Senior Scientist

Colgate-posted 1 day ago
Full-time • Senior
Onsite • Topeka, KS
5,001-10,000 employees
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Are you passionate about clinical nutrition? Hill's Pet Nutrition invites applications for a Senior Scientist position based at our Topeka, KS location. Our Senior Scientist provides nutrition expertise for Hill’s initiatives in clinical nutrition and studies. Driven superiority in the area of nutrition is the core of our business strategy. Outstanding nutrition provides benefits for pets and drives product endorsement by the veterinarians. The expert in nutrition needs demonstrated excellence in knowledge of animal or human nutrition, nutrient requirements, and nutritional impacts on health status. Does this sound exciting to you?

  • Serve as Principal Investigator on pet nutrition and clinical studies.
  • Simultaneously manage projects, project budgets, time-lines and resources.
  • Apply nutrition expertise and innovative mindset to help develop new nutrition claims with relevance to pets, pet parents and veterinarians.
  • Ensure that products align with our nutrition philosophy.
  • Integrate scientific findings to meaningful product applications, global nutrition standards, claims and clinical study design.
  • Develop and maintain relationships and effectively interface throughout the business with regular contact with Hill’s research and development scientists and cross functional partners (Regulatory, Legal, Professional Veterinary Affairs and Hill’s Marketing leaders) to provide nutrition input, mentorship, and assistance with claims development.
  • Keep abreast of new nutrition and veterinary medicine findings in order to translate research to product claims.
  • Nurture relationships with researchers and clinicians outside of Hill’s to provide expertise, ideas, capabilities and technologies that fill gaps.
  • Search, read, and critically review published scientific literature in the development and preparation of substantiation/claims dossiers.
  • Effectively communicate through presentations, training material, written technical documentation, substantiation dossiers, nutritional points of view, and reports.
  • Author scientific and clinical study reports, invention records, and manuscripts of scientific work for publication according to.
  • PhD in Animal Nutrition, Nutrition Science, or Human Nutrition with 5 years of experience including dissertation research and industry in food, feed or nutrition technical roles.
  • Experience in designing, executing and or supervising clinical, feeding studies or nutrition experiments in veterinary or human pharmaceutical, medical or nutritional fields.
  • Experience in animal feed formulation, pet food formulation, or human food design and formulation.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and strong technical writing skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and team skills, which foster working relationships throughout Hill’s and external organization
  • Able to work independently with minimal direction and manage projects
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to details
  • Good interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills
  • Experience in applying basic statistical analysis to research studies
  • Good time leadership skills
  • Work within a project team environment
  • Computer proficiency
  • Negotiation skills
  • Demonstrated understanding of physiology, biochemistry, scientific information gathering, synthesis, and communication.
  • Fundamental knowledge in veterinary science, food processing, food science, regulatory, claims or intellectual property (patents).
  • Recognized as a specialist with strong business savvy.
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