Liquids & Capsules Performance, Claims & KBS Scientist

ENGINEERINGUK; Bebington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team as a Scientist in a laboratory-based role focused on performance and claims for household products. This position offers the opportunity to work with leading brands, conducting experiments to improve product formulations and sustainability. You will leverage your skills in data analysis and digital tools to support the development of biodegradable products, contributing to a cleaner future. If you are passionate about science and consumer products, this is a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Enhanced leave policies

Health and wellbeing support

Mentoring and coaching programs

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Physical Sciences or Engineering required.
• Experience in FMCG or detergents sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conduct laboratory experiments for performance testing and product assessment.
• Analyze data and report results using digital tools and Microsoft applications.
• Manage budgets and prepare materials for external laboratories.

Skills

Organisation

Communication

Time-management

Data analysis

Digital tools (MS Excel, PowerPoint)

Education

BSc or MSc in Physical Sciences or Engineering

Tools

ELN

SDC

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

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Job Title: Liquids & Capsules Performance, Claims & KBS Scientist

Location: Port Sunlight

Work-Level: WL1 Band 3

BACKGROUND

Do you have a passion for innovation and consumer products? Do you love getting stuck into data and bringing it to life? Do you want to be a part of Homecare's Clean Future agenda, fundamentally changing the way that some of the world's best-known laundry liquids are created, manufactured and packaged, and helping to swap chemicals made from fossil fuels for renewable ingredients, creating low carbon footprint products, and making our formulations fully biodegradable to leave no trace behind? If you do, then you'll want to know that Unilever's Global Homecare Category is recruiting for its Laundry Liquids Design team at Port Sunlight, Wirral.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an exciting team and develop your skills and career working on some of the world's biggest laundry brands such as Persil, Surf and Omo.

Understanding and meeting the needs of our consumers is at the heart of laundry product development. As a part of Claims, KBS and Performance team you will work in a multi-disciplinary business environment, ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical insights and data to support our Global Innovation Portfolio. This 100% laboratory-based role will play an important part deploying performance tests under consumer relevant conditions for us to design winning formulations, support our product communications and develop and validate compelling product demonstrations. In Homecare R&D we adopt a digital first approach in designing and executing performance tests therefore we also expect the data capture as an outcome of all laboratory experiments using tools like ELN & SDC.

JOB PURPOSE

You will join the Claims, KBS and Performance group in Homecare Liquids & Capsules Global Research & Development team and work closely with Global formulation, digital and performance team members. Execute laboratory experiments for product assessment, claim support and demo development purposes and generate reports in ELN & SDC.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working with Performance Claims and KBS team members to execute small and big scale wash experiments for performance and sensory testing serving to formulation assessment, new technology assessment, performance transference modelling work, claim support and product demonstrations.
• Making the necessary preparation to conduct performance test incl. fabric order, stain order and preparing laboratory set up. Post wash measurements using appropriate equipment and data analysis.
• Capable of working with different set of equipment in laboratory including washing machines, dryers and small-scale appraisal equipment.
• Planning and organising fabrics, stains and standard test monitor stocks to meet testing requirements.
• Post wash data analysis and reporting results with high quality using digital tools and Microsoft tools like excel, power point and word.
• Capturing and reporting the outcome of experiments using digital tools (ELN & SDC)
• Budget management for the Claims & KBS team using Easy budget tool and reporting the status monthly.
• Preparing and sending fabrics, stain materials and products to external laboratories.
• Attending appropriate team meetings and making the laboratory work plan in weekly basis with an agile flexible mindset.
• Work according to laboratory safety rules to keep laboratory environment clean and safe for all

ALL ABOUT YOU

KEY SKILLS

• Good organisation and time-management
• Excellent communication and bias for action
• Ability to use digital tools like MS Excel, Power Point, ELN & SDC and report the outcome of an experiment in a clear concise way.
• Ability to work with in multi-functional teams both internal and external.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• BSc or MSc (or equivalent) in Physical Sciences or Engineering (Textiles or Chemistry).

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience of FMCG or the detergents sector
• Textile testing / Washing machine testing experience

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This job is 100% laboratory based and requires a full-time laboratory presence.

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 Kyron Dias 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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