Fragrance Lab Technician

Job Title: Fragrance Lab Technician
Location: Mumbai
Work Level: WL1C

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 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:
This role sits within a team that will work across all Unilever Business Groups globally, working alongside the fragrance R&D teams.
The role will be to provide technical and laboratory support to the Fragrance Global Team on coordination and sample preparation to ensure access to fragranced samples to the R&D fragrance team and the wider team when required. You will also be involved in a variety of activities to ensure preparation of the evaluation for Perfumers and Fragrance Development Lead.
We are looking for a team player, who works proactively and independently in a multi-functional, multi-cultural environment.

Main Accountabilities:

• Coordinate and prepare product samples for fragrance team requirements.
• Coordinate on-site delivery of fragrance, samples, consumables from multi-regional teams in different Business groups and ensure all materials are registered on the required inventory management system according to site standards.
• Accurately post-dosing materials to a defined recipe into a product base (up to 10kg). This could include any of our Business Groups product formats.
• Fill products in required packaging
• Accurately record all laboratory work including labelling.
• Ensure safety and compliance of our samples (Safety Assessment, Micro-clearance).
• Coordinate with logistics and regional teams for sample delivery into different countries.
• Coordinate the preparation of evaluation for Perfumers and Fragrance Design Leads including ensuring all materials on site and prepared for evaluation, evaluation space booked and all safety and housekeeping standards adhered to.

Other responsibilities:

• Ensure all safety and process are up to date and carefully followed (Risk Assessment, Health Safety, Laboratory Management, Standard Procedures).
• Update project team on challenges and timing changes.
• Update, maintain and verify samples, oils, substrate, and consumables inventories, ensure all equipment is kept clean and calibrated as required.
• Work closely with laboratory team to ensure good management of laboratory.

All About You:
We are looking for people with the right mindset, experience, and competencies:
Key Skills:

• Curiosity in fragrance and consumer testing is essential.
• Background in chemistry and formulation knowledge would be useful.
• Proven ability to plan and organise own work within a technical area.
• Strong teamwork skills. Ability to maintain a network of colleagues across geographies.
• Practical laboratory experience making and filling samples. Awareness of safety within the laboratory including working to standard operating procedures, risk assessment and CoSHH is essential.
• Interest in products, consumer understanding and fragrances
• Highly motivated with resourceful problem-solving skills/practical creativity.
• Ability to communicate around deadlines, network, and challenges.
• Good organisation and time management with the ability to prioritise within own work programme.
• Digitally enabled.
• Ability to stay calm under changing priorities