- 8+ years of formulation experience within dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, functional foods, OTC products, or related manufacturing environments.
- Significant experience developing and commercializing nutritional bars, particularly utilizing extrusion manufacturing processes.
- Expertise in formulation science, stability studies, scale-up activities, technical transfers, ingredient functionality, and shelf-life validation.
- Strong understanding of food safety and regulatory requirements, including cGMP, HACCP, SQF, and 21 CFR Parts 101 and 111.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously while driving innovation, cost optimization, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor junior formulators, and collaborate effectively with Operations, QA, Regulatory, Procurement, Sales, and customers.
- Proficiency with data analysis, documentation systems, ERP/MRP platforms, and AI-enabled tools to support R&D efficiency and decision-making.
The R&D Senior Formulator is the company’s highest individual-contributor formulation authority, responsible for architecting and delivering innovation across the full product development lifecycle—from early-stage concept through commercial launch and lifecycle management. This role owns the most technically complex and strategically significant formulation programs, drives platform-level innovation, and serves as the principal scientific resource for cross-functional leadership, key customers, and external partners. The Senior Formulator mentors and elevates the entire R&D team, champions data-driven decision-making and AI-enabled workflows, and shapes the technical direction of the company’s product portfolio. Mastery of formulation science, regulatory compliance, process engineering, and customer-facing technical leadership are all defining expectations of this role. Focus emphasis and development to elevate FoodPharma’s nutrition bar business to new levels.
This is an onsite/in-office position.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for company’s most complex, high-value, and strategically critical formulation programs across all product platforms—nutritional bars (primary focus), soft chews, dragées, and/or pan-coated forms—from concept through commercial scale.
- Architect and own comprehensive formulation strategies leveraging expert-level command of water activity control, pH and buffering chemistry, rheology, emulsification, hygroscopicity management, coating science, and multi-component ingredient interaction to deliver products that are stable, consumer-acceptable, and commercially robust at scale.
- Design and govern company-wide stability programs: author accelerated and real-time study protocols, develop Arrhenius-based degradation kinetics models and overage strategies, and issue authoritative validation reports with label claim risk assessments for senior leadership and customer stakeholders.
