Lakme Colour Cosmetics R&d Designer, India

ABOUT UNILEVER:
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that strive to improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us every day. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life - giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best.

We are looking to hire a LAKME Color Cosmetics R & D Designer in our Skin Cleansing team based in Mumbai:
ABOUT UNILEVER:
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that strive to improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us every day. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life - giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best.

We are looking to hire a R&D designer for Lakme colour cosmetics based in Mumbai.

“WANT TO BE PART OF SOMETHING “IRRESISTIBLE?”

JOIN Lakme Colours Team

The Lakme Product development team is looking for exceptional formulation designer to join our innovation team to contribute to the continuing success of our Lakme colour cosmetics brand. This is an exciting chance for a job designed to offer individuals the opportunity to work with product development in a more holistic end-to-end approach.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

- carry out a holistic end-to-end product design role, working in all aspects of product development, from formulation design to scale up for manufacturing: Build-Scaleup-Own
- work with the Brand and Category design teams to develop and land innovations and new technologies and formats to India and emerging market opportunities
- design and implement new projects for quick innovations, including work with global 3rd party across Europe, Asia and India
- opportunity to lead projects as a Design Project Leader, extending the end-to-end experience to incorporate the development and delivery of the product story and claims
- deliver cost effective formulations and processing optimizations activities
- Design “Trend Innovations” to befit the bi-annual Lakme Fashion Week

You will work within a dedicated and highly ambitious team on the development of high impact brand innovation. We offer an agile and open-minded environment with strong, proactive, passionate thinkers who are constantly seeking to improve purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth. Our technologies and products designed in India are benchmarked to International brands and compete them in market place.

As a member of the Processing team, you will have the chance to collaborate with and guide multi-disciplinary teams and external partners to create products consumers want and love.

JOB PURPOSE

The individual with the right profile for this role:

- You’re a great translator: Must be able to translate the marketing ambitions and consumer expectations into products that delight and bring growth to the company
- You love to win and have fun doing it: A passion for success is a must. Detail orientated and able to manage multiple projects
- You have a special ability to connect people: you can connect people from different functions and have a great ability to talk about technical challenges in an easy engaging way

Main Accountabilities:

- Formulation development and recommendation for a wide range of products and formats. Development involves formulation proposal, design and evaluate experiments for validation and report as well as scale up and adapt bench-scale processes to pilot and manufacturing scale
- Understand risks and manage & mitigate those as appropriate
- Work closely with other functions, such as marketing and supply chain, to create, develop and deliver new products and innovations
- Work and communicate effectively with different departments and functions to deliver against the project network timings and identify and manage risks
- Write formulation and process specifications and implement processes at Unilever and third party manufacturing facilities. Design and execute trial proposals for manufacturing trials
- Provide leadership for technical aspects of project development (TPL), including project management activities, holding others accountable, ensure project delivery on agreed technical targets and support decision making process for product development related matters
- Work closely with other fun