Senior Scientist, Product Development - Soft Chew and Lozenges

Position Summary

Catalent 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 required

The 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 Holidays