R&D PC Oral Care Sr. Specialist, Formulation & Processing

JOB TITLE: R&D PC Oral Care Sr. Specialist, Formulation & Processing
JOB LOCATION: Mumbai HURC

DEPARTMENT: Oral Care R&D, PC South Asia

CONTEXT:

The Oral Care category, through its Billion Smiles Mission, strives to bring healthy teeth and beautiful smiles to 1 billion consumers every day. Unilever Oral Care is the market leader in the key markets it operates in. The category represents a huge growth opportunity for Unilever through investing in brands with superior technology and consumer end benefits.
As an Oral Care formulator, you will be developing new technologies for our core oral care brands such as Close Up and Pepsodent.   You will apply formulation and measurement and skills to develop innovative products that are more sustainable, more cost efficient and deliver superior to consumer products.  

This role will be based in India (Mumbai) and will report to the Formulation Capabilities Manager in Mumbai.  

The role gives ample opportunities for personal development in diverse areas such as formulation development, processing, understanding UL and competitor formulations and technologies, smart product initiatives, patents, global working etc.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

The job responsibilities include:

• Formulation development for Oral Care including new chassis and actives.

• Design and reporting of formulation and stability studies.

• Use of statistics and digital tools for smart decision making

• Summarizing and presenting formulation development work and insights to local and global Oral Care teams.

• Contributing personal expertise and skills to building a wider community of Oral Care Global R&D formulators.

• Maintaining an up to date understanding of UL and competitor technologies.

• Designing and delivering data to enable IP filings.

• Providing support to manufacturing sites for issues related to product & process and carrying out main plant trials.

ABOUT YOU:

• Have scientific and technical curiosity with a willingness to learn new technical skills.

• Good listening and communication skills with stakeholders, peers, and team members

• Ability to work to deadlines, planning and managing own time.

• Team working across functions and geographies.

• Agile and resilient - able to be flexible in meeting team needs.

The candidate will have demonstrated:

• Experience of applying physical and chemical science knowledge to develop new products and/or measurements.

• Ability to design, record and report their own experiments.

• Very preferably, experience in use of digital tools and basic statistics in product development.

• Ability to working with globally located cross functional teams.

• Ability to create concise communications to a wide range of stakeholders and team members.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Candidate should hold an MSc (Chemistry), B.E. (Chemical Engineering), BPharm/M Pharm degree (or similar qualifications in a closely related subject).

• R&D experience part of which should preferably be as a formulator or process scientist.

• Preferably, experience in use of digital tools, experimental design and basic statistics

• Experience in formulation development in personal care, preferably oral care

• Experience in working across sites and geographies.

• Fluent written and spoken English.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.