Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job:
The Analytical Lab in Unilever R&D Shanghai is essential in all phases of product development and production, supporting across categories and business groups/unites. Without high quality analytical support, it is nearly impossible to perform the required detailed characterization of raw materials, to establish insights into the mode of action (MOA) of key actives in products, to perform evaluation of prototypes, control the quality of products, build evidence for claim substantiation, support patents and detect patent infringement, and eventually develop new and improved products.
The role requires wide analytical core capabilities including sampling, sample treatment, instrumental analysis, data processing and interpretation. Next to this, he or she will require basic category knowledge in FMCG and application understanding to be able to generate correct data and interpret these in a way where they help in building insights and capabilities. The candidate needs to work with multiple interfaces. Hence, it is ideally suited to an energetic, self-motivated person with good communication skills.
Main Accoutailities:
Work in R&D function for the product development in areas of Analytical Chemistry, performing as an active analytical specialist with following responsibilities:
1. Act as analytical coordinator to leverage internal and external resource for the requests of routine analysis.
2. Develop purpose-fit methods to meet the business needs.
3. Source, qualify, and manage the use of external analytical labs for routine service.
4. Ensure delivery of work of high quality and accuracy, and effective reporting and interpretation of analytical data.
5. Achieve 100% data capturing by LIMS.
6. Follow good laboratory practices and SHE requirements.
Crititcal Success Factors for the job:
- PhD or Master in Analytical Chemistry or related areas. Strong hand-on experience in analytical skills, like chromatography, mass spectroscopy, IR, NMR, SEM, etc. Experienced in multiple analytical skills will be a plus.
- Good business acumen – be able to delivery analytical support to business requests OTIF. Experienced in analytical support to HBPC and Foods will be a plus.
- Be pro-active and self-motivated to engage with project leaders and team members.
- Have team spirit, strong responsibility & accountability, and clear logistic thinking.
- Proficient in both written and spoken English.
- Work on their own initiative and a desire to continually develop their scientific skills.
