Sr Scientist - Advanced Pre-formulation and Modelling

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role  

This role reports into the Site and Capability team.

In this role you will serve as a Senior Scientist in the R&D Product Chemistry Group reporting to the group Director.  The purpose of this R&D global support group is to gain insight on how our product chemistry links to product performance.  Here we support our formulation teams in early-stage product development with an eye toward exploiting the chemistry/performance link toward product claims and performance visualizations.  Additionally, this product chemistry understanding is used to assist our regulatory and legal partners speak to the safety and efficacy of our product.   

Role Responsibilities 

• Utilize mass spectrometry and allied techniques (i.e. NMR, IR spectroscopy) to characterize structure and ascertain interactions of formulation ingredients  

• Design sample preparation strategies to isolate analyte of interest from multi-component dosage forms including viscous liquids, gels, ointments, creams and solids 

• Perform trace analysis using mass spectrometry with various combinations of chromatography and other hyphenated techniques 

• Perform routine maintenance on mass spectrometry instruments to ensure consistent performance 

• Design and execute characterization strategies to support regulatory submissions, patent applications and claims substantiation 

• Engage in problem solving activities by interpreting data sets from multiple characterization approaches  

• Justify the meaning of experimental data as it applies to product development milestone achievement 

Other Responsibilities  

Business Awareness – Understand the basic utility of allied functions in R&D, Quality and Commercial so as to actively bring our science forward when opportunities present 

Critical Thinking

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Have a well-rounded understanding of the product development process and be able to apply problem solving methodologies to unexpected technical issues. 

• Demonstrated experience writing technical reports and communicating