Home Care Formulation Scientist

ENGINEERINGUK; Bebington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic R&D team at a leading global company, focusing on innovative home care products. As a formulation scientist, you'll work on exciting projects that blend creativity with scientific rigor, developing sustainable solutions for well-known brands. This role offers the chance to collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to groundbreaking product innovations, making a real impact in the consumer goods sector. If you're passionate about formulation science and eager to drive technological advancements, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Options

Enhanced Leave Policies

Health Checks and Mental Health Support

Mentoring and Coaching

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemistry or similar area.
• Strong laboratory formulation experience, preferably with polymers.

Responsibilities

• Translate consumer needs into new product ideas.
• Lead the development of new technologies and formulations.

Skills

Laboratory Formulation

Colloid Science

Rheology

Digital Automation

Planning and Organization

Education

Degree in Chemistry

Job description

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Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job Title: Home Care Formulation Scientist

Business Function: R&D

Location: Port Sunlight R&D

Work-Level: WL1RH4

JOB PURPOSE

Comfort, Persil, Omo, Cif, Domestos are amongst the world's most recognizable Home Care brands developed by Unilever's Global Development Centre in the Northwest. This role is an amazing chance to be part of the HC R&D team that partners closely with Marketing, Procurement and Supply Chain to deliver new and winning product innovations around the globe.

Within this team there is a permanent position open for a colloid scientist to join the Fabric Enhancers team at our world class R&D Centre in Port Sunlight.

We are looking for an inquisitive and passionate colloid formulation scientist to help deliver a portfolio of innovative products that will delight the consumer. You will be involved in driving the development of new technologies and formulations for Fabric enhancers to develop superior and sustainable products for our core global brand Comfort. You will also be responsible for developing new formulation capabilities such as automated performance assessment and creation of digital modelling approaches to formulation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Translation of consumer and business needs to generate ideas for new technologies and products
  

• Work with relevant partners (suppliers, academics) to identify, assess and develop new technologies
  

• Lead the development and formulation of new products (eg performance and stability assessment), across formats.
  

• Development of new digital and automated capability for Fabric enhancers, and support the development of digitisation of product development
  

ALL ABOUT YOU

We are looking for people with the right attitude, mindset, and competencies. Experience of working in Home or Personal Care formulation roles is an added bonus but not essential

• A degree (or equivalent) in Chemistry or similar area
  

• Strong laboratory formulation experience and expertise, preferably a background in polymers and surfactants in solution, colloid science, a good understanding of rheology, and DoE.
  

• A creative, logical, and analytical mind with ability to drive their work program forward
  

• Experience of applying digital and automation approaches to work program
  

• Great people skills, building and maintaining relationships. Ability to work well both independently and as part of a wider cross-functional team
  

• Good planning, organization, and communication skills
  

NOTES

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your Future Fit Plan if possible.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.

Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner Hannah Cottier on [e-mail]

What we offer

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 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 embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).

Relocation to the UK

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.

Company

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts. The personal contribution you make means you feel good about what you do and proud that you have a career with a higher purpose. Be empowered to make a positive impact, by bringing your purpose into action.

Be a force for good. Unleash your curiosity and pioneering spirit to make our business win and grow. Use your confidence to challenge the status quo for the better, while you learn, grow and make a positive impact .

"Diversity & Inclusion is one of the things that we want Unilever to be famous for.

This means making sure our business is fair, attracting and retaining

the very best talent and helping them unlock their full potential."

Dove, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Lynx, Knorr, Surf. Our world-famous brands are totally different – and as people, so are we. Be surrounded by individually different but like-minded people who share your values, commitment and desire to start or pursue a career across different cultures and levels of seniority where you do good things every day. Bring your real self to work, here we combine our differences to achieve greater things.

Develop into your best self. Get inspired by leaders and peers and create life-shaping experiences for yourself. Unilever offers an inspirational working environment where you will be mentored and nurtured by bright minds and purpose-led leaders. Use your skills and knowledge, and the tools we provide you to experience all that Unilever can offer across brands and around the world. You have the ability to craft a flexible – and global – career.

Our policies & flexible working

At Unilever, we have a range of market-leading, family-friendly and flexible working policies, which enable our employees to balance their day-to-day responsibilities.

These policies and practices include:

• Agile working, which gives employees the possibility to work remotely and flex their own hours, whilst ensuring business needs are met.
• Flexible working arrangements including, but not limited to, part-time and job share opportunities.
• Enhanced leave policies - all employees taking maternity or shared parental leave have up to 16 weeks’ paid leave and some eligible employees can have up to 39 weeks’ paid leave. In addition, our Maternity & Paternity Services portal provides online resources to support employees at all stages of parenthood, as well as tailored guidance for line managers.
• Practical support including, nursery benefits and back-up care for parents and carers.
• A constant focus on wellbeing for employees, including regular health checks, mental health support and our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a strong culture of mentoring, training and learning across the organisation, with a range of resources and initiatives available:

• Mentoring and coaching
• Leadership and general business skills training, including unconscious bias
• Learning for all, via access to internal and external resources
• Workshops which support personal and team development.

Our ambition: unlocking talent through disability inclusion

The World Health Organization estimates that there are one billion people in the world currently living with a disability. That’s about 15% of the global population, or 1 in 7 of us. And the statistics suggest that people living with disabilities are among the most marginalised populations in the world in terms of employment and educational opportunity.

Removing the barriers facing people living with disability is a priority for our business. It isn’t just the right thing to do – we believe that creating equality of opportunity will unlock a huge pool of talent. It also gets to the heart of the ambition to ‘leave no one behind’ – and could contribute to the five Sustainable Development Goals which explicitly reference disability and to the wider sustainable development agenda.

In 2018, we set ourselves global commitments to achieve by 2025:

• to be the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, and
• to increase the number of employees with disabilities to 5% of our total workforce.

These are ambitious targets. They involve transforming the way we recruit and train our people. And they mean adapting both the way we work and our workplaces, so that we can support people with disabilities to reach their full potential.

"We cannot be an inclusive organisation unless we ensure that we have created the conditions

and the culture for people with a disability to thrive."

We are keen to find out about your talent, and offer the support you need.

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