Lead - R&D (Nutra)

As a Formulation Development Scientist at Vantage Nutrition LLP, your role involves formulating and designing new Nutritional/Dietary products or modifying existing ones to meet consumer needs and align with business priorities. Your key responsibilities include: - Formulating and designing new Nutritional/Dietary products such as Pellets for Nutraceutical products, FBD, FBC, Liquid fill in hard capsule, Tablets, Capsules, Soft Gels, Powders, etc. - Conducting early research, literature search, and analyzing feasibility, design, and performance of product ideas or concepts. - Coordinating, documenting, and interpreting data from experiments to understand product robustness. - Partnering with Marketing and Consumer product research to establish technical profiles meeting functional, aesthetic, and product claims platforms. - Interfacing with Regulatory Affairs, QA, and Clinical Research to ensure Quality by Design (QBD) of products. - Coordinating with Supply Chain and Manufacturing for smooth technology/process transfer to production scale. - Conducting process development and plant trials for process qualification and validation. - Maintaining and troubleshooting products in the field for continuous improvements. In addition to the primary responsibilities, some additional details about the company are not provided in the job description. Key Result Areas: - Planning and executing trials including internal and customer trials for liquid fill encapsulation in hard capsules. - Preparation of protocols, data generation, root cause analysis of complaints, and suggesting formulation modifications. - Conducting dissolution and stability studies, supporting customers with dissolution complaints, and miscellaneous activities in the application lab. Key Interfaces: Internal: - Domestic Sales Officers - Export sales team - QA - Service engineers - Operation - Purchase External: - Nutraceutical companies/ R&D - Pharmaceutical formulation R&D/ Pharmaceutical companies - CRO- formulation research Competencies: (Competencies details are not provided in the job description),