Location - Remote or On-Site
Salary - 96K - 107K
About Nordic Naturals
At Nordic Naturals, we take pride in crafting foundational nutrients to help people all over the world live healthy lives. Our mission is to give people, pets, and families the highest-quality nutrients possible to be well and support optimal health. This seemingly simple mission of global health relies on a dedicated team of motivated employees who share our passion for nutrition and wellness. Join us and discover how rewarding it can be to make a living while contributing to a truly great cause.
Position Summary
The Product Development Formulator, Business Sustaining owns the technical stewardship of Nordic Naturals’ existing product portfolio, ensuring products remain compliant, manufacturable, cost‑effective, and aligned with brand standards. This role leads qualification of alternate materials, executes reformulations, manages specifications, and drives cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Supply Chain, QA, and PD Engineering. The Formulator is responsible for resolving technical issues, optimizing existing formulas, and maintaining documentation rigor across all sustaining activities. This role is responsible for full ownership of sustaining projects, technical problem solving, and cross‑functional coordination.
Essential Functions & Core Responsibilities
Product Sustainment & Reformulation
- Lead qualification of alternate raw materials, ingredients, and components through technical evaluation, vendor documentation review, and cross‑functional alignment.
- Execute compliance‑driven, supply‑driven, and optimization‑driven reformulations, ensuring nutritional accuracy, regulatory alignment, and manufacturability.
- Conduct impact assessments for formulation or material changes and recommend corrective actions.
Operations, Supply Chain & QA Support
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to troubleshoot material variability, and manufacturability challenges.
- Collaborate with QA to address deviations, non‑conformances, and specification gaps; contribute to root cause analysis and corrective action plans.
- Support tech transfers by preparing documentation, coordinating cross‑functional alignment, and ensuring formulas and specifications are ready for scale‑up or site changes.
Specifications, Documentation & Change Control
- Develop, refine, and maintain ingredient, component, and finished product specifications with high accuracy and clarity.
- Manage change submissions, document revisions, and approval workflows within PLM and related systems.
- Ensure documentation integrity and traceability across all business‑sustaining activities.
Continuous Improvement & Systems Management
- Identify and implement improvements to documentation workflows, qualification processes, and cross‑functional communication.
- Maintain and enhance PD systems and databases to support efficient sustaining operations.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Serve as a technical liaison between PD Engineering, NPD formulators, Operations, Supply Chain, QA, and Strategic Sourcing.
- Provide structured follow‑up and project coordination to ensure sustaining initiatives progress on schedule.
Position Qualifications
- BS in food science, chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical engineering, or related field required.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in dietary supplement (capsules, soft gels, liquids, powders, gummies, and/or nutrition bars) or related field.
- Must be able to read and interpret documents such as standard operating procedures, and regulations.
- Must be able to work cross functionally with many different departments and various skill levels.
- Knowledge of Food & Supplement regulations (including DSHEA, FD&C Act Section 21 CFR 111) is preferred.
- Ability to objectively review the primary and secondary scientific literature to help support ingredient or product efficacy and safety is preferred.
- Ability to deal with complex problems with many variables.
- Basic skills in math, including algebra are required.
Competency Statements
- Positive - Ability to view all situations with a positive attitude.
- Accountable – takes ownership for responsibilities, acknowledges and learns from mistakes
- Innovative - Ability to look beyond the standard solutions and "think outside the box".
- Independent – Must be self-motivated and able to manage obligations without direct supervision
- Assertiveness - Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend a position or idea.
- Communication - Ability to communicate effectively with others using spoken and written word clearly and concisely.
- Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
- Enthusiastic - Ability to bring energy to the performance of a task.
- Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
Other Preferred Skills & Abilities
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to produce high-quality work with limited supervision.
- Must possess knowledge pertaining to the nutraceutical industry and must be well versed in a variety of ingredients, their usage, forms, activities and all other relevant characteristics.
Computer Skills:
Must be proficient with MS Office and have advanced Excel skills.
Certifications & Licenses: N/A
Benefits
Eligible employees may be offered a comprehensive benefits package, which may include medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, and other company-sponsored programs. Eligibility and offerings are subject to applicable plan documents and employment status.
Physical Demands – Manufacturing
This position operates on an active plant floor, requiring candidates to remain stationary or move throughout the facility for shifts up to 8–10 hours. Essential duties involve positioning self to operate tools, using fine motor dexterity to adjust components, and lifting or transferring materials weighing 10-50 pounds depending on the position. Work is performed in a manufacturing environment requiring strict compliance with mandatory safety protocols and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
California Applicants
The compensation range above applies to work performed in California and represents the employer’s good-faith estimate of the expected salary or hourly wage range for the position.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. We consider qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.