Senior Research and Development Scientist

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. 

Greendale is one of Catalent’s gummy technology development and manufacturing facilities in North America. The site manufactures organic and vegan-based nutraceuticals via confection to enhance wellness for all consumers.  Simply put – we make healthy gummies. Within the Catalent network, we offer a broad range of integrated formulation and analytical services to solve difficult development and manufacturing challenges.

Reporting to the Director Product Development, the Senior Scientist will provide and utilize technical direction and expertise throughout the entire development process with focus on pre-formulation studies, formulation and process development, optimization studies, and informal and formal stability studies. Complex formulations and process parameters will be solved by this key position. The Senior Scientist will have an advanced knowledge of various aspects of implementing the development process of dietary supplement gummies in a regulated environment, including topics such as Quality by Design (QbD), Design of Experiment (DOE), and compliance with all regulatory guidelines. Senior Scientist will be responsible for defining development studies, authoring, and approving protocols and reports, investigations, laboratory work, providing technical expertise, and support on multiple projects in the portfolio all while maintaining a patient first culture. Senior Scientist will be responsible for using formulation expertise to guide and support peers through development studies.

The Role

• Plan, coordinate, drive, and guide the development and evaluation of new products, including pre-formulation excipient compatibility studies, formulation development, process development, support process validation and scale-up manufacturing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to individuals, functional area and overall organization as required
• Ensure appropriate technical review and oversight for portfolio projects/programs as required
• Effectively communicate on a timely basis with management, other departments within Catalent as well as customers on the coordination of development activities, results, and next posed steps of the studies
• Operate under and maintain GMP/GLP, health and safety conditions and practices.
• Maintain and improve compliance with training, best practices, safety, and cleaning requirements
• Represent functional area and projects by leading discussions at local, technical, governance, executive and customer meetings.
• Lead Catalent’s strategies, initiatives, expectations, processes, and portfolio commitments
• Must be able to work extended hours, weekends as needed, especially when problems occur or when deadlines must be met
• Perform other duties as required

The Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, food engineering, pharmaceutical science or related field
• 7+ years relevant experience in food preparation/food industry (preferably in the confectionary industry) or M.S. in food science, food engineering or related field
• Demonstrated leadership in product development of supplements and confection. 
• Experience working in a dietary supplement manufacturing, food and/or pharmaceutical facility.
• Experience developing confectionery based products.
• Familiarity with typical formulation and analytical approaches for dietary supplement development
• Requires experience in troubleshooting and problem solving
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential in dealing with people at all levels and in a variety of functional areas; able to influence and motivate others to quickly achieve results
• The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and is frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• The employee is required to sit, climb or balance and taste or smell.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
• Diverse, inclusive culture
• 152 hours of paid time off + 8 paid holidays
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
• Competitive salary with quarterly bonus potential
• Community engagement and green initiatives
• Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
• Tuition Reimbursement

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

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