What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of scientists developing pharmaceutical and nutraceutical colors, coating systems, and flavor technologies, while serving as a technical subject-matter expert.
• Shape technical strategies and identify emerging technologies, formulation trends, and customer needs to drive new products, optimization, line extensions, and customer-specific solutions.
• Partner with Commercial and customers to solve formulation challenges, provide technical recommendations, support product evaluations, and identify new business opportunities.
• Lead and support technical programs from formulation development through scale-up, technology transfer, commercialization, and ongoing product lifecycle management.
• Provide technical guidance across product specifications, regulatory documentation, investigations, troubleshooting, and customer inquiries.
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What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Food Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceuticals, excipients, formulation, coatings, colors, flavors, or application development, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or nutraceutical dosage forms, excipient functionality, formulation development, and experience with colors, coating systems, and/or flavor technologies.
• Customer-facing technical experience, with strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, presentation, and project management skills.
• Experience with film or tablet coating, taste masking, oral solid dosage forms, excipient qualification, scale-up, technology transfer, or working with global pharmaceutical customers is a plus.
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What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to lead innovation in pharmaceutical technologies and directly influence solutions from early development through commercialization.
• A highly visible role where you’ll partner with customers, Commercial teams, and cross-functional experts to solve meaningful technical challenges.
• The opportunity to grow your leadership impact by mentoring scientists and shaping technical strategy and portfolio direction.
• A dynamic, collaborative environment with exposure to a broad range of technologies, customers, applications, and industry trends.
• A 100% onsite role based in Geesthacht, Germany, giving you the opportunity to work closely with the scientific and technical teams and be hands-on with development and innovation.