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.

JOB PURPOSE:

Provide senior individual-contributor technical leadership for OTC formulation science, product design, development, scale-up, technology transfer, regulatory technical support, and lifecycle management across consumer healthcare products and dosage forms.

The Principal Scientist, OTC Formulation is a individual-contributor technical authority responsible for shaping formulation strategy and resolving complex technical challenges across OTC consumer healthcare development programs. The role reports to the Senior Principal Scientist, OTC Product Development / Formulation Science, and operates through technical depth, cross-functional influence, senior review, governance, and mentorship rather than direct line management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Formulation and Product Development

• Define formulation strategy and technical development approach for complex OTC products across relevant consumer healthcare categories.

• Translate consumer, commercial, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing requirements into robust target product profiles and formulation strategies.

• Provide senior technical leadership for dosage-form design, pre-formulation, excipient selection, active compatibility, product performance, and risk-based formulation decisions.

• Resolve complex formulation challenges including palatability, dose delivery, solubility, dissolution, rheology, microbial robustness, preservative effectiveness, packaging interaction, and stability.

• Embed QbD, design of experiments, critical quality attributes, critical process parameters, control strategy, and technical risk management into development programs.

2. Technical Leadership and Delivery

• Ensure formulation decisions support consumer experience, labelled use, dose delivery, product performance, and OTC self-care suitability.

• Partner with Medical, Regulatory, Claims, Consumer Science, Commercial, Quality, Packaging, Supply, and external partners to support evidence readiness and product delivery.

• Provide technical review of formulation rationale, development data, stability conclusions, regulatory technical content, and lifecycle change assessments.

• Contribute to innovation, external technology assessment, competitive benchmarking, design-to-value, productivity, sustainability, and lifecycle improvement opportunities.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Master’s degree in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent senior technical experience may be considered.

• Typically 8-10+ years of formulation, product development, or technical leadership experience in OTC, consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other regulated product environments.

• Demonstrated accountability for formulation strategy, technical problem solving, and delivery of multiple products, platforms, dosage forms, or lifecycle programs.

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, work with external partners, and coach or mentor scientists through technical authority rather than formal line-management authority.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience supporting multiple geographic markets, APAC regulatory environments, or OTC monograph/local-standard frameworks.

• Experience with pain, respiratory, allergy, gastrointestinal, dermatology, wellness, or adjacent self-care categories.

• Experience with contract development or manufacturing organizations, external laboratories, packaging partners, or external innovation partners.

• Knowledge of QbD, design of experiments, technical risk assessment, design-to-value, sustainability, and structured problem-solving tools.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic formulation leadership and advanced scientific judgment.

• Complex technical problem solving and risk-based decision making.

• Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management.

• Clear technical communication, documentation, and governance mindset.

• Knowledge sharing, and capability building as an individual contributor.

• Consumer-focused innovation, business acumen, and continuous improvement mindset.

Key Performance Indicators

• Quality and impact of formulation strategy, technical direction, and risk-based decisions.

• Delivery of key technical milestones across development, scale-up, launch, and lifecycle programs.

• Robustness, stability, manufacturability, scalability, and consumer acceptability of developed products.

• Resolution of complex formulation, process, analytical, packaging, stability, and manufacturing issues.

• Quality of technical documentation, regulatory support, control strategy, and lifecycle change assessments.

• Contribution to innovation, productivity, sustainability, external technology assessment, and formulation-science capability building.

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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.

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Note to candidates

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