Job Summary

Provide senior individual-contributor technical leadership for OTC formulation science, product design, development, scale-up, technology transfer, regulatory technical support, and lifecycle management across consumer healthcare products and dosage forms.

The Principal Scientist, OTC Formulation is a individual-contributor technical authority responsible for shaping formulation strategy and resolving complex technical challenges across OTC consumer healthcare development programs. The role reports to the Senior Principal Scientist, OTC Product Development / Formulation Science, and operates through technical depth, cross-functional influence, senior review, governance, and mentorship rather than direct line management.

Responsibilities

1. Formulation and Product Development

- Define formulation strategy and technical development approach for complex OTC products across relevant consumer healthcare categories.
- Translate consumer, commercial, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing requirements into robust target product profiles and formulation strategies.
- Provide senior technical leadership for dosage-form design, pre-formulation, excipient selection, active compatibility, product performance, and risk-based formulation decisions.
- Resolve complex formulation challenges including palatability, dose delivery, solubility, dissolution, rheology, microbial robustness, preservative effectiveness, packaging interaction, and stability.
- Embed QbD, design of experiments, critical quality attributes, critical process parameters, control strategy, and technical risk management into development programs.

2. Technical Leadership and Delivery

- Ensure formulation decisions support consumer experience, labelled use, dose delivery, product performance, and OTC self-care suitability.
- Partner with Medical, Regulatory,



Claims, Consumer Science, Commercial, Quality, Packaging, Supply, and external partners to support evidence readiness and product delivery.
- Provide technical review of formulation rationale, development data, stability conclusions, regulatory technical content, and lifecycle change assessments.
- Contribute to innovation, external technology assessment, competitive benchmarking, design-to-value, productivity, sustainability, and lifecycle improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

- Master's degree in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent senior technical experience may be considered.
- Typically 8-10+ years of formulation, product development, or technical leadership experience in OTC, consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other regulated product environments.
- Demonstrated accountability for formulation strategy, technical problem solving, and delivery of multiple products, platforms, dosage forms, or lifecycle programs.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, work with external partners, and coach or mentor scientists through technical authority rather than formal line-management authority.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting multiple geographic markets, APAC regulatory environments, or OTC monograph/local-standard frameworks.
- Experience with pain, respiratory, allergy,



gastrointestinal, dermatology, wellness, or adjacent self-care categories.
- Experience with contract development or manufacturing organizations, external laboratories, packaging partners, or external innovation partners.
- Knowledge of QbD, design of experiments, technical risk assessment, design-to-value, sustainability, and structured problem-solving tools.

Core Competencies

- Strategic formulation leadership and advanced scientific judgment.
- Complex technical problem solving and risk-based decision making.
- Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management.
- Explicit technical communication, documentation, and governance mindset.
- Knowledge sharing, and capability building as an individual contributor.
- Consumer-focused innovation, business acumen, and continuous improvement mindset.

Key Performance Indicators

- Quality and impact of formulation strategy, technical direction, and risk-based decisions.
- Delivery of key technical milestones across development, scale-up, launch, and lifecycle programs.
- Robustness, stability, manufacturability, scalability, and consumer acceptability of developed products.
- Resolution of complex formulation, process, analytical, packaging, stability, and manufacturing issues.
- Quality of technical documentation, regulatory support, control strategy, and lifecycle change assessments.
- Contribution to innovation, productivity, sustainability, external technology assessment, and formulation-science capability building.

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