Principal Scientist - Skin Care Product Implementation Leader

Principal Scientist
- Skin Care Product Implementation Leader Job Alerts Link Job Description

Colgate-Palmolive's Skin Health group is a place for your career to thrive! We offer opportunity, challenge, and a great team of driven and dynamic individuals. Encompassing the innovative skincare brands of PCA SKIN, EltaMD, and Filorga, we are a fast-paced, agile organization dedicated to providing skin care solutions that are backed by science.

For more than 30 years. PCA SKIN® has been and continues to be a trusted innovator in the development of highly effective professional treatments and daily care products. Our vision is to improve people’s lives by providing results-oriented skin care solutions that are backed by science for the health of your unique skin.

EltaMD made the journey to the US in 1988. Backed by science and a deep medical heritage, what started as a little Swiss secret quickly became the trusted choice for wound care and healing products by hospitals and physicians around the world. In 2007, we expanded from healing skin to include protecting skin with the launch of our cosmetically elegant line of sunscreens.

Today, we are the number one trusted, recommended and personally used professional sunscreen by Dermatologists in the US.

Filorga was the 1st French aesthetic medicine laboratory founded in 1978. The brand has expanded its expertise in aesthetic medicine by providing to the general public a range of revolutionary cosmetic products formulated with NCEF, a unique compound encapsulating in topical application the same ingredients used in injections. More than fifty cosmetic products have become available over time, all of which share the same principle: to combine optimal and clinically proven effectiveness with sensorial textures and premium packaging.

Our brands are professionally recommended all over the world.

We are part of the Colgate-Palmolive family, which provides our team with domestic and global career growth opportunities in all departments. Our rich benefits includes giving employees access to our amazing skin care products!

Job Title:

Principal Scientist
- Skin Care Product Implementation Leader

Travel Required:

Travel - up to 10% of time
Posting

Start Date:

8/25/26

Location:

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number: 175751
Work Type:
On-site

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.

We are on the lookout for a Leader of PCA Skin Implementation R&D team which consists of 2 product development scientists and a case study leader. In this role you will be delivering innovation in skin care to the dermocosmetic market which includes professional products tailored to aestheticians and dermatologists for superior efficacy in key strategic pillars such as anti‑aging, longevity, and regeneration.

This role reports directly to the CP Skin Health R&D Leader located in the Piscataway, NJ Global Technology Center.

• Lead the implementation of new professional products and technologies including skin care products such as serums, creams, sunscreens.
• Actively participate in and lead cross-functional teams including R&D, marketing, insights, clinical, safety, regulatory to develop and validate new concepts and products and ensure flawless implementation and commercialization of these products.
• Manage a case study program to provide efficacy data, claim substantiation, and benefit support for new and existing products.
• Create and/or maintain all required documentation such as Project Timelines, SOP’s, Registration documents, Tech Transfer checklists, NODs, Change Control…