2026 Intern: Formulation Product Development (12 weeks, June 2026 start)

Hi. We’re Haleon. A world-leading consumer healthcare company with exceptional category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Centrum, Panadol, Otrivin. We have a clear purpose: to deliver better everyday health with humanity. For billions of people around the globe.

A career in our Technical Center of Excellence where none of us stand still.

The Technical Center of Excellence Maintenance Team ensures the business continuity of our commercial products through the resolution of technical issues due to raw material or processing changes. This includes both analytical and practical experiments to probe how changes in raw materials or manufacturing processes could impact the final product. This team also aids with product investigations when unforeseen issues arise during manufacturing. Our purpose is to address complex technical challenges by providing expert recommendations backed by trusted science such that our customers have the best information available to ensure efficient fulfilment of high-quality products. The team has access to lab and pilot scale facilities to test and investigate material properties of ingredients and products as well as prepare ingredients and products for feasibility, sensory, or regulatory filing studies. We strive to be a trusted central resource on hand to support the business units and manufacturing sites when additional technical resources are needed to maintain our commercial products on the market. Our motto is: ‘Outstanding Customer Service through Brilliant Science.’

What will your individual contribution at Haleon be?

• Investigate and understand material attributes that drive product robustness.
• Understand regulatory context and constraints around material use in dietary supplement, food, and pharmaceutical oral solid dose forms.
• Measure raw material physical/chemical properties and correlate properties to product manufacture suitability.
• Identify optimal manufacturing process for powder sizing which yields acceptable performance in flow, compression, and storage of material.
• Conduct experimentation in lab scale equipment to assess different process and material inputs on product properties and performance.
• Plan and organize DOEs to identify key material attributes and how they impact product properties and performance.
• Document derived technical understanding for both R&D and Quality Supply Chain use in identifying better performing materials.

We’re the people changing the future of everyday health. So you will be someone who has:

• Creative and problem-solving thinking

• Strategic/big-picture thinking
• Entrepreneurial and agile mindset
• Strong prioritization and analytical skills
• Personal accountability
• Business and consumer/customer knowledge and understanding
• Adaptability and resilience in ambiguity
• A desire to learn and have meaningful impact

To enable you to perform in this future talent opportunity:

The following education backgrounds are preferred:

• Materials Science / Engineering
• Pharmaceutical or Food Sciences
• Chemical or Biomedical Engineering
• Chemistry or Biochemistry

The role will provide an opportunity to learn material formulation practices (pharmaceutical and dietary supplement chemistry and regulatory aspects) and unit operations utilizing engineering principles with applications to powder, granulation, compression, and solid oral dose product technology. You will have hands on experience with several different unit operations at lab scale including: mixing, granulation, powder sizing, drying, and compression operations. You will also experience material and product testing, and be exposed to associated lab and study documentation requirements. You will have opportunities to present the outcome of your work.

Expected start date: June 2026

We invite you to apply as soon as possible. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity. And we are joined by new talent, every day. We accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.

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