Perfumery Assistant

**Job Title: Perfumery Assistant**

**Location: Port Sunlight**

**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**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Maintain a safe and professional laboratory environment at our new Perfumery facilities at Port Sunlight (UK).
- Maintain raw materials inventory and compounds retention libraries.
- Quality Control of Perfume Raw materials
- Care for equipment and arrange for repair/replacement if necessary.
- Compound accurately a broad range of perfumes including liquid mixtures from formulations provided by the technical perfumer.
- Conduct physical, chemical perfume testing with scientific rigour and reporting to ensure robustness and impact of our experimentation and learning.
- Follow, new laboratory procedures in relation to perfume raw materials / compounds and/or equipment.
- Perform other Fragrance Lab & Technology duties as per the needs of the business.
- Maintain accurate Records and timely reporting
- Safe Disposal of raw materials, finished fragrances and fragrance accords

**All about you**:
We are looking for a person with the right attitude, competencies, and growth mindset to join our growing Technical Perfumery team. A keen interest in the science of perfumes is key.
- You will be a quick learner who is not afraid to take the initiative to get things done.
- You will have a good sense of smell.
- You will have experience of working with perfume compounds and ideally with perfume raw materials.
- You will have a degree in a physical science, analytical chemistry or equivalent.
- You will be experienced in working in a laboratory environment with a keen eye for safe and effective procedures.
- Ideally you will have previous experience working within an FMCG environment or in the Flavours & Fragrances industry.
- Familiarisation with Unilever systems and processes will be an advantage.
- You will have good computer skills (MS Office, ERP) and an openness to embrace new systems.

**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 our Unilever 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.

**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 want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

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**Relocation to the UK