Scientist, Pharmaceutical Science​/ Research

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number #175685 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Our team is looking for a Scientist to develop and implement new Oral Care formulas for North America.

• Develop and implementation new oral care formulas for North America

• Lead experimental designs to help identity launch formulations and production processes.

• Make lab and pilot batches of formulations for stability testing and customer sampling.

• Support Pilot Plant batches by preparing batch sheets, requesting raw materials, pre-weighing materials and batch execution.

• Support plant trial batches at various North America locations as needed.

• Manage multiple stability studies at the lab, pilot and plant scale, working with support groups (analytical, flavor, micro, etc) to deliver samples and follow up on results.

• Create/maintain all required R&D documentation to ensure flawless, high quality commercialization. This may include R&D project timelines, formula databases, tech transfer checklists, proof of claims documents, registration documents, NODs, change control documents and technical justifications.

• Create and maintain all required documentation under GMP/GLP per FDA/ICH guidelines as required.

• Maintain a clean and organized working environment.

• Work on multiple tasks with changing priorities.

• Make day-to-day recommendations and elevate issues regarding formula development.

• Stay abreast of supplier and competitor’s new developments.

• Abide by and follow all company standard operating procedures (SOPs) including those for product development, regulatory and safety.

• Deliver effective presentations of technical data and project status.

• Bachelor’s in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Food Science or related fields.

• 1-2 years of experience in formulation development and technical implementation with a consumer goods environment.

• Experience scaling up formulations from the lab through pilot or manufacturing scale.

• Technical understanding of related chemistry and science (for example: active deliveries, emulsions, surfactants, rheology, liquid chemistry)

• Strong knowledge of ingredient chemistry to be able to understand how the interdependencies and interactions of raw material components affect formulation and process performance

• Knowledge of cGMP /GMP and GLP

• Knowledge of equipment and procedures for making oral care formulations

• Experience running stability studies for OTC/Drug products

• Experience & understanding of producing formulations at the manufacturing scale.

• Experience with claim substantiation.

• Strong project planning and management experience

• Knowledge of Regulatory environment in North America and across the globe

• Knowledge of ICH/FDA guidelines for stability and testing of new drug products

• Able to multi-task and coordinate various simultaneous projects

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Self-motivated but able to work well within a team environment

• Excellent computer skills (MS Office, Google suite, SAP, etc.)

Salary Range $70,000.00 - $96,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience,…