Material Chemist Odour Control

JOB TITLE: Material Chemist Odour Control

JOB FUNCTION: Science & Technology

REPORTS TO: Research Scientist

SCOPE: PC

WORK LOCATION: Unilever R&D Bangalore

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Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job
Personal Care (PC) business is focused on being the best-in-class company for Personal care products with personalized desirable experiences and beauty solutions for whole-body wellness. The business is committed to address (a) Big Unmet consumer need/insight/idea (b) Right to WIN with superior proposition with product love & noticeable superiority (c). clean beauty product with reduce environmental footprint. The role of the Science and Technology (S&T-PC-Physical science) pillar within R&D is to deliver breakthrough “Differentiated Technologies, with capabilities” to meet PC goals around the world. S&T-PC-Physical science team is focused on building future fit skills team and talent in “Advanced Materials, Measurements delivering long lasting freshness for whole body & personalization Integrated with Digital”.

S&T - PC-Physical science team is employing advanced materials & measurements science for superior multi targeted consumer needs with perceivable efficacy and care across odour & freshness benefits. The teams focus is to deliver faster and cost-effective Innovations through Advanced Material Pillar leveraging “Computational chemistry”. The purpose is to build differentiated innovation roadmap & impactful claims by combining (a) Volatiles adsorption chemistry or chelation chemistry (b). Material – colloids chemistry. To meet our purpose, we need candidate with interdisciplinary skills of chemistry with appreciation of relevant digital tools expertise. The candidate should be able to demonstrate the ability to learning new digital / computational chemistry capabilities, work on their own initiative and a desire to continually develop scientific skills.

Main Accountabilities

• Develop In vitro capabilities & Technology pipeline to deliver consumer benefit of superior perceivable freshness benefit.

• Build mechanistic insights for active performance via understanding of chelation/ organo metallic binding, adsorption and characterize efficacy.

• Drive Design of Experiments to strengthen expertise area through proof of science.

• Build, learn and apply skills in cheminformatics skill to led technology funnel.

• Build IP funnel for differentiated & exclusive consumer benefits

• Delivers effective reporting of scientific data, including peer-reviewed publications

• Communicate and work closely with global team to incorporate new technologies into product

• Apply Growth Mind set through speed & teamwork
  

Key Skills

• General Chemistry (preferred organometallic/inorganic chemistry)

• Experience in volatile organic compounds screening

• Basic appreciation and knowledge in cheminformatics

• Be pro-active and self-motivated to engage with project leaders and team members.

• Be creative. Have team spirit, strong responsibility and clear logistic thinking.
  

Relevant Experience

• M.Sc. in Organic / Physical Chemistry/Inorganic or Material Chemistry

• Hands on experience in synthesis and characterization on organic/inorganic complexes.

• Experience computational chemistry, quantum mechanics & DFT. 

Standard of Leadership

• Purpose & Service

• Personal Mastery

• Agility

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