Job Context & Challenges for Research Scientist – Analytical Science:
Responsible for effective execution of planned stability projects, routine analysis and providing analytical expertise to local and global product development teams and manufacturing sites. The incumbent is also responsible for promoting ideas, making technical recommendations and developing and validating analytical methods for troubleshooting in analytical instrumentation. Additionally, the position is responsible for ensuring documentation & sharing of technical knowledge across departments and geographies to promote creative technical ideas and recommendations.
Key Accountabilities:
Analytical Sciences
- Provide Analytical expertise to Oral Care and Personal care stability projects , global and local analytical and product development project teams and to manufacturing sites across geographies
- Perform and report the results of routine analysis and analytical method validations using Analytical Instrumentation in a cGMP environment.
- Develop, optimize and validate analytical methods. Solve problems and apply troubleshooting to analytical instrumentation.
- Catalogue reference standards/chemical inventory & verify data integrity (logbooks/eLN)
Operational Excellence
- Demonstrate mastery of knowledge in the identified scientific field.
- Stay abreast of the latest technical developments and breakthroughs by drawing on industry contacts, scientific literature, conferences, and patent filings.
- Build on technical expertise, expanding it in complementary directions.
- Use technical expertise and creativity to proactively identify potential problems and address them using appropriate resources.
- Share internal and external technical knowledge discoveries, ideas, and vision with colleagues through documentation, presentations, publications, and patents.
- Drive initiatives to simplify and improve technical processes.
- Integrate technological breakthroughs and consumer insights to develop products, innovative technologies, creative approaches, or new processes.
- Translate technical attributes into simple, consumer-relevant benefits and concepts.
- Utilize statistical approaches to experimental design to maximize learning with the least amount of time and with minimum resources.
- Drive all margin improvement programs to improve bottom line.
- Be 100% compliant to all Product Safety, Quality, and Regulatory requirements to operate with cost-effectiveness and speed.
- Practice good documentation practices.
Experience:
Essential: Worked as an analytical development scientist with a large multinational FMCG or Pharma organization with experience in managing business support. Sound experience in managing FDA and CGMP protocols with larger teams.
Desirable: Exposure to FDA & cGMP protocols
No of yrs. of Exp. required: minimum 7 yrs.
Professional Qualifications & Training:
Essential: Analytical OR Inorganic /Analytical Chemistry OR Instrumental Chemistry or similar qualifications.
M.Sc. Analytical / Bio analytical Chemistry with a strong expertise in mass spectroscopy
Desirable:
- Hands-on experience of operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of sophisticated mass spectrometers preferably: Agilent QQQ or Thermo HRMS.
- Identification, quantification, and structural characterization of known and unknown compounds/markers in natural extracts and their subsequent identification from cosmetic formulas.
- Ability to read quality publications and replicate results/findings using mass spectroscopy (both LCMS/MS and GCMS).
- Apply strong know-how to solve complex problems in the Mass Spec field, while designing experiments for sound external collaborations for use of QTRAP/QTOF.
- Support forced degradation studies on natural extracts and formulated prototypes in order to increase understanding of degradation mechanisms and pathways.
- Provide mass spectrometry support to interdepartmental colleagues and partners, and seamlessly integrate with the global thematic community.
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