Scientist – Measurement Science

GOA CONSUMER HEALTH PLANT

P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we're the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We've spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship. The insight, innovation and passion of hardworking teams have helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and visible, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.

Dedication from Us: You'll be at the core of breakthrough innovations, be given exciting assignments, lead initiatives, and take ownership and responsibility, in creative workspaces where new insights thrive. All the while, you'll receive outstanding training to help you become a leader in your field. It is not just about what you'll do, but how you'll feel: encouraged, valued, purposeful, challenged, heard, and inspired.

What we Offer: Continuous mentorship – you will collaborate with peers and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager dynamic and encouraging work environment– employees are at the center, we value every individual and support initiative, promoting agility and work/life balance.

Overview of role

Personal Health Care (PHC) is an exciting and fast paced business that contributes to a significant component of P&G’s global profits and sales in Health care sector. This role provide hands-on Measurement Sciences leadership and analytical execution for the regional Personal Healthcare business. The role converts business and technical questions into fit-for-purpose measurement plans, generates reliable and compliant data, and turns results into clear recommendations that enable innovation, product qualification, claims support, business continuity, and lifecycle stewardship. The role combines strong procedural execution with growing application capability: rigorous experimentation, method development and validation, technical problem-solving, data interpretation, and collaboration across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Product Supply, Procurement, external laboratories, and contract manufacturers

Your team

This role will be located at Goa PHC Plant in Goa Enhanced Measurement lab. The role will be part of the Measurement sciences team supporting Health Care organization and reports to Director, AMA PHC Measurement Science. You will have the opportunity work in multi-functional teams (local, regional and global), engage with both internal and external partners.

How success looks like

• You will ensure a reliable, decision-ready analytical evidence is delivered at the speed and rigor needed by the business.

• You will ensure methods are fit for purpose, reproducible, transferable, compliant, and supported by complete technical documentation.

• You will ensure technical risks, unexpected results, and quality signals are identified early, investigated scientifically, and translated into actionable recommendations.

• You will ensure regional project teams receive strong Measurement Sciences partnership across innovation and base-business priorities.

• You will ensure External capability and digital workflows are leveraged responsibly to improve learning speed, capacity, and data integrity

• You will be responsible for deploying measurement strategies to internal and external partners

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with MFT project teams to frame clear technical problem statements, hypotheses, critical measures, acceptance criteria, and learning plans.

• Select appropriate analytical approaches from the existing toolbox and recommend new or modified methods when an outage exists.

• Connect measurement outputs to product performance, stability, quality, mechanism of action, claims, and business decisions.

• Independently execute established chemical and physical methods and progressively develop or adapt methods for tablets, capsules, liquids, semi-solids, and other relevant dosage forms.

• Apply appropriate techniques such as HPLC, GC, UV/Vis, AAS, ICP, dissolution, physical characterization, and other fit-for-purpose methods relevant to the personal healthcare portfolio.

• Plan and execute method development, validation or qualification, robustness, equivalence, transfer, and troubleshooting activities with coaching where required.

• Own instrument readiness, calibration, maintenance, repair coordination, and qualification activities within assigned scope, ensure safe sample handling, precise preparation, reliable measurement, complete traceability, and data integrity.

• Recognize anomalous, out-of-trend, or unexpected results; investigate root causes and propose scientifically sound next steps, apply foundational statistics and effective visualization to interpret results and distinguish signal from variability.

• Summarize conclusions, risks, and recommendations in concise technical reports and project updates.

• Execute and coordinate stability, quality monitoring, qualification, troubleshooting, and business-continuity testing.

• Contribute to investigations, change controls, method or specification updates, and lifecycle documentation within assigned scope.

• Maintain inspection-ready records, protocols, reports, SOPs, and controlled analytical documentation.

• Work effectively with Product Development, Product Research, Process, Packaging, QA, Regulatory, GPS, Product Supply, Procurement, external laboratories, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

• Collaborates with Quality Control team to deploy methods, build capabilities and synergies across processes to enable smooth transition from R&D to QC.

• Coordinate external testing and capability, including clear briefs, technical oversight, data review, and timely delivery, while protecting confidential information and intellectual property.

• Build an internal and external technical network, seek the right expertise for complex problems, and share learning across projects.

• Use approved digital systems for experiment documentation, data capture, analysis, visualization, collaboration, and knowledge reuse.

• Identify opportunities to simplify methods, automate repeatable steps, improve throughput, and strengthen touchless data flow without compromising quality.

• Recommend and implement practical improvements to laboratory methods, test designs, supplies, and work processes.

Role Requirements

• Advanced degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, or a closely related discipline. A PhD with relevant analytical experience, or a Master’s degree with substantial hands-on analytical experience, is preferred.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in analytical method development, validation or qualification, transfer, stability testing, and laboratory troubleshooting.

• Working knowledge of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques, with the ability to connect analytical results to product or material behavior.

• Experience working under regulated laboratory practices and quality systems, with strong understanding of data integrity and good documentation.

• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly in English. Bahasa Indonesia capability is strongly preferred for local stakeholder and partner engagement.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, collaborate across functions, and work with increasing independence.

Preferred experience

• Experience in consumer health, pharmaceutical, OTC, medical-device, food-supplement, or other regulated product environments.

• Experience with Indonesian or regional product requirements, pharmacopeial methods, local external laboratories, contract manufacturers, or technology transfer.

• Exposure to claims support, product qualification, stability strategy, OOS/OOT investigations, CAPA, change control, and audit readiness.

• Practical use of statistical tools and digital data systems such as LIMS, Excel, Power BI, chromatography data systems.

• Evidence of technical curiosity, external focus, continuous improvement, and responsible handling of confidential information and intellectual property.

About us

We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor

Advanced degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, or a closely related discipline. A PhD with relevant analytical experience, or a Master’s degree with substantial hands-on analytical experience, is preferred.