The Role
The Product Development & Innovation Scientist combines formulation expertise, scientific research, and innovation to develop and optimize medical foods and dietary supplements. This role translates emerging science, ingredients, and technologies into differentiated, evidence-supported products that are technically robust, operationally feasible, and commercially viable.
The role also drives continuous improvement across Product Development & Innovation, simplifying processes and improving development speed and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Product Formulation & Commercialization
- Develop and optimize tablets, capsules, powders, liquids, foods, medical foods, and dietary supplements from concept through commercialization.
- Prepare and evaluate benchtop, pilot, scale-up, stability, sensory, and clinical-study batches; troubleshoot formulation and process challenges.
- Evaluate ingredients, suppliers, manufacturing processes, specifications, stability requirements, cost, and operational feasibility.
- Partner with Production, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Procurement, external manufacturers, and suppliers to deliver compliant, scalable products on schedule.
- Create and maintain development records, specifications, manufacturing instructions, cost sheets, SOPs, and technology-transfer documentation.
Continuous Improvement
- Proactively identify opportunities to optimize formulations, ingredients and specifications, while improving manufacturing efficiency
- Build technical and business cases for optimization opportunities and partner cross-functionally to implement them.
- Drive process improvements across Product Development & Innovation to reduce development cycle times, eliminate non-value-added work and rework, standardize best practices, and improve right-first-time execution.
Research, Innovation & Scientific Leadership
- Serve as a scientific expert for assigned categories by evaluating scientific literature, clinical evidence, emerging ingredients, technologies, and market developments.
- Identify and assess new ingredients, technologies, product formats, and concepts; develop prototypes and recommend opportunities with strong scientific and commercial potential.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Innovation, and R&D teams on product concepts, scientific positioning, and evidence-based claims.
- Build strong scientific, supplier, and manufacturing networks to strengthen the innovation and product-development pipeline.
- Translate scientific and technical findings into clear recommendations for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Basic Requirements
Experience / Training / Education:
- Master’s degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Nutrition, Health Science, Naturopathy, or a related discipline. An advanced diploma may be considered with significant relevant industry experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in formulation, research, innovation, and commercialization within the food, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, or related consumer-health industry.
- Demonstrated experience locating and interpreting scientific literature and translating evidence into product, formulation, or claims recommendations.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Strong knowledge of product formulation, ingredient functionality, nutritional science, product innovation, experimental design, scale-up, stability, and commercialization.
- Advanced analytical, research, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Clear and engaging written, verbal, presentation, and public-speaking skills, including the ability to communicate complex science to varied audiences.
- Ability to build strong internal and external relationships, influence cross-functional teams, lead change, and work effectively in a global environment.
- High accountability, sound judgment, flexibility, and the ability to independently prioritize and deliver multiple projects against competing deadlines.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
- Ability to attend occasional meetings outside normal working hours to support global collaboration.
- GMP training and compliance are required.
Compensation
The current range for this role based out of Gig Harbor, WA is $123,604/yr. to $140,000/yr.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Health and Wellness:
- Medical, dental, vision
- Annual employer HSA (Health Savings Account) funding for eligible employees who elect an HSA medical plan
- STD, LTD, Basic Life AD&D coverage
- 401k + employer matching
- Vacation and Sick Time
- 2 Volunteer Days off per year
- Emergency evacuation time off
- 11 paid company holidays
- 1 Floating holiday to celebrate your birthday or important religious/holiday to you
- Quarterly product allowance to use towards your favorite Metagenics products!
- Product discount
- Peer to peer recognition programs & more!
A minimum of three workdays per week are to be conducted at the Metagenics Gig Harbor Office (9627 44th Ave, Gig Harbor, WA 98332).
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