Senior Scientist 95486
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Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
#95486 Topeka Kansas United States
The Senior Scientist in Research as part of the Nutrition Innovation team will be responsible for the development of short and longterm strategies to deliver new technologies new products and product improvements or product claims that provide a competitive advantage to Hills Pet Nutrition Inc.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify evaluate and champion new patentable and innovative technologies that can be used in development of new and improved products for pets.
- Partner with manager/director to develop and refine research strategy to establish clear deliverables for identification and evaluation of new technologies. Ensure strategy delivers a pipeline of technology options for short term and long term commercialization.
- Provide expertise integrating basic scientific data (e.g. biochemical genomic metabolomics data) with clinical outcomes. Integrate consumer and veterinary insights into the research program strategy.
- Maintain familiarity with the latest developments in appropriate areas of genomics and genetics so that new products and product improvements reflect the true state of the art.
- Design analyze summarize and write final reports of data from internal and outside research studies and make presentations to management and crossfunctional Hills groups especially Product Development Clinical Studies and Marketing.
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects project budgets timelines and be accountable for deliverables.
- Cultivate relationships with researchers and clinicians outside of Hills to provide expertise ideas and technologies that fill gaps.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions.
Education/ Experience Requirements:
Basic qualifications:
- PhD in nutrition (human or animal) physiology biochemistry or related field.
- 8 years of postgraduate experience in basic or applied science.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in canine/feline or human nutrition or pharmaceutical industry.
Expected Areas of Skills:
- Proven experience in biochemical genomic and metabolic research.
- Strong technical skills in scientific method utilization data analysis and problemsolving.
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
- Basic knowledge of nutritional biochemistry.
- Excellent interpersonal and team skills to foster crossfunctional working relationships throughout Hills and external organizations.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin ethnicity age disability marital status veteran status (United States positions) or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you interested in working for Hills Pet Nutrition You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by email are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.
Work that matters fueled by passion for pets! At Hills we have a purpose. Every day around the world we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation amazing nutrition and the best and brightest people. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition Hills mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.
HILLS Prescription Diet therapeutic pet foods HILLS Science Diet and HILLS Ideal Balance wellness pet foods are sold worldwide. Hills is a division of ColgatePalmolive a leading global consumer products company tightly focused on Oral Care Personal Care Home Care and Pet Nutrition with sales of products in more than 200 countries. To learn more about Hills and Colgate please visit and or find us on LinkedIn Facebook Twitter and YouTube.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact with the subject Accommodation Request should you require accommodation.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Temp
