Lead personal-care and consumer-product development programs from concept and feasibility through scale-up, validation, and commercialization.
Formulate and troubleshoot products, initially working hands-on to develop practical expertise in aerosol systems, packaging, processing, and manufacturing.
Own technical decisions, experimental strategy, risk assessment, and recommendations for assigned development programs.
Establish and standardize R&D best practices, SOPs, technical procedures, documentation standards, and structured product-development methods.
Apply disciplined experimental design and data-based decision-making to improve development speed, robustness, and technical confidence.
Mentor chemists through technical coaching, project guidance, review of experimental work, and practical problem-solving.
Lead customer-facing development projects, technical presentations, product and process assessments, and feasibility evaluations.
Support proposals and technical sales by translating customer needs into credible development plans, resource requirements, risks, and commercialization pathways.
Solve complex formulation, stability, compatibility, scale-up, and manufacturing challenges in partnership with Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Sales, and customers.
Develop product specifications, master formulas, manufacturing instructions, test methods, stability protocols, and technical transfer packages.
Assess new technologies, raw materials, packaging systems, and development opportunities that can strengthen R&D capabilities and support growth.
Challenge existing practices where needed and help define the longer-term technical direction of the R&D group.
Bachelor's degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, formulation science, or a related scientific discipline.
Approximately 5-10 years of progressive formulation and product-development experience in personal care, cosmetics, consumer products, or a related industry.
Deep practical knowledge of formulation, raw-material selection, testing, stability, scale-up, manufacturing, and technical transfer.
Demonstrated record of taking products from concept through commercialization.
Experience leading complex technical projects and making sound decisions with incomplete or evolving information.
Ability to mentor other technical professionals and raise the quality of their experimental work, documentation, and problem-solving.
Strong customer-facing communication skills and ability to explain technical issues, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly.
Commercial awareness and ability to balance technical performance, manufacturability, timing, cost, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
Comfort working in a fast-moving contract manufacturing environment where priorities may shift and practical execution matters.
