Job title: Assistant Manager Deodorants, R&D; India
Location: Mumbai HURC
General Context:
Deodorants is a huge market in India and HUL has a small business with Rexona, Dove and Axe and the last 3 years performance of the market offers a huge opportunity for growth. In order to bring in the focus and also drive aggressive growth in this space of deodorants and Antiperspirants in India for brands Dove and Rexona, we are looking for an experienced talent who has good technical knowledge to drive innovations at pace with great agility working with cross functional teams to drive the agenda and the category deliverables.
The current job description is for Assistant Manager Deodorants position reporting into a R&D; product development manager, Mumbai. The person would lead technical workstream for projects of Deodorants, Anti-Perspirants for innovation/renovation Program, covering formulation, process development, fragrance development and claim support. The person should also have deeper understanding of deodorants,
personal care or skin care ingredients/technologies/ formulations and fragrance to meet local consumer & business needs. Good knowledge on different formats within Deodorants and specially on aerosols, creams, lotions will be significant. In addition, the role would also involve leading value creation initiatives, managing product quality and specifications, interfacing with global & regional cross-functional teams and working closely with the brand teams.
Key Responsibilities:
The job responsibilities would include:
*Product Development & Execution*
- Drive deployment of global technologies and formulations by working closely with Global Design Centre for different formats within Deodorants ( aesrosol, sticks, creams and lotions).
- Execute projects as Technical workstream leader developing mixes with deeper understanding of consumer habits, need gap and pain points as desired by the project & business.
- Lead lab batches, process and scale-up to main p