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Pomezia Plant is the biggest J&J; Consumer Production Site in the World and a point of reference in terms of innovation and quality.
Do you want to join our team?
For our Consumer Health Care department, located in Santa Palomba - Pomezia (Rome), we are recruiting for a **Principal Scientist** to be hired with a permament contract.
The **Principal Scientist **will execute projects linking production at the Pomezia site to brand strategy, targets, and problem resolution methods with demonstrated rigor and deep organizational knowledge whilst embedding sustainability into all actions.
**Project execution**
- Develop a technical expertise in product design/formulation and process development/process scale-up
- Operate independent of technical direction
- Execute pipeline activities
- Execute technical project work including scale-up activities and analysis with hands-on involvement
- Participate in cross-functional project team discussions defining and coordinating deliverables (e.g.: R&D;, Business and Supply Chain ) and to define project resources
- Connection with end-to-end R&D; functions defining the execution pathway and ensuring deliverables remain on track and support technical problem solving
- Manage routine organizational processes and complexity
- Provide guidance and solutions to technical problems
- Draft and execute peer reviewed manuscripts, tech reports
- Provide progress/update to cross-functional project team
- Follow standards and ensuring the department meets quality, medical and regulatory requirements
**Technical Understanding**
- Understand formulation technology and chemical science




- Optimize formulated ingredients to meet cost objectives and to manage availability of raw materials
- Manage daily site/laboratory operations and schedules. Coordinate with external partners, Chemical Suppliers, Clinical sites, and testing laboratories, to support new product activity. (if applicable)
- Monitor equipment operations and maintain cleanliness in the laboratory. (if applicable)
**Internal/external partnership management**
- Coordinate day-to-day interaction with global Hubs and/or external development partnerships (as needed)
**Financial acumen**
- Understand the business model and strategy
- Understand basic revenue models, P/L and cost projections
**Leadership**
- Responsibilities may include people leadership, performance management and people development as well as leading a (project)team of technical functions
**Qualifications**
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Science, Engineering, Pharmacy
- At least 6 years of previous experience in related position
**Required Knowledge and Skills**:
- Experience with formulated products is required
- Cosmetics, OTC or pharmaceutical experience is required
- A good technical foundation of formulated products including emulsions, surfactants, suspensions, structured liquids, an understanding of material chemistry and process equipment is required
- Process development/process scale-up experience is required




- Experience working with manufacturing and technical project management is required
- Fluent written and oral English communication skills are required
**Required Abilities**:
- **_Digital and Data Fluency:_** Leveraging business metrics, analytics and internal and external data to generate insights. Using and championing insights to drive innovation (process, product, cost) and evidence-based business decision making
- **_Business Acumen: _**Understanding of the business context in which the organization operates incl. Business strategy, competition and how individual initiatives and activities relate to critical business drivers
- **_Internal and External collaboration:_** Building and cultivating relationships internally, cross-functionally and externally. Collaborating openly across boundaries and acting as a team player. Communicating in a compelling way. Ability to work with complexity and ambiguity.
- **_Learning agility and continuous development:_** Learning from experiences and failures and adapting to new situations. Being self-aware, developing self and others’ continuous learning and implementing new skills
- **_Adaptability and Agility:_** Ability to adjust thinking and behavior to changing situations - internal, external and inter-related aspects. Requires emotional intelligence and resilience to