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Form of workA well established and expanding manufacturer, providing personal care and healthcare solutions to a diverse range of industries is currently looking to hire a formulation/Development Chemist to their team.
Bringing prior post-graduate formulation skills from the personal care, homecare or biocide manufacturing industries, the successful applicant will join an expanding and stable R&D team.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage new product developments, not limited to new formulation work, from brief through to commercialisation. Ensuring project minutes are accurately documented and updated throughout
- Present projects to key stakeholders such as Commercial and Marketing teams where relevant.
- Present regularly throughout key stages of projects.
- Develop timelines capturing key milestones and launch dates
- Review briefs and create development plans, capturing how project requirements are going to be met, including claim substantiation, shelf-life determination, production trials and costings.
- Work closely with the Regulatory team ensuring project plans and formulation work have considered essential requirements that may be required to ensure the product is compliant.
- Be an active member in the laboratory ensuring any development tests such as stability samples and samples required for external testing are created accurately and promptly.
- Be an active member supporting the Commercial team with technical queries and samples.
- Be present where necessary for production trials which relate to development projects.
- Ensure all chemical ingredients have been reviewed and meet all necessary safety and regulatory requirements.
- Support the Research and Development Manager with any other duties were deemed necessary.
Skill, experience and qualification:
- Essential: Chemistry degree, specifically within formulation area
- Essential: Project Management Experience, specifically managing development projects within the FMCG area, from brief to commercialisation, ideally within Healthcare, Biocides, Cosmetics, Detergents and/or I&I
- Nice to have: Experience specifically formulating biocides and cosmetic products.
- Nice to have: An awareness of CLP regulations and biocidal claims substantiation testing standards.
