Associate Manager, Formulation / Chemistry

SC Johnson has been leading with purpose for 140 years, building high-quality products and iconic brands found in homes, schools and businesses in virtually every country worldwide – including OFF!®, Raid®, Glade®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, method®, Autan®, Baygon®, Mr Muscle®, Duck®, Lysoform® and more. The 13,000 people of our global, fifth-generation family company are committed to making the world a better place today and for future generations.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the Associate Manager, Formulation / Chemistry with SC Johnson Professional, located at SC Johnson's global headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, you will play a key role in shaping the future of professional cleaning and hygiene solutions. You'll help bring innovative, effective, and sustainable products to market, translating customer needs and emerging technologies into differentiated solutions that make a meaningful impact across healthcare, industrial, food manufacturing, and institutional environments.

In this highly collaborative role, you will independently lead technical projects spanning new product development, product enhancements, and emerging technologies across cleaning, disinfecting, and floor care. Partnering with cross-functional and global teams, you will help advance our surface hygiene innovation pipeline, strengthen our iconic brand platforms, and deliver solutions that meet evolving customer and business needs.

Success in this role requires a combination of technical expertise, innovative thinking, strong project leadership, and the ability to influence across functions. You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful innovation initiatives, explore new technologies, and contribute to the continued growth and evolution of SC Johnson Professional's surface hygiene portfolio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead new product development (NPD) and existing product development (EPD) projects from concept through formulation, validation, scale-up, and launch, ensuring alignment with quality, cost, and timeline objectives.
• Drive formulation innovation across cleaning, disinfecting, floor care, and emerging hygiene technologies, developing differentiated solutions that address customer needs and sustainability goals.
• Support long-term innovation strategy by contributing technical insights to the five-year surface hygiene roadmap and executing assigned innovation initiatives.
• Design and evaluate technical studies, including product performance, microbial efficacy, stability, packaging compatibility, and surface compatibility, in collaboration with internal experts and external laboratories.
• Partner with Regulatory and Product Safety teams to ensure product development and claims comply with applicable requirements, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and European Union Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR).
• Identify and assess emerging technologies, ingredients, suppliers, and sustainable chemistry opportunities through technical research, benchmarking, and feasibility testing.
• Support commercialization and continuous improvement, including manufacturing trials, technology transfer, troubleshooting, product maintenance, and technical risk assessment.
• Lead assigned iconic brand platform innovation projects, identifying opportunities for meaningful product upgrades, differentiated claims, delivery improvements and multi-generation growth aligned with the Manager’s platform roadmap.
• Monitor competitor products, regulatory developments and customer trends; communicate actionable findings and opportunities to the platform team.
• Demonstrate expertise in the new Product Lifecycle Management (PIE) system, including material and finished good record searches, product data traceability, technical documentation and coordination of required updates with appropriate system owners.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline with 5+ years of formulation or product development experience; Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience; or PhD with relevant applied product development experience
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States

PREFERRED EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

• Experience in professional cleaning, hygiene, disinfectants, floor care, or related product technologies.
• Knowledge of formulation science, cleaning performance, antimicrobial efficacy, product stability, and material compatibility.
• Familiarity with EPA, BPR, and regional regulatory testing and product claim requirements.
• Experience with NPD/EPD processes, supplier collaboration, product scale-up, and manufacturing support.
• Understanding of sustainable product development, including ingredient selection, packaging, and environmental impact.
• Proficiency with PIE or similar Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems, including data management and documentation.
• Strong project management, technical writing, communication, and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead technical projects, prioritize deliverables, and escalation risks.
• Experience designing experiments, analyzing data, troubleshooting technical challenges, and driving product development.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Full time, Monday through Friday, business hours
• Up to 20% travel, domestic and international
• Remote work is available once a week after 90-day onboarding period
• Office and Laboratory work environment

Inclusion & Diversity

We’re a global business, with people from every culture, ethnicity, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and ability. We recognize the breadth of human experience, and we work to celebrate it. It is our goal to build a diverse, inclusive and supportive work environment where all people can thrive.

At SC Johnson, we believe people achieve their best when they collaborate and work together in person. We value connection to strengthen teamwork, accelerate problem solving, and drive innovation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of the Company is to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, gender identity, gender expression, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in any active or reserve component of the U.S. or state military forces, genetic history or information or any other category protected by law.

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