Empower Pharmacy
Director, Formulation Development (R&D)
Houston, TX · Director
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About the role
- Success requires deep compounding expertise, technical problem solving, execution rigor, and learning agility.
Responsibilities
- Formulation Development: Personally develops sterile injectable and nonsterile formulations across Empower's therapeutic areas, selecting APIs, excipients, concentrations, dosage forms, preparation methods, and packaging based on pharmaceutical science, stability, manufacturability, and commercial requirements.
- Sterile Development: Develops sterile injectables and resolves challenges involving solubility, compatibility, pH, osmolality, sterility, endotoxins, particulate matter, container closure integrity, and aseptic processing.
- Stability Execution: Designs accelerated and real-time stability programs, establishes testing requirements, evaluates trends, and translates results into formulation, packaging, and beyond-use-date decisions.
- Regulatory Alignment: Develops formulations consistent with applicable 503A/503B requirements, USP standards, sterile compounding expectations, cGMP principles, and Empower quality systems.
- Documentation Rigor: Creates accurate, traceable, and inspection-ready formulation records, protocols, specifications, technical reports, SOPs, development summaries, and transfer documentation.
- Technical Ownership: Serves as a hands-on formulation expert who personally solves complex development problems and drives projects through completion while providing technical guidance to colleagues.
- Advanced ability to design stability studies, interpret analytical results, troubleshoot formulations, and translate scientific findings into reproducible production processes.
- We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level.
Requirements
- While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear.
- Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus.
- The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Significant hands-on sterile injectable and nonsterile development experience, including stability, aseptic processing, scale-up, troubleshooting, and technical transfer.
- Demonstrated experience personally taking compounded products from concept through formulation, testing, stability, production implementation, and launch.
- Proven ability to independently solve complex formulation challenges and execute a high-volume development portfolio within a rapidly scaling compounding environment.
Nice to have
- PharmD and pharmacist licensure are strongly preferred.
- PharmD and active pharmacist license are strongly preferred.
- 8+ years of pharmacy, formulation development, or compounding experience with substantial 503A and/or 503B experience preferred.
Skills
- Strong knowledge of USP standards, aseptic compounding, cGMP principles, technical documentation, and pharmaceutical development practices.
Benefits
- We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications.
- https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/
- Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide.
- We're proud to be recognized as one of Houston's fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc.
- Guided by these principles, we've created a uniquely integrated healthcare platform powered by advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless commitment to patient care.
- It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that's transforming healthcare at scale.
- Let's transform healthcare together.
- Strong formulation knowledge across HRT, GLP-1, weight management, peptides, longevity, sexual health, dermatology, wellness, and men's and women's health.
Company info
- Values: - People: Empowering people defines who we are. - Quality: Excellence in every product, every time. - Service: Serving others is our highest purpose. - Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.
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