Product Development Scientist,

The Product Development Scientist, Health & Wellbeing will be responsible for supporting the development of the best-in-class formulations to aid the growth ambition for the Health & Wellbeing–specifically in relation to new product development and new market entry and the establishment of an external ecosystem technical partners / capability. The role will have cross-functional interactions and coordination across Marketing, Supply chain, SEAC, Quality, Regulatory and external Contract labs & Raw material suppliers to ensure timely delivery of the objectives.

The role will be required to provide technical support related to formulation development and would cover a broad range of challenges –from designing consumer preferred robust formulas, to developing raw material and finished product spec, scaling up by leveraging external Contract labs and Collaborative manufacturers.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support Formulation design work for innovations to deliver superior, design to value and consumer winning products.
• Work seamlessly with other R&D functions (packaging, Consumer Technical Insights, processing, regulatory teams) to ensure delivery on assigned projects.
• Ensuring statutory regulatory & legal compliances for products & process.
• Responsible for identifying and establishing appropriate technology for manufacturing products to specification at lab-scale and pilot-scale.
• Responsible for scaling up to factory with relevant transfer of technology documentation and training factory team.
• Responsible for specification, formulation, process, pack, and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.
• Provide support to conduct shelf-life studies to establish shelf-life of new products and / or intervene through formulation / recipes to enhance shelf-life.
• Use appropriate analytical techniques (either existing or develop new techniques) to characterize key physical attributes of the product.
• Appreciating and engaging with marketing team constantly for insights and translating them into product properties & performance.
• Anticipate assessment and minimization of environmental, safety, regulatory, PR and competitive challenges.
• Build and maintain strong networks with cross functional (Brand, CMI, SC, CQA etc) teams.

KEY EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Bachelor’s degree required in Pharmacy / Science. Master’s degree (Science / Pharmaceutics / Industrial Pharmacy) would be preferred.