What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Development Scientist position at Haleon?
Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.
As Senior Development Scientist in our Oral Solid Dose (OSD) development team, you will drive formulation design, rigorous scientific experimentation, scale-up, and technical risk assessment for OSD products. The role requires strong expertise in formulation science, material characterization, process understanding, and translation of laboratory insights to scalable, robust manufacturing processes. The candidate will serve as a scientific leader for OSD projects, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality, performance, manufacturability, and regulatory compliance.
Role Responsibilities
- Leads the formulation design and development using principles of scientific rigor, Quality by Design and material science.
- Develop prototypes, optimize formulations, and establish a Design Space through structured experimentation and sound scientific rationale.
- Evaluate interactions between API, excipients, and process parameters, and translate that understanding into robust formulation strategies.
- Develop Direct Compression, wet and dry granulation and continuous manufacturing formulations depending on project needs.
- Plan, execute and interpret Design of Experiments to understand critical material attributes and critical process parameters.
- Apply root cause analysis methodologies to resolve formulation and process failures.
- Perform or interpret key characterization of raw materials and blends, including PSD, microscopy, rheology, compatibility, moisture sorption, compressibility, etc.
- Design scalable manufacturing processes and partner closely with site technical teams to transfer knowledge.
- Prepare technical protocols, reports, product development reports, and regulatory documentation (CMC module 3).
- Partner with Analytical, Quality and Regulatory team to ensure end-to-end technical alignment.
- Present internal Research and Development forums and external meetings.
- Independently prepares and communicates conclusions and recommendations for next steps.
- Update matrix leaders informed of progress and activities.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- 5 years formulation and/or product development experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree with 3 years formulation and/or product development experience.
- PhD with 2 years formulation and/or product development experience.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and drug development process.
- Ability to problem solve.
- Project management experience.
- Experience analyzing data.
- Ability to influence others.
Location Richmond, VA.
This job posting closes on: December 17th, 2025.
This job posting closes on: December 17th, 2025.
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Benefits
Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program. This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave. On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family. We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.
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Equal Opportunities
Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.
The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.
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Please note: Resumes, CVs, or other requests outside of accommodation support submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
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