Colgate-Palmolive · 2 days ago
Research Scientist
Piscataway, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$77K/yr - $108K/yr
1+ years expColgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company specializing in various personal care and household products. As a Research Scientist, you will work on skin care innovation and new product formulation, collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring new products to market and ensure compliance with formulation requirements.
BeautyConsumer GoodsHealthcareWellnessHealth CarePersonal Care and Hygiene
Responsibilities
Develop and implement premium skin care products including cleanser, sunscreens, and anti-aging products from idea to scale-up by working together with extended R&D team and Contract Manufacturers, ensuring the development of the product meets all formulation requirements and successful scalability
Support pre and post-launch activities for the premium skin care products including claims substantiation and formula/ processing optimization
Collects, evaluates and communicates all data collected internally and externally from stability, efficacy and clinical testing and collaborates with Regulatory towards global registration, claims and Quality compliance
Manage stability program by ensuring all testing and analysis is done in time to support OTC documentation both internally as well as external collection of data
Work with internal and external cross-functional teams in Research & Development, Marketing, Supply Chain to support and/ or develop new technologies and products
Interpret and communicate experimental results to technical and non-technical business partners
Manage internal (ie peers, marketing) and external (ie suppliers, labs, researchers) partnerships and communication (i.e., Suppliers) through data sharing and project updates
Lead key partnerships and communication through data sharing and project updates
Complies with all policies and standards
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Physical Sciences or related science
At least 1 year of formulation experience in Skin Care/ Sun Care product development
Experience in managing projects requiring OTC stability
Experience in formulating cleansers, sunscreens, emulsions, serums
Experience in successfully scaling up a formulation for launch
Product formulation, evaluation and testing experience and passion about lab experimentation
Strong communication skills
Leadership skills in working with teams, project partners and external contract manufacturers
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic life insurance
Paid parental leave
Disability coverage
Participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements
A minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days
13 paid holidays
Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws.
Company
Colgate-Palmolive
Make More Smiles.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15.15MKey Investors
SMILE HealthThird PointVontobel
2023-08-08Non Equity Assistance
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2021-03-16Post Ipo Equity· $15.15M
Leadership Team
Prabha Narasimhan
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Stephan Habif
Chief Technology Officer
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