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Job Title: Formulation Research Scientist

Location: Port Sunlight Research Lab

JOB PURPOSE

The role of the Science & Technology team is to deliver breakthrough technologies and differentiated innovations to meet the needs and preferences of our consumers around the world. Within the Beauty & Personal Care division, we are building new, world-class capability to help us develop innovations that out-perform the competition and build equity for our leading brands.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced formulation/colloid scientist to join the Science & Technology Product Engineering team at Port Sunlight and the Materials Innovation Factory (Liverpool), to contribute to the on-going development and optimisation of product formulations for Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care.

The role requires strong team working capability across multi-disciplinary project teams. Ideally suited to an energetic, self-motivated, independent and resourceful research scientist with excellent people skills, and a desire to further develop their scientific skills. The successful candidate will be involved in a range of internal and external partnerships, both academic and industrial, targeting the development of new technologies and capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role reports to a Research Formulation Manager and includes the following responsibilities:

• Design, plan and conduct experiments for the development of new products that meet consumer requirements.
• Use core formulation, colloidal science and physical characterisation understanding to investigate and design novel products
• Build characterisation methods and investigate product microstructure and performance
• Use structured approaches for capturing and analysing data with the ambition to create data driven models
• Deliver high quality written reports and oral communications to the team and stakeholders.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• MSc degree with relevant industrial R&D experience or PhD in physical chemistry, colloid science, materials science
• Experience in formulation and processing of Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care products and characterisation of their microstructure.
• Awareness of project management processes and delivering to tight deadlines.
• Ability to develop strong scientific networks.
• Experience in data handling, analysis including statistical methods is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of leading and/or working in multi-disciplinary teams is desirable.

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About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

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