Científico principal- Skin Health

At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together with one purpose: to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.  Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world.  When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Next Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough. Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Principal Scientist in R&D Cross-Franchise team, located in Cali, Colombia. The Principal Scientist develops products pipeline with regional or global scope for body care, translating science to superior consumer benefits and delivers product life cycle management pipeline including compliance, cost and process improvement. Leads a team and provides technical mentorship to junior level scientists. Strong leadership skills, connect, influence, negotiation and partnership building skills, ability to lead direct reports and by influence indirect reports are expected. Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Consumer Health business to create a new publicly traded company. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 24 months, and it will be subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, if required, and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of a new entity within New Consumer Health and your employment would be governed by New Consumer Health’s employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by New Consumer Health at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes. Key Responsibilities Translates current & new consumer needs into R&D deliverables and promoting technical support to scientists on new product development and life cycle projects according to the agreed brief considering claim requirements, cost targets and budget and timeline management. Connect with key stakeholders for claims discussions and demos being consumer obsessed and closer of external environment to contribute with ideas and concepts and generates innovative ideas impacting the brand strategy success and creating value to the project pipeline implementation. Perform lab experiments related to formula & process development with innovative and strategic approach while applying consumer insights. Plan and execute scale up processes and deployment actitvities. Establish partnership with internal and external manufacturers to implement new products and improve manufacturing and filling process there. Lead investigation & change control process, troubleshooting and support other quality process during R&D initial deployment, roll-outs, post launches and market stability studies issues. Represent R&D into cross functional teams as technical SME. Flexibility to lead with implementation changes according global and regional alignments or new decisions. Demonstrate clear engagement for action on priorities supporting the team with technical skills. Manage complexity reduction focused on cost improvement initiatives providing solutions to technical challenges. Generate, organize and compile documentation for registration process being compliant with regulatory agencies and authorities' entity guidelines. Great sense of urgency is needed to respond the target dates and business achievements. Ability to development partnership with our chemical suppliers to stablish a process to new developments, developing robbust technical documentation including protocols, reports, specifications and patent filing and ensuring compliance with Quality procedures, regulatory requirements, and stay current on GMP Leads the team towards an environment of innovative solutions and collaboration, reinforcing the culture of constant consumer learning, science development, sharing and partnering, internal and external engaging this team and key stakeholders inside and outside R&D to deliver pipeline on time and in full. Promote mentoring and coaching focused on people development and proving a great environment for talents growth performing all activities related with people management. Qualifications Qualifications Education: A minimum of Bachelor Degree in Industrial Pharmacy, Chemistry, Chemistry Engineering or related areas is required. Graduate degree or specialization in cosmetology will be considered a differential. Experience and Skills Required: Minimum of 6-10 years experience in R&D areas focused on formulated and/or engineered products, experience with people management & development locally and virtually. Strong Communication, organizational, interpersonal and influencing skills to work with different countries. Fluent English is required. Portuguese will be considered a differential. Job location / organization: Cali, Colombia_ J&J Consumer R&D – Cross-Franchise_ There is NO mobility for this position. Primary Location Colombia-Valle del Cauca-Cali- Organization Johnson & Johnson de Colombia S.A. (7755) Job Function R&D Requisition ID 2105988294W