Research and Development Scientist

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. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

Our Manassas, Virginia site is a part of the Consumer Health division and provides expanded capabilities in soft chews and 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 Research and Development Scientist will initiate, coordinate, and implement new product initiatives on new and existing products. This position will work with procurement, quality assurance, production, marketing, as well as suppliers and customers to effectively develop products. The Research and Development Scientist will create product formulation, scale-up, labelling, select raw materials, and more. This position is responsible all documentation from ideation to product launch and product maintenance.

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:

• Organize daily activities based on business priorities provided by R&D Director.

• Maintain accurate records of R&D materials, equipment and samples stored in all R&D areas according to established practices and procedures.

• Maintain accurate laboratory and project work documentation.

• Maintain clean and organized laboratory work environment including supplies inventory and maintenance, and routine cleaning

• Prepare samples for shipment to customers.

• Formulate and create bench top samples for presentation to inside and outside customers, while maintaining awareness of current plant process capabilities.

• Engage in the troubleshooting and recommendation/ modifications to existing product formula’s and/or processes to improve productivity, quality, and/or product cost.

• Support and participate in plant line trials and production start-ups

• Support Sales and Marketing channels with customer presentations. This requires formal “customer facing” in a professional manner with a sound working knowledge of company products, processes, and capabilities.

• All other duties assigned

The Candidate:

• B.S. in Food Science, Food Engineering or related field required

• 3+ years relevant experience in food preparation/food industry (preferably in the confectionary industry)

• Demonstrated leadership in one or more of the areas of R&D or QA

• Ability to work with cross functional departments within the organization

• Problem solving, verbal, communication, and listening skills, excellent analytical and decision-making abilities; good presentation skills

• Customer Service communication skills

• Strong computer skills using Microsoft Office Programs

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 35 pounds

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and is frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear

• The employee is required to sit, climb or balance and taste or smell

Why you should join Catalent:

• Diverse, inclusive culture

• 152 hours of accrued paid time off + 8 paid holidays

• Competitive salary

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

• Educational assistance/reimbursement

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Fitness center and wellness programs

• Flexible spending account

• Employee discount programs

• Robust employee referral program

Catalent 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.

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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 DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com . 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.

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