R&D PC Oral Care Processing Lead/R&D PC Oral Care Processing Sr. Specialist

Business Title: R&D PC Oral Care Processing Lead/R&D PC Oral Care Processing Sr. Specialist

Location: Mumbai HURC

Reporting Manager: R&D PC Oral Care Global Capabilities Process Leader

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Business Context:

The Oral Care category, through its Billion Smiles Mission, strives to bring healthy teeth and beautiful smiles to 1 billion consumers every day. Unilever Oral Care is a market leader in the key markets it operates in. The category represents a huge growth opportunity for Unilever through investing in brands with superior technology and consumer benefits.

As the Assistant Processing Manager, you will develop future processing and formulation technologies for our oral care brands.  A key aspect of the role will be to apply digital tools to accelerate innovation cycle.  The role will involve some pilot plant and lab scale work; there will be some practical, hands-on element to this role.

This role is based in Mumbai and reports to the WL2 Oral Care Processing Manager Future Chassis.  

There could be infrequent travel to local 3P providers, suppliers and local sourcing units.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage processing workstreams associated with the development of the next generation of toothpaste formulations.

• Apply personal expertise in chemical engineering and physico-chemical sciences to identify and co-develop new processes and formulations

• Partner within Oral Care teams to effectively handover new formulations and processes to the premarket innovation stage. 

• Deliver practical digitalisation of OC pilot plant in MB and champion the use of Digital Manufacturing Platform (DMP) within the Pilot Plant and Oral Care R&D community.  

• Mine DMP data sets to develop scale up insights for Oral Care.

• Partner with Oral Care Science and Technology Process Engineering and DRD team to deliver process and formulation capability programmes.

• Identify and coordinate 3Ps to deliver physical characterisation tools and measures.

• Personally conduct some stability and measurement studies to characterise products.

• Work with team members to identify IP opportunities.

Key Skills:

• At least a first degree with relevant industrial experience, in Chemical Engineering or a closely related physical sciences discipline.

• Ideally, experience of in Oral Care or Personal Care formulation and processing including an understanding of engineering principles and the underlying physico-chemical science.  Experience of processing and formulation of semi-solid and liquid products in other FMCG categories will be considered. 

• Experience of digital and modelling tools and their application.

• Good understanding of rheology principles, practical use and data analysis.

• Experience of product microstructure characterisation methods and interpretation.  

• Ability to use statistical tools such as JMP.

• Understanding of safety and quality principles relating to processing (GMP).

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Competencies/SOLs:

• Passion for high performance: able to problem-solve, seeking opportunities for new efficiencies.  Takes responsibility and accountability for execution of workplans and communication of results.

• Personal mastery: sets high standards for themselves and others they collaborate with.  Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

• Agility: able to pivot quickly and remove obstacles.

• Scientific and technical curiosity are essential in this role. Continually learning and developing new skills and expertise.
  

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