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Microbiology Home Care R&D Manager
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Science Technology
💰 Salary Not shared
📊 Market 4,500 GBP–7,500 GBP/mo (54,000 GBP–90,000 GBP/yr)
About the Company
The company has a Preservation team based at Port Sunlight, Merseyside, and a global technical expertise centre to support the Global Home Care Design and Deploy business in partnership with regional sister laboratories in other parts of the world.
About the Role
The Home Care microbiology manager position is to support business innovations by ensuring products of today and the future are microbiologically safe by design. The role is for Microbiology Manager and the successful applicant will be responsible for the overall Home Care preservation programme to ensure current innovations, future formats and new preservative options are safe by design to allow existing and future business continuity.
Responsibilities
- ● Proactively define and lead a strategic microbiology work programme across the entire global Home Care portfolio.
- ● Work with the Preservation 2.0 team to help deliver the strategic programme - Lead programme work streams from HC portfolio.
- ● Lead the evaluation of existing and new preservation technologies across Home Care to ensure products are safe by design from a formulation/preservation and processing perspective, working as part of multi-disciplinary project team.
- ● Bring inhouse new industry insights in product preservation and microbiology field.
- ● Provide advice, pragmatic troubleshooting guidance and issue management as the Unilever Home Care microbiology expert.
- ● Work with Global Microbiology team on methods across R&D and manufacturing.
- ● Maintain a strong business focus, awareness of internal and external developments, establish and build strong networks and influence stakeholders.
- ● Drive the implementation of digital tools to allow future fit data capture and modelling.
- ● Advise and work with Home Care format team leaders to identify and implement preservation opportunities.
- ● Line manage a team of scientists and provide support to regional microbiologists, including coaching and mentoring for delivery and skills development.
- ● Work with core internal functions such as Quality, Regulatory, Patents, Safety & Environment Centre as required to deliver the programme.
Requirements
- ● Proven science and technology expertise in Microbiology or related field
- ● Proven experience in leading technical work programmes in innovation projects
- ● Knowledge of the innovation process and programmes
- ● Delivery focus and customer relationship management
- ● People leadership and communication
- ● Teamworking in multidisciplinary teams
- ● Experience of successfully working with external partners
- ● Flexibility and adaptability, experience of working in different programmes and contexts
- ● Ability to write scientific papers and reports
- ● Experience and aptitude for applied microbiology, industrial microbiology or preservation
- ● Self-starting individual with entrepreneurial drive and passion for translating new ideas into new technology opportunities
- ● Communication/Networking, including being able to present complex information using appropriate language, both verbal and written
- ● Team working - working in multidisciplinary teams including being able to establish and communicate objectives to team members
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