Associate Scientist, Formulation

Overview:
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Herbalife is a global nutrition company that has helped people pursue a healthy, active life since 1980. Our nutrition, weight-management and personal care products are available exclusively through dedicated independent Distributors in more than 80 countries. Our Mission is to change people’s lives by providing the best business opportunity in direct selling and the best nutrition and weight-management products in the world.

STATEMENT:
This position to formulate /develop wide range of Inner Nutritional Products and execute the technical requirement for Herbalife’s regional Inner Nutritional product lines. The position accountabilities include planning and executing technical transfer projects in the assigned regions to meet product quality, costs, safety and uniformity. The position reports to the R&D Regional Lead. Additionally, the Scientist interact with the Regional R&D and regional cross functional team members and provides area expertise and technical leadership on commercial scale up of inner Nutritional product. As required, the individual will also support including but not limited to operation improvement, cost savings, and new ingredient qualification.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:

- Develop & formulate Inner Nutrition Products in the area of food, Beverage & Nutraceuticals, manage timelines to achieve regional Inner Nutrition Products goals.
- Create and launch a series of new products (from concept development to commercialization) on a regular basis.
- Generate samples utilizing a controlled environment w/well documented process
- Work with various teams to create and present concepts up to and including full commercialization
- Sales/Marketing/Regulatory/Licensing/Quality/Production/Procurement/Contract Manufacturers
- Create formula-process instructions for Master Batch Records
- Collaborate with various team members to create Raw material & product specifications for QC testing/development of labelling specifications/creation of applicable technical information dossiers.
- Participate w/Regulatory to present/discuss product dossiers with government regulatory entities
- Work w/production teams-others to ensure that formula and processes are scaled up to optimum production levels (assist in education and training of production/others)
- Lead/Participate in plant trials of New/Tech transfer of products, including approving and releasing samples from the trial for submission to Technical (R&D-Tech Ops-Quality) Providing full documentation.
- Introduce new technical innovations
- Ability to assess existing process challenges, implementing continuous improvement enhancements with creative and innovative problem-solving skills/new concepts
- Understand regulatory issues/needs/basic nutrition
- Evaluate new raw materials for inclusion in new products or existing products to achieve savings or functional improvements.
- Ability to evaluate other products and provide benchmark analysis/feedback
- Participate in qualification of Contract manufacturers/Co-Packers
- Assist in the presentation of new products to marketing (regional and corporate)
- Provide support for label development, nutritional content, following
- Creative and innovative problem-solving skills
- Able to manage projects while multi
- tasking under pressure with short timelines.
- Understand and follow India regulatory guidelines and specs.
- Willing travel to Manufacturing site to run Pilot trial/scale up trial/to support Manufacturing for first few batches as & when required.
- 3 to 4 Years of full time Product development in Inner Nutrition Products /food industry

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Skills:

- Experience with all food, Beverage & Nutraceutical Dosage format like Powder, Beverage, Snacks, Gummies & solid dose.
- Experience & knowledge on food, Beverage & Nutraceutical
- Excellent written-oral communication skills to be able to interface at local level/region/corporate
- Excellent team leader/member skill sets, ability to work with all staff levels
- Excellent computer software skills (MS Word, Excel/PLM) and other operating systems
- Project management skills, including excellent organization, detail orientation and follow through
- Excellent written-oral communication skills to be able to interface at local level/region/corporate

**Experience**:

- Formula design, Plant trial, commercial scale up, or production line supervision

**Education**:

- B Tech/MS in Food Science/food technology/Dairy Science
- Formulation & Product Development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- 6 to 8 years of full time R&D formulation & Product Innovation in a multi-national Company