Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the nation’s most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we’re redefining what’s possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing. We’re proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.

Our strength is built on four core values: People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. 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. From manufacturing and quality control to distribution and customer experience, our teams work together to raise industry standards, expand access to critical medications, and improve outcomes for patients and providers across the country.

At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new role. It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that’s transforming healthcare at scale. We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level. Your ideas matter here, your development is supported, and the work you do has a direct impact on the lives of millions.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment where innovation, collaboration, and ambition come together, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s transform healthcare together.

POSITION SUMMARY

Director, Formulation Development (R&D) is a hands-on scientific expert developing and commercializing sterile injectable and nonsterile formulations across Empower’s 503A and 503B portfolio. The role personally advances products from concept through formulation, stability, packaging, scale-up, technical transfer, and launch across men’s health, women’s health, HRT, weight management, GLP-1, peptides and longevity, sexual health, dermatology, and wellness. Success requires deep compounding expertise, technical problem solving, execution rigor, and learning agility. AI selectively supports research and analysis while scientific judgment remains paramount. PharmD and pharmacist licensure are strongly preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Formulation And Product Development

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.
Product Optimization: Improves existing formulations, stability, packaging, beyond-use dates, production efficiency, and material utilization while troubleshooting raw-material, excipient, analytical, packaging, and production challenges.

Stability And Analytical Development

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.
Analytical Evaluation: Evaluates assay, pH, osmolality, particulate matter, sterility, endotoxins, antimicrobial effectiveness, and container closure integrity while coordinating internal and external analytical testing.
Technical Research: Conducts formulation research, literature reviews, and excipient evaluations for new products, using AI selectively to accelerate research while validating conclusions through scientific judgment and experimentation.

Scale Up And Commercialization

Process Development: Converts laboratory formulations into scalable production processes by establishing compounding methods, process parameters, equipment requirements, packaging configurations, specifications, and production instructions.