2025 Summer Intern: Stability Science

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question. 

Future Talent roles at Haleon offer the chance to change the way people see and manage their everyday health. That’s an incredible opportunity. An exciting challenge. And a huge responsibility. We’re always looking for ambitious individuals who are inspired by our purpose to deliver better everyday health, with humanity. And want to help us achieve this goal. Right now, we’re looking for graduate in Stability to join us to do career defining work.

A career in Stability where none of us stand still.

Haleon R&D supports the innovation and development of leading global brands in Consumer Healthcare. Stability Sciences is a specialized discipline that contributes to the growth of the Consumer Health Business by understanding the impact of environmental factors on the quality of products, supporting the development of new fit-for-purpose processes, and establishing shelf-life and storage conditions for products. R&D Stability is responsible for developing stability strategies, designing, and executing stability studies, evaluating data, and issuing technical stability reports.

In this role, the individual can participate and own key aspects of the stability field and will collaborate with stability colleagues and other R&D scientists to build technical knowledge in product development and data analysis. You will gain training and experience in analytical techniques, understanding of chemical degradation pathways and use of statistical modeling software and techniques.

Experience in product stability provides a strong foundation for a career stability and product development as it brings together experts from development and manufacturing, product chemistry, stability, analytical and microbial testing to define the best study to understand the science behind our products and accurately set product storage conditions and expiry periods.

What will your individual contribution at Haleon be?

• Apply learnings from early proof of concept study of Multispectral Imaging via Videometer method for the physical characterization of tablets to design a long-term study to validate a model that could be used for early stage product development decision making.
• Perform data trending, and statistical analysis using statistical software to support potential validation of a model that can predict physical appearance failures (Physical: Appearance).
• Data gathering and data consolidation from ongoing Multispectral Imaging via Videometer studies to support its implementation to future stability studies/product development.
• Engage with product development and product testing SMEs to support technical discussion and data gathering for the proposed stability studies.
• Support stability study initiations directly related to the summer project activities.

We’re the people changing the future of everyday health. So you will be someone who has:

• Creative and problem-solving thinking
• Strategic/big-picture thinking
• Entrepreneurial and agile mindset
• Strong prioritisation and analytical skills
• Personal accountability
• Business and consumer/customer knowledge and understanding
• Adaptability and resilience in ambiguity
• A desire to learn and have meaningful impact
• Experience in using laboratory equipment (preferred)
• Experience in compiling data and performing data trending
• Ability to apply scientific principles and techniques to make observations and data correlations.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Proficiency in statistical analysis (JMP, Statistica etc preferred)

To enable you to perform in this future talent opportunity:

Education required:

• Pursuing a BS degree in Chemistry or STEM field.
• A cumulative GPA of 3.0 is preferred.

Other requirements:

• Candidates must be eligible to work on a full-time basis during the internship (40 hours/week) for 12 weeks.
• Provide your own funding for relocation and commuting.
• Able to work onsite at our Richmond, VA location.
• Must be eligible to work in the US at the time of, and for the duration of employment. Employees will be required to furnish evidence of US work authorization.

Expected start date: June 2025

We invite you to apply as soon as possible. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity. And we are joined by new talent, every day. We accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/