R&D Technologist - Processing Beauty & Wellbeing/美容与健康产品工艺研发专员

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Role: R&D Technologist - Processing Beauty & Wellbeing/美容与健康产品工艺研发专员

Function: Research and Development

Reports to: Process Development Manager

Scope: China BW Business Group

Location: Shanghai, China

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

·  Process Development to enable launch and roll-out of innovations for Beauty and Wellbeing products (hair care and skin care.)
·  Driving benefit-driven processing technology, unlocking opportunities for consumer and planet through supply chain.
·  Process design to enable increased capability, flexibility and efficiency in factory ‘making’ and ‘filling’ areas.
·  Consistent effective approaches to specifications, recommendations, technology transfer, trials, pilot plant design and project execution
·  Programme management in functional excellence in terms of skills, facilities and practices
·  Key interface to R&D functional teams and partners (Supply Chain Technology and factory)

Main Accountabilities

·  Deliver manufacturing process design to support beauty and wellbeing projects on time in full
·  Plan, design and execute pilot plant trials.
·  Use Design of Experiments, statistics and data analysis to create better product understanding and improve scale up between pilot and factory.
·  Competent in application of best practices in technology delivery and transfer (Early Product Management, Process Specifications, Process Validation, Unilever Sustainable Living Plan)
·  Supervision and reporting of factory trials such as Main Plant Trials.
·  Monitor Process Engineering field for improvements in designs, new technologies, training programmes etc.
·  Support Supply Chain strategic work and operations, e.g. driving process optimization for batch cycle time reduction and next generation manufacturing technology
·  Drive process led innovations to unlock new product opportunities
·  Align with R&D digital transformation agenda to build digital processing skills.

Key Interfaces

BU/BG R&D teams (formulation & process)

Supply Chain

Unilever & 3rd party manufacture sites

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