Fragrance Design Assistant Manager

Job Title: Fragrance Design Assistant Manager

Location: IIT Bombay

Work Level: 1D

Want to Change The World?

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty, Personal and Home Care products selling in over 190 countries and used by 3.7 billion consumers every day. Unilever has more than 400 brands used in homes around the world, including Dove, Sure, TRESemmé, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Comfort, Persil and Surf. As one of the world’s largest users of fragrances, we recognise that creating exceptional fragrances is at the heart of delivering extraordinary consumer experiences and driving desire at scale.

To achieve our ambition, Unilever Fragrance House (UFH) is undertaking a global fragrance transformation, leveraging expert inhouse fragrance teams to craft unmissably superior fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups.

Job Purpose:

The Fragrance Design Assistant Manager will be responsible for creating fragrance design rules and digital models, to help improve stability and performance of fragrances via design of experiments covering fragrance ingredients and chassis components. 

Main Accountabilities:

• Mapping fragrance raw materials and chassis for performance and stability studies in different formats for HC, PC and BW categories.
• Design robust screening protocols across formats – neat PRM, fragrance oils, in base, aged base under various torturous conditions (heat, light, UV, moisture). Generate analytical and performance data via internal and external partners. Identify simple pass/fail criteria with accelerated tests.
• Establish clear technical criteria for PRM and fragrance chassis suitability, including malodour formation, discoloration, loss of key olfactive notes, phase separation, viscosity change, deposition/release performance, cost impact and manufacturability. Use these criteria to recommend whether materials should be preferred, used with restrictions, reformulated around, or avoided in specific formats.
• Identify mechanism leading to instability and validate solutions.
• Create lab capabilities to produce samples for stability and performance testing.

All About You:

We are looking for an individual with the right attitude, mindset (always learning), and competencies (take ownership) to support the UFH Science & Technology Programme. Any experience working with an external Fragrance House would be beneficial. The successful candidate will be given a lot of operational freedom and should have the ability to think on their feet.

The following qualifications would be required:  

• Educational Background & Experience: PostGraduation in Chemistry/Physical Chemistry, Graduation in Chemical Engineering. Understanding of surfactant science. Knowledge of perfume raw materials. Knowledge of formulations in key formats in HC, PC and B&W. Process knowledge for Liquids, Bars and Aerosols.
• Understanding of Surfactant Science
• Fragrance and PRM knowledge – Working knowledge of perfume raw materials, accords, cheminformatics, structure property relationships.
• Experimental design and data interpretation
• Results oriented and highly driven to achieve success.
• Clear communicator

You will apply a digital-first mindset towards your way of working to ensure that data/insights are captured and utilised across the business, and that all data is digitised.

Key Stakeholders

• Head of Unilever Fragrance House S&T  

NOTES

What we offer 

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 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 (unilever.com).