Research And Development Manager

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE HANDS-ON R&D/FORMULATION EXPERIENCE IN NUTRACEUTICALS, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, OR COMPLEX SOLID-DOSE PRODUCTS.

Location: On-site | New Jersey region

Comp: Competitive base, bonus and benefits (Dependent on experience)

I am partnering with a technically advanced nutraceutical contract manufacturing business to hire an R&D Manager/Senior Manager, R&D.

This is not a food science, beverage, sensory, or brand-only innovation role.

The business develops complex dietary supplement products across challenging dosage forms, materials, and delivery systems. The role needs someone who understands formulation, manufacturability, scale-up, troubleshooting, and the realities of moving products from lab concept into commercial production.

This could suit an experienced R&D Manager or an exceptionally strong Senior Scientist, Technical Manager, or similar profile ready to step into a broader leadership role within the R&D function.

• Lead R&D activity across complex nutraceutical and dietary supplement products.
• Support formulation development, scale-up, troubleshooting, and commercialization.
• Work across tablets, capsules, powders, beadlets, stick packs, or similar solid-dose/supplement formats.
• Partner closely with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, operations, and commercial teams.
• Help solve technical challenges around granulation, powder behaviour, flowability, compressibility, stability, coating, taste/odor masking, and release profile.
• Guide, coach, and develop formulation scientists and R&D associates.
• Bring structure, urgency, and technical judgement to a busy product development environment.

• Technical depth:
  Work on products that many manufacturers would avoid due to complexity.
• Impact:
  Sit close to senior R&D leadership and play a visible role in product development, scale-up, and commercialization.
• Progression: A strong step-up opportunity for someone ready to move from senior technical contributor into broader R&D leadership.
• Variety:
  Exposure to challenging supplement formats, difficult materials, and advanced delivery approaches.
• Minimum 6 to 10 years of experience in nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, VMS, private label supplements, CDMO, CMO, or complex solid-dose product development.
• Minimum of 2 to 4 years of leadership/management experience.
• Hands‑on formulation and development experience across tablets, capsules, powders, beadlets, or similar dosage forms.
• Strong understanding of scale‑up, manufacturability, and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working closely with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and operations teams.
• Able to work on‑site in the New Jersey region.
• Thorough understanding of cGMPs, FDA regulations, dietary supplement regulations, and product development processes.
• Master’s degree in Pharma, Chemistry, Food Science, Chemical Engineering, or a similar scientific discipline required. A combination of education and experience may also be considered if a Master’s degree has not been achieved.

• Nutraceutical CDMO or private label supplement manufacturing experience.
• Material science exposure, especially granulation, powder behaviour, flowability, compressibility, stability, dissolution, or release.
• Experience with modified release, delayed release, extended release, ODTs, mini‑tabs, coating, taste masking, odor masking, probiotics, or moisture‑sensitive actives.
• Pharmaceutical, pharmacy, pharmaceutics, chemistry, material science, or related degree.
• Prior leadership, mentoring, or people management experience.
• Experience taking products from lab development through pilot, scale‑up, tech transfer, and commercial launch.

Apply directly and/or DM me on Linked In or send me an email to:

Please include your current location, right to work in the US, compensation expectations, notice period, and a brief note on the dosage forms/product formats you have worked on.

Note:

Pure food science, beverage, dairy, bakery, snack, sensory‑led NPD, pure brand‑side innovation, and pure pharma candidates without relevant oral solid‑dose/formulation/scale‑up experience are unlikely to be suitable for this search.