Home Care R&D Specialist, UK and Ireland

About the Company

About the Role

Responsibilities

• ● The Home Care R&D Specialist partners with cross-functional teams to provide comprehensive R&D support for UK and Ireland Home Care activities, ensuring the successful execution of local projects, innovations and renovations. Key responsibilities include:
• ● Lead the execution of compliance requirements for new and relaunched products in line with mandatory Unilever policies and relevant legislation, including artwork approval, product registrations and authority-facing documentation.
• ● Support the implementation of product launches, innovations and renovations across allocated categories and brands in the UK and Ireland, bringing technical excellence, rigour and category understanding.
• ● Influence and educate customers, consumers and business partners by translating technical product benefits and technologies into clear, compelling and consumer-relevant language.
• ● Develop and deliver customer and consumer-facing technical communication, including product demonstrations, technical presentations and support for PR or media activities where required.
• ● Work closely with R&D, Regulatory, Legal and Brand teams to provide expert input on claims, communication strategies and risk assessments.
• ● Ensure robust technical claim substantiation dossiers and supporting documentation to ensure external brand communications are appropriately evidenced.
• ● Contribute to the technical innovation agenda by identifying emerging technologies, new claim territories and competitive insights through structured market and competitor analysis.
• ● Provide technical and product expertise during issues, incidents or crisis management.
• ● ALL ABOUT YOU
• ● Degree-level qualification in a science discipline, preferably Chemistry; A-level Chemistry or equivalent scientific grounding as a minimum.
• ● Proven experience working in a technical environment, ideally within R&D.
• ● Willingness to travel within the UK and Europe when required, approximately 5% of the role.
• ● KEY SKILLS REQUIRED
• ● Strong project management capability, with the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver multiple activities to agreed timelines.
• ● Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to build effective networks across local, regional and global teams.
• ● High attention to detail, particularly in relation to technical documentation, artwork, claims, compliance and product information.
• ● Highly organised, structured and systematic, with a logical approach to problem solving and decision making.
• ● Effective time management and resilience in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• ● Ability to gather, interpret and synthesise technical information from multiple sources, translating it into clear, relevant language for customers, consumers and business partners.

Benefits

• ● Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
• ● Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
• ● Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever Unilever.
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