Fragrance Development at Unilever

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the Fragrance Team at Unilever. Unilever are investing in enhanced fragrance capabilities and a new state of the art fragrance facility in Port Sunlight, UK, the home of our Home Care Innovation Team. Read more about our investment in Fragrance: £80m investment in UK fragrance facility and capabilities | Unilever

Job Purpose:

You will grow Home Care’s Perfumery Innovation expertise to become a major strategic advantage for Unilever. The fragrances you touch will drive the desire of Unilever Brands worldwide. You will become a recognised leader in driving perfumery-led innovation across our HC brands.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Unilever HC Fragrance Design Team, you will partner with the Home Care Innovation Team, and Science & Technology Team to deliver the next generation of HC products – enabling extraordinary fragrance experiences for our consumers.

You will work with Unilever and external Fragrance House partners to optimize the superiority, performance, and cost of Unilever’s existing and future fragrance portfolios.

All about you:

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

• 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.
• A proven track record of delivery as a Perfumer (Creative and/or Technical) in consumer goods. You will have hands-on experience of setting fragrance design rules and/or optimizing fragrances that drive success in the market.
• Experience working with analytical / measurement experts to develop predictive models for successful fragrance design.
• Knowledge of the compliance and sustainability 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 design and optimise fragrance.

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 Home Care brands.
• Exciting career opportunities in a global business.
• Flexible working policies to help make this role the right one for you.

What we offer

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 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 (unilever.com).