R&d Associate

**Job Title**:R&D Associate - GDC, Hygiene & Surfaces

**Function**:Research/Development

**Work Location**:Unilever R&D Bangalore

**Reports to**: Senior Product Development Manager, Homecare

**Travel**: Yes, 10% of the Time

**ABOUT UNILEVER**
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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future. Unilever is reimagining the future of cleaning, and it starts with reinventing a century-old history of chemistry. Billions of people around the world are asking for products that are tough on germs and stains, and ever more convenient to use. But now, people also want these products to be kinder to the planet.

**Background and Scope**

Unilever is market leader in Cleaning and Hygiene Products has been growing well over several years. Homecare Innovation team is responsible for global design for Cif, Domestos and Living Hygiene brands, one of the fastest growing categories in Unilever and is at the heart of USLP. The team’s responsibilities span new product development, improving value equation of current products and managing specifications for product manufacture/quality. The team is also responsible for driving programs to meet Unilever’s ambitious Bright Future Agenda.

**Roles and responsibilities**:

- He/She will work with team to develop new products or to enhance performance of existing products related to Hard surface cleaning formulations in Cif across different formats.
- He/She will lead specific aspects of the project & interact with cross functional team members (SEAC, Regulatory, Patents, Processing, Regional R&D, Brand, S&T teams).
- He/She will work with team to build capability in the identified areas.
- He/She will leverage digital tools to minimize experiments, maximize output & speed up program delivery

**Skills and experience**
- Education: Graduate degree in Chemical Engineering / Chemistry/ Material Science with First class
- Background/Experience: Strong fundamentals in chemical engineering &/or Chemistry, proficient with digital tools and data analysis
- Technical skills: Good understanding on surfactant and interfacial science, formulation design & development
- Soft skills: Teamwork, multi-tasking, good communication, presentation and writing skills, Creative, Should have ability to analyze data and present data to internal team and stakeholders
- Digital: Should be proficient in word, excel, power point and should have apt to learn new Unilever digital tools (PLM, PHAROS, ELN, LIMS)

**Leadership Behaviours**
- Personal Mastery
- Agility
- Passion for high performance

**Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion**

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life 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.