Formulation Scientist - Nutraceutical

As a skilled Formulation & Development Scientist for the Nutraceutical Division, your primary responsibility will be to lead the development of innovative dietary supplements, functional foods, and health products. This role involves conducting research, formulating new products, and optimizing existing formulations while ensuring adherence to regulatory guidelines. Your key responsibilities will include designing and developing new formulations for a variety of dietary supplements such as tablets, capsules, powders, gummies, and liquids. You will also be tasked with optimizing existing formulations to enhance stability, bioavailability, and efficacy. Evaluating new ingredients, excipients, and delivery systems for nutraceutical products will be an essential part of your role. You will conduct various tests and analyses, including stability studies, compatibility tests, and dissolution studies. Collaboration with analytical teams will be necessary to maintain quality and consistency in the formulations. Ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies such as FSSAI, FDA, EFSA, and other international regulations will be a critical aspect of the role. Additionally, you will be responsible for preparing technical documents like COAs, MSDS, and formulation dossiers. To stay abreast of the latest trends in nutraceutical science, herbal extracts, probiotics, and functional foods, you will need to engage in continuous research and innovation. Developing and implementing novel delivery technologies to enhance bioavailability will be key to your success. Collaboration with cross-functional teams including procurement, manufacturing, quality, and marketing will be essential for scale-up and commercialization of products. As a Formulation & Development Scientist, you will troubleshoot formulation challenges related to solubility, stability, and taste masking. Process optimization to improve manufacturing efficiency and product performance will be part of your responsibilities. Your expertise in nutraceutical formulation techniques, knowledge of herbal extracts, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and probiotics, and familiarity with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Quality Control (QC) protocols will be invaluable. Strong analytical skills, experience with testing techniques such as HPLC, FTIR, and a problem-solving mindset with attention to detail are essential for this role. Good documentation and regulatory knowledge will also be required. Preferred experience includes working with tablets, capsules, soft gels, gummies, and effervescent formulations, ideally in an R&D, F&D, or Nutraceutical/Pharma company. This is a full-time, permanent position with benefits such as Provident Fund. The work schedule is during the day, and the location is in person.,