Job Description

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We are looking to hire a HC Bars Technology Specialist, in our Home Care South Asia team based in Mumbai:

Purpose & Context

Position in South Asia CDC Home Care, reporting to Technology Manager for HC bars. No direct subordinates.

This position is exposed to a broad and global environment within Unilever.

The candidate should have a growth mindset and solid communication skills to enable active participation on innovation projects. In the business context, this position will interact with the bars team in HC R&D, S&T and P2W suppliers for technology developments.

Key Deliverables:

Input into product design for Home care application considering immediate and long term business strategy

Basic appreciation of product design principles

In depth understanding of consumer insights, market needs & how to use it for product design

Presenting technology recommendations and solutions for maintaining product superiority

Devising protocols for testing new technologies and their applicability in R&D projects, through literature searches, analytical and additional experimentation and data analysis

Designing DOE for lab scale and pilot scale execution of promising ideas and technology solutions

Drawing conclusions from experiments and trials, and preparing summary reports.

Carrying out standard pilot plant scale experiments/ trials and establishing scale up feasibility.

Handling of multiple product design requirements (E2E mix coordination) while partnering with brand, finance, procurement, SC

Execution and reporting Main Plant Trials in Factories independently.

Drawing up (extensive) final report on (sub) projects following global standards of the category along with ensuring SHE policy.

Designing creative demonstrations of product strengths for its use in market activation

Helping manage technical interfaces with key external suppliers/bodies and internally with other entities/individuals/stakeholders to help build global capability network.

Being familiar with using digital tools like Pharos, SAP PLM etc.

Understanding around Data modelling, digital tools like JMP, PowerBI will be an added advantage.

Required Professional skills

Proactive attitude, team player

Analytical mindset

Formulation design expertise

Understanding of surfactants and other HC ingredients

Experience with HC product formats such as bars, liquids and powders

Statistics \xe2\x80\x93 Design of Experiments

Excellent communication skills/Presentation skills

Travelling for MPTs

Well versed with digital opportunities within R&D

Required Experience

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in chemistry/chemical engineering from premier institutes, Preferred: Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Science (Physical chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Engineering)

Minimum 2 years experience in Processing/Product development/ other R&D functions.

FMCG, Chemical, Paint, Pharmaceutical

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