Senior Scientist, Product Development - Soft Chew and Lozenges

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Manassas
Posted on: November 7, 2024

Job Description:

Senior Scientist, Product Development - Soft Chew and Lozenges Position SummaryCatalent 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. Manassas provides expanded capabilities in soft chews and lozenges. The site has the capability to manufacture cold-processed soft chews for nutritional supplements and nutraceuticals, as well as small batch lozenges. With extensive development and manufacturing expertise and a wide range of flavors, ingredients, and colors available, we can work with complex formulations to help create engaging new products consumers will love.The Senior Scientist will provide and utilize technical direction and expertise throughout the entire product development process with focus on pre-formulation studies, process optimization studies, and stability studies. The Senior Scientist will have an advanced knowledge of various aspects of implementing the dietary supplement development process in a regulated environment, including topics such as Quality by Design (QbD), Design of Experiment (DOE), and compliance with all regulatory guidelines.Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.The Role

• Plan, coordinate, drive, and guide the development and evaluation of new products, including pre-formulation excipient selection and compatibility studies, formulation development, process development/optimization 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 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 requiredThe Candidate
  • Bachelor's Degree in Science or related field required. Master's Degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in a formulation role in a lab setting required; 3+ years of experience with soft confectionary formats, particularly chew and/or lozenge formats
  • Experience working in a dietary supplement, confection and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing and/or GMP facility; expertise in soft chew and lozenge technologies for dietary supplement development
  • While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel and to manipulate keys on a keyboard. Use of manual dexterity is required. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, bend or twist, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.Why You Should Join Catalent
    • Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I--
    • Potential for career growth within an expanding team
    • Diverse, inclusive culture
    • 152 hours of PTO + 8 Paid HolidaysCatalent 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.--personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.Visit to explore career opportunities.Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to . This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.--------Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers:Catalent NEVER asks candidates to provide any type of payment, bank details, photocopies of identification, social security number or other highly sensitive personal information during the offer process, and we NEVER do so via email or social media. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond- it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to spam@catalent.com for us to investigate with local authorities.California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice .

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