Senior Scientist Pediatrics Nutrition Science - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

Senior Scientist Pediatrics Nutrition Science

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division. In Research & Development, our ambition is providing innovative high-quality products, creating sustainable value, delivering superior user experience, and enhancing health outcomes at all stages of life. 

What You’ll Work On

Day to day activities may include but are not limited to the following:

• Function as a Subject Matter Expert (SME): Use nutrition and clinical science expertise to translate complex science and research into compelling product claims and scientific messaging for neonatal and pediatric clinical nutrition support; communicate the science and product benefits to both internal and external audiences of varying knowledge levels; remain current in standards of nutrition care and scientific literature; represent Nutrition Science in cross-functional initiatives and programs
• Innovation: Actively engage in product ideation and innovation to build product pipeline; assess new ingredients and technologies; develop clinical research strategy that generates new evidence for new claims, messaging, and publications; engage in clinical research and secondary data analytics.
• Design and Serve as Scientific Leader: May conduct clinical research according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP), International Conference of Harmonization (ICH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements.  Provide guidance for clinical research activities (e.g., protocol development, study implementation, outcomes evaluation, research publications and presentation development) by collaborating with various internal and external groups (Regulatory, Statistics and Principal Investigators).
• Establish and Maintain Relationships: With internal stakeholders (e.g., discovery scientists, product development, commercial (marketing and sales, sales training), public affairs, regulatory) and external stakeholders (e.g., key opinion leaders, customers, and consumers).
• Communication skills (oral and written): Prepare and deliver nutrition science-based content and presentations to internal and external audiences. Develop and review AN product and science educational materials (e.g., product monographs, training materials, medical justifications, FAQ documents, white papers, scientific backgrounders, as well as manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.
• Cross-functional Partnership: Serve as SME and nutrition science lead on cross-functional teams, including new product development teams, process improvement, external programs and collaborations.
• Competitive Surveillance: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of competitors’ products, ingredients, features, and benefits; claims; educational events.
• Represent Abbott Nutrition: At key conferences or meetings giving scientific presentations, engaging KOLs and actively participating in company-sponsored events and activities. 

Required Qualifications

• MS required and RDN is a plus with minimum 3 years of relevant experience; experience working in a clinical setting and/or academic experience that blends science and business.
• Minimum of 3 years clinical, industry, and/or academic experience that blends science and business preferred.

• Experience in human nutrition, from pediatric to adult life stages.

• Training in Human Nutrition, Biological Science, Life Sciences or Physiology preferred.

Preferred

• Training in Human Nutrition, Biological Science, Life Sciences or Physiology preferred.
• Strong leadership, collaborative, research, publication/scientific writing skills, excellent oral and written skills required.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with business partners, self-starter, collaborator with global teams and colleagues.
• Ability to work constructively, decisively and collegially with external and internal stakeholders, customers, consumers and key opinion leaders.

MISC:

• This is an on-site role - not a remote role.
• Relocation assistance is available
• RDs are encouraged to apply.
• Role is open because of a retiring.

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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