Research and Development - Postdoc - Vibrational Spectroscopy and Chemometrics

Job description

P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands.

Procter & Gamble's R&D organization has an opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at our Mason, Ohio site to develop novel methods to evaluate the structure and chemistry of skin with vibrational spectroscopy. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers working with state-of-the-art instrumentation and data analysis procedures developing in vivo methods that are utilized in a clinical setting. P&G is a global, fast-paced, highly collaborative environment that demands strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to successfully deliver business results.

Job Responsibilities

· Partner effectively with global colleagues on a multi-functional, multi-disciplinary team (e.g., Analytical Scientists, Clinical Scientists, Statisticians) to develop and deliver chemometric processing algorithms that extract critical metrics from in vivo spectra of skin
· Participate in the development of new approaches for using spectroscopic measures to evaluate skin properties and content
· Deliver automated processing software that enables trained users to execute the ChemoMetric algorithms
· Publish and present findings of the research
· Create processing algorithm modules that build our internal coding toolbox

Desired profile

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. degree based on research demonstrating in-depth knowledge of vibrational spectroscopy and chemometric analysis of spectroscopic data. She or he should have technical mastery in working with high volumes of data across multiple platforms of software (e.g. Matlab, Opus, Isis, Grams). Significant experience with NIR, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopic methodology is required. The selected candidate will also have skills in leadership, innovation and creative problem solving, collaboration with people in other disciplines, and strong oral and written communication. The candidate should also be comfortable interacting with study subjects.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship, HIV/AIDS status or any other legally protected factor.

No immigration sponsorship is available for this position. Procter & Gamble does not sponsor candidates for permanent residency except in some areas that in Procter & Gamble's sole discretion require highly specialized backgrounds.

Procter & Gamble participates in e-verify as required by law.

Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

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