Products Preservation and Applied Microbiologist

2 weeks ago

Port Sunlight, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

Microbiologist - Elida Beauty

Work Location - Liverpool
- Job Type - Full Time
- WL - 1 Band 4/5
- Role Ref

Who we arewe are Elida Beauty
- Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty and personal care business within Unilever. We re-found iconic brands by remixing them for today’s generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were first time around. Our remixes democratize beauty, because we want everyone on the ‘beauty dance floor’ with our top-quality products at a great value.
- Driven by our colleague’s creativity, agility and close connection with consumers, customers, and suppliers we are able to unleash the true potential of our loved brands with a fresh start. We ‘Re-Found’ them using a start-up mentality that always ‘finds a way’. Our ‘no silos’, one team approach drives both personal and business growth so that together we deliver outcomes that are music to the ears of consumers, customers, colleagues and the planet alike.

Your Role & Key Responsibilities
- Elida Beauty markets a wide and global portfolio of personal care products. The quality and safety of our products are our highest priorities. We are looking for an experienced microbiologist to ensure that microbiological safety is built into the design of our products through the use of the optimum choice of chemical, processing and packaging preservation approaches. Reporting into the Regulatory Manager, the work involves close collaboration with our third-party manufacturers and testing laboratories, together with colleagues in formulation, packaging and quality. The successful applicant will be constantly seeking new and better preservation solutions and will keep abreast of technology advances in microbiology and preservation science. You will have a pivotal role in investigating and rectifying any contamination issues, and implementing the lessons learnt. By maintaining a watching brief on preservative PR and regulatory issues, you will be able to anticipate their impact and ensure the product portfolio is well positioned to avoid any adverse consequences.
- Your Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all products in the portfolio are microbiologically safe by design, with special emphasis to ensure new products arising from innovation programmes have successfully passed challenge testing when appropriate.-
- Primary liaison with outsourced microbiological testing laboratories (challenge testing and contamination investigation)-
- Assigning hygiene risk assessments to all products with clear instructions on how the scores should be interpreted in terms of manufacturing, quarantine and micro-testing.-
- Support quality colleagues to prepare the hygiene aspects good manufacturing practice for all product platforms and to keep this updated.-
- Run the period after opening programme for UK and continental EU products using third party laboratories.Maintain a window on the world of preservation through contacts with academia and suppliers to identify better and/or more cost effective approaches, especially non chemical processing or packaging solutions- Talent catalyst:
- Responsible for growing and nurturing talent including succession planning ensuring organization is fit to win short and long term-
- Key representative of Elida Beauty Limited within organization as well as externally across various key stakeholders and organizational bodies.- Requirements:
- Demonstrated through proven experience an understanding and good knowledge of the preservation of personal care products and manufacturing hygiene.-
- Experience and knowledge of preservation science and microbiological challenge testing, including rapid methods, and identification techniques for contaminating microorganisms.-
- A creative, logical and analytical mind to generate innovative solutions to technical design problems.You will need to be enthusiastic and self-motivated with good verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate design and engineering principles to people at all levels of the business, across different functions.-
- Experience of working in partnership with x-functional partners beneficial, especially Supply Chain and qualityWe are looking for someone who can combine the technical knowledge of a microbiologist, with an entrepreneurial mindset - to constantly keep one-step ahead with competitive and game-changing innovations in preservation.
- You are change maker:

- You are constantly looking to improve the world and consumer experiences through safe and ethical products, to create new ways to deliver more value to Elida Beauty’s business growth.
- You are a leader:

- By combining technical knowledge with a passion for creative problem-solving, you never hesitate to act when faced with project obstacles. Confident in your expertise, you are prepared to take hard decisions and to defend them.
- You love to win, and have fun doing it:

- An infectious passion for success is a must. You are detail-orientated with an

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