Fields of Responsibility:
- Create a funnel of antimicrobial / preservative chemistries with technical specifications to highlight formulation compatibility parameters. Synergistic combination of actives to meet the performance of golden standards like Isothiazolinone (IT), Phenoxyethanol (POE).
- Consolidate formulation expertise to guide formulation exploration program design, and evolution of program design on completion of experimental design across Home Care.
- Deliver technical knowledge to guide formulation space, providing deep understanding of formulation ingredients, parameters for exploration and knowledge of formulation / technology strategy to ensure experimental designs are future fit.
- Manage the prototype development program, and team delivering those prototypes, for Home Care categories, ensuring robust sample development and the appropriate coordination and phasing of sample development and delivery.
- Interface with Global Preservation Team, Global Design teams, Digital R&D, SEAC, Regulatory & prototype development team to ensure an aligned program is in place.
- Manage external contract research organizations to make formulation prototypes and 3P analytical partners to carry out efficacy testing. Manage Open Innovation Resource Sharing model to deliver innovation with speed.
Other Relevant Information Having Information Having a Bearing on the Job:
This role will be responsible to strengthen hygiene/preservation capability in Unilever and bring in competitive advantage.
Environment:
The role is mainly focused on managing both (i) external partners and (ii) internal stakeholders.
Problem Solving:
- In this role, technical skills on formulation development and next gen alternative preservation will be required. This will encompass understanding of various formulation chassis across Home Care, incorporate future fit technologies and create new disruptive innovations that bring in competitive edge.
- High degree on problem solving skills will be required for this job. There are various dimensions of technical problems to be solved, and the incumbent needs to work together with Global Design teams, Global preservation team, procurement, SEAC, Regs and legal functions to provide solutions/claims support. The incumbent needs to have a strong influencing skills and stakeholder management skills.
- Working external partners to deliver project goals will be key.
Resource to be Managed Under your Authority:
- Interact with 3P / external partners, external resources.
Personal Profile:
- M.Sc./M.Tech./Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chem Eng with an experience in HC formulations.
- Experience in surfactant sciences, product rheology, water activity, partition coefficient of actives will be preferred.
- 2-3 years of experience in handling HC formulations.
- Experience working academic partners, external R&D labs preferred.
- Strong scientific and technical curiosity with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Ability to work autonomously in situations of ambiguity.
- Ability to challenge, persuade and motivate teams to think differently and embrace different ways of working.
- Comfortable with working on several diverse technology fronts at once.
- Strong technical writing skill, verbal communication skill.