Senior Perfumer

Job Title: Senior Perfumer

Location: Port Sunlight R&D

Want to change the world?

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Omo, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. We want to move towards a connected world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is “to make sustainable living commonplace”.

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 world-leading products. Superior fragrances play a critical role in the delivery of unmissable superiority for Unilever. To support this, we have embarked on a fragrance transformation journey with expert fragrance teams, designing and formulating affordable winning fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups.

JOB PURPOSE

You will work with the world’s best perfumery talent to grow Unilever’s Perfumery expertise.  The fragrances you touch will drive the performance of Unilever Brands worldwide. As part of this role, you will become a recognised leader in bringing the science of sustainability to the art of perfumery.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As we continue to expand our perfumery team we are looking for a Senior Perfumer, who will lead on:

• Partnering with Unilever Global Platform teams to lead the next generation of Home, Beauty and Personal Care products - enabling fragrance to deliver superior performance, cost and sustainability.
• Develop Creative Perfume capability – starting with Core strategic brands and variants.
• Working with Unilever experts and external Fragrance Houses to optimize the performance, cost, sustainability, and compliance of Unilever’s existing fragrance portfolio.
• Work with Unilever’s upstream Science & Technology teams to enable the delivery of their Biotech and Bio-sourcing strategies.
• Establish an operational fragrance compounding lab at our facilities at Port Sunlight (UK).
• Driving change within the company and our partnership with fragrance experts, procurement and product scientists, in order to maximise the speed at which renewable and biodegradable ingredients are integrated into category portfolios.

ALL ABOUT YOU

We are looking for people with the right attitude, mindset and competencies, coupled with:

• Educational background in a relevant Science and/or Engineering to at least BSc level.
• Qualified as a perfumer through a recognised perfumery school or on-the job training.
• Significant experience in functional product perfumery in a variety of chassis.
• Experience of creating functional fragrance cross multiple markets and multiple categories
• A proven track record of delivery as a Perfumer in consumer goods delivering technical performance.  You will have hands on experience of creating and optimizing fragrances that turn out to be successful in the market.
• Experience working with analytical/ measurement experts to optimize fragrance oils for cost and performance.
• Knowledge of the sustainability and compliance challenges of fragrance raw materials. 
• A track record of being able to problem solve issues and develop solutions.
• The ability to lead self and teams to achieve breakthrough results.
• Ability to work with other perfumers (both internal and external to create and develop new fragrance)
• Ability to work with CTI and Procurement to develop cost and test methodologies that lead to winning fragrances.

What we can offer you:

The opportunity to work on brands with the power to brighten peoples’ lives all over the world.

To be part of a diverse and ambitious team shaping the future of Beauty and Personal Care brands

Exciting career opportunities in a global, purpose-led business with purpose-led brands

Flexible working policies to help make this role the right one for you.

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

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 are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. 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 at Unilever | Unilever.

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