Herbalife Formulation Scientist For Pharma Candidates – Apply Online
Sr Associate Scientist, Formulation
Category: Research & Development
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
External ID: 9407
Location: Bangalore, KA, India
Overview
This position is responsible for formulating and developing a wide range of Inner Nutritional Products for Herbalife’s regional Inner Nutritional product lines. The key responsibilities include planning and executing technical transfer projects in the assigned regions to ensure product quality, costs, safety, and uniformity. The position reports to the R&D Regional Lead and interacts with the Regional R&D and cross-functional team members to provide area expertise and technical leadership on commercial scale-up of inner Nutritional products. The Scientist may also support operation improvement, cost savings, and new ingredient qualification as needed.
Detailed Responsibilities/Duties
- Develop and formulate Inner Nutrition Products in the area of food, Beverage & Nutraceuticals, manage timelines to achieve regional Inner Nutrition Products goals.
- Create and launch a series of new products (from concept development to commercialization) on a regular basis.
- Generate samples utilizing a controlled environment with a well-documented process.
- Work with various teams to create and present concepts up to and including full commercialization.
- Create formula-process instructions for Master Batch Records.
- Collaborate with various team members to create Raw material & product specifications for QC testing/development of labeling specifications/creation of applicable technical information dossiers.
- Participate with Regulatory to present/discuss product dossiers with government regulatory entities.
- Work with production teams-others to ensure that formula and processes are scaled up to optimum production levels (assist in education and training of production/others).
- Lead/Participate in plant trials of New/Tech transfer of products, including approving and releasing samples from the trial for submission to Technical (R&D-Tech Ops-Quality) providing full documentation.
- Introduce new technical innovations.
- Ability to assess existing process challenges, implementing continuous improvement enhancements with creative and innovative problem-solving skills/new concepts.
- Understand regulatory issues/needs/basic nutrition.
- Evaluate new raw materials for inclusion in new products or existing products to achieve savings or functional improvements.
- Ability to evaluate other products and provide benchmark analysis/feedback.
- Participate in qualification of Contract manufacturers/Co-Packers.
- Assist in the presentation of new products to marketing (regional and corporate).
- Provide support for label development, nutritional content, following creative and innovative problem-solving skills.
- Able to manage projects while multitasking under pressure with short timelines.
- Understand and follow India regulatory guidelines and specs.
- Willing to travel to Manufacturing site to run Pilot trial/scale up trial/to support Manufacturing for first few batches as and when required.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Yes
Required Qualifications
Skills:
- Experience with all food, Beverage & Nutraceutical Dosage format like Powder, Beverage, Snacks, Gummies & solid dose.
- Experience and knowledge on food, Beverage & Nutraceutical.
- Excellent written-oral communication skills to be able to interface at local level/region/corporate.
- Excellent team leader/member skill sets, ability to work with all staff levels.
- Excellent computer software skills (MS Word, Excel/PLM) and other operating systems.
- Project management skills, including excellent organization, detail orientation and follow through.
- Excellent written-oral communication skills to be able to interface at local level/region/corporate.
Experience: 4-6 Years of full-time Product development in Inner Nutrition Products/food industry. Formula design, Plant trial, commercial scale up, or production line supervision.
Education: B Pharma/B Tech/MS in Pharmaceuticals/Food Science/Food Technology – Formulation & Product Development
Preferred Qualifications
5 to 8 years of full-time R&D formulation & Product Innovation in a multi-national Company.
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