Design & Development Specialist, HUL Foods

JOB TITLE: Design & Development Specialist, HUL Foods

LOCATION: Bangalore, India

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Business Context and Main Challenges of the Role :

Delivering superior technologies and innovations to solve consumer relevant problems across all life stages is very crucial for Lifestyle nutrition success.  Driven by this strong demand, HUL intent to deliver cutting-edge technologies through fundamental understanding on various aspects of cereal science, dairy science, functional actives, sustainable product development & unmissable brand superiority for Life style nutrition category. Prospective candidates need to work on technology, innovation, process improvement and product development as per the brief agreed with the business involving Product & Process Development, Regulatory compliance and Technology transfer.

Role also involves below responsibilities:

• Deep dive technology expertise in the area of cereal science, dairy science & functional fortification & strong food chemistry background

• Process & technology development: establishing appropriate technology for manufacturing a product to specification at lab-scale and pilot-scale

• Claims & Demo generation & substantiation: help developing competitive claims and demo along with substantiation to defend those claims.

• Experience in developing process/formulation technologies for handling stability challenges & product superiority Understanding consumer, competitor tracking, products/market trend analysis, competition technology mapping, digital savvy, statistical analysis are the basic requirements of this job profile.

• Development of sustainable product/process development

• Key role will be Planning and execution of experiments where one needs to develop experimental plan and prototypes of new products. Critical data analysis, interpretation and drawing inferences for future course of action will be key enabler on this role.
  

KEY SKILLS:

• Strong process/formulation development expertise in food & beverage catagory

• Good understanding of nutritional biochemistry and various biological process involved in metabolism and human health. 

• Strong hands-on experience on key analytical techniques in chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, Enzyme assays, stability science.

• Comprehensive literature review/meta analysis to identify insights & execution into  to Idea exploration

• Managing analytical/technical/supplier partners

• Awareness on relevant latest science developments in the external scientific world and how it can be translated to pragmatic and cutting-edge technologies to deliver un-met need of consumers.

• Pro-active and self-motivated to engage with internal and external science leaders, to learn new skills in relatively shorter time frame.

• Having the right attitude is crucial as it drives accountability, responsibility, and a growth mindset, which are essential for success in any role

• Collaboration and Networking, Project management experience, Creative thinking, Technical reporting skills, Exposure to Ecosystem partnership
  

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• To develop cutting-edge technologies supported by risk-based assessment, consumer benefit to drive product superiority and savings

• Underpinning the science across  processes, product chemistry/ key technologies/innovations via closely working with Global TPLs, ecosystem partners under the guidance of Senior Scientists

• To influence both Global and local R&D teams on implementing technological solutions in LSN portfolio which are sustainably accretive

• End to end technology/formulation developments for LSN category
  

KEY REQUIREMENT:

• M. Sc. / B.Tech Food Tech/Science

• Minimum 4-5 years of experience in Foods/Beverages R&D background preferred.

Any other critical personal characteristics

• 20% travel (Domestic) for trials/visits/etc

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.