Stability Development Senior Chemist

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We are a collective of disrupters and doers, of creatives and scientists, with a mission to reimagine the world of beauty. Since inception, our vertically integrated structure—including our own laboratories, manufacturing, retail stores, and brand infrastructure—has enabled us to rapidly identify opportunities and deliver quality. Home to The Ordinary, NIOD, AVESTAN, and other emerging brands, we create with purpose and believe normal gets you nowhere.

The Senior Stability Development Chemist is responsible for the design, execution, monitoring, interpretation, and reporting of stability studies in support of product development, commercialization, and lifecycle management activities. This role provides scientific and technical expertise for stability programs across cosmetic and OTC products, ensuring compliance with internal procedures, cGMP requirements, and applicable regulatory guidelines including ICH, USP, ISO, and Health Canada expectations.

The Senior Stability Chemist collaborates cross‑functionally with Formulation, Analytical Development, Packaging, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and external laboratories to resolve complex challenges, support product shelf‑life determination, packaging compatibility assessments, investigation activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Recruitment: 6‑month contract with potential to go permanent. Position will be based out of our Head Office located in Liberty Village and requires candidates to be on‑site, 5‑days a week.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $85,000 to $90,000. Exact salary depends on factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location.

• Lead the design, execution, monitoring, and continuous optimization of stability programs in compliance with approved protocols, internal procedures, and global regulatory requirements including ICH, USP, ISO, Health Canada, FDA, and EU guidelines.
• Maintain oversight of stability chambers, sample inventories, reagents, reference standards, and laboratory equipment records to ensure operational readiness and compliance.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and inspection readiness initiatives by providing technical expertise and compliant documentation.
• Analyze and interpret stability data to support shelf‑life assignments, expiry extensions, reformulations, packaging modifications, transportation/storage assessments, and product lifecycle management decisions.
• Author, review, and approve stability protocols, technical reports, trend analyses, scientific justifications, risk assessments, and shelf‑life extension evaluations.
• Conduct comprehensive statistical trending and stability data analysis to proactively identify emerging risks, out‑of‑trend (OOT), and out‑of‑specification (OOS) results and ensure accurate, complete, and contemporaneous documentation practices in accordance with cGMP, GDP, ALCOA+, and data integrity requirements.
• Perform and oversee advanced physical, chemical, and functional characterization testing including appearance, color, odor, texture, pH, viscosity, rheology, specific gravity, assay, degradation profiling, preservative efficacy, and active quantitation using analytical techniques such as HPLC/UPLC‑UV/PDA, UV‑Vis, FTIR, titration, and wet chemistry methodologies.
• Evaluate packaging compatibility, container closure integrity, and potential leachable/extractables risks ensuring product quality, safety, and stability throughout the intended shelf life.
• Drive the development, optimization, validation, verification, transfer, and troubleshooting of stability‑indicating analytical methods to support robust and reliable stability programs.
• Partner closely with Formulation Scientists to resolve complex formulation stability challenges by developing scientifically sound stability strategies, interpreting data trends, driving root cause investigations, and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).
• Champion innovative stability initiatives that enhance formulation development through…