Unilever Hiring for Hair Care Sr. Product Designer, South Asia BU at Mumbai, India Full Time

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We are looking to hire Senior Research Associate for our Hair Category in Beauty & Well Being team based in Mumbai:

Hindustan Unilever Limited is the leading FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) player in India. Hair is one of the fastest growing categories of HUL (Hindustan Unilever Limited) in South Asia. We have leadership position in hair care market in India with >50% market share with leading brands like Clinic Plus, Dove, Sunsilk, TRESemme and Indulekha to name a few. We are constantly innovating to delight our consumers with more exciting, superior products with focus on purposeful brand growth by sustainable products and ingredients.

Natural and Ayurveda is ever emerging trend in FMCG. Natural & Ayurveda market is expanding as consumers are increasingly preferring functional Natural & Ayurvedic ingredients-based personal care products over chemical/synthetic actives.

Current position is part of Naturals & Ayurveda (COE) part of hair care R&D under Beauty and Wellbeing category. The current role require work independently in technical workstream under Indulekha hair care portfolio. The role would involve new product & formulation development, value creation initiatives, driving current product portfolio, managing product quality and specifications, interfacing with cross-functional team.

Key Role & Responsibility

• Develop formulations, prototypes, and mixes as desired by the project & business teams.

• Understanding of natural, herbal & ayurvedic active ingredients.

• Working closely with ayurvedic experts, understanding the need gaps, pain points and integrate the relevant points in product design.

• Provide support in development of the understanding of the technologies that will help drive meet the Indulekha brand ambitions. understanding competitor formulation strategy and develop insights to derive competitive advantages.

• Developing robust product specification for implementation.

• Ensure compliance to Internal Unilever protocols, External regulatory environment, while developing formulation with respect to commitment to safety, environment, claim support, specification management etc.

• Ensure compliance to product, pack, stability study protocols and reports

• Ensure Process Validation Protocol & Reports

• Work with the Processing and Supply Chain teams, develop manufacturing processes to scale the product manufacture from lab to pilot to main plant, estimate the CAPEX (Capital Expenditure)

  Key Interfaces

• Global and regional contacts: TPLs (TECHNICAL PROJECT LEADER), Fragrance managers, Supply Chain, Procurement, S&T team,

• Lateral contacts: Supplier partners such as ayurvedic & herbal suppliers, Essential oil & fragrance suppliers, and other technology providers.

  Skills/competencies :

• Thorough understanding on pre-formulations, proto-typing and product development.

• Strong technical and hands on experience in hair and /or skin care categories and expect to think and innovate disruptive ideas for the brand.

• In-depth understanding of the herb processing, process of Designing and Deploying differentiated products on time in full.

• Strong technical and scientific approach to product design and troubleshooting.

• Basic understanding of regulatory & legal framework related to hair care products would be valuable

• Experience in digital tools & relevant search engines for R&D is desirable

• Excellent presentation & communication skill

• Identification of risks and development of mitigation plans.

• Ability to work and manage multiple stakeholders.

  . Experience (Profile and Years)

• 3-5+ years’ experience in GDC/CDC.

• A well-established record of accomplishment of delivery.

• Good understanding of Hair Care category will be a plus.

• A well-developed networking and cross functional team management.

  Leadership Behaviours

• Growth mindset

• Bias for Action

• Strong purpose driven

• Team Alignment

  Qualification

MSc (Organic Chemistry / Pharmaceutical), M Pharm (Pharmaceutics/Pharmacognosy), M. Tech chemical /Cosmetic

Job Category: Research/Development

Job Type: Product Dev Technician

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals