Senior Development Chemist

3 weeks ago


Bradford UK, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Woodstock Recruitment Ltd Full time

A leading manufacturer of cosmetic and personal care products are currently looking to recruit a development chemist or senior chemist to their team based in West Yorkshire.

Bringing previous formulation experience from the industry, with a preference for hair care experience, the successful candidate will join a well established and respected company.


Key responsibilities:

  • Development of new formulations and execution of lab work
  • Technical expertise, responsibility and point of contact for all developments and post production ageing stability and changes to existing products
  • Design of formulations according to the technical briefings from the Business Units
  • Preparation of customer samples
  • Supporting Head of Quality and Realisation in managing the workload
  • Stakeholder management with relevant functions and departments
  • Support for Scale-up and first production (Implementation)
  • Solution-orientated support for QM, scale-up and production in quality cases
  • Creating technical presentations to support sales. Supporting Sales in recipe, technology and trend issues
  • Assuming responsibility for the semifinished product throughout the entire product development process up to initial production
  • Carrying out risk assessments for formulations (legal aspects, stability, expected results in consumer tests etc...) and representing decisions made independently on this basis


Skills, experience and qualifications:

  • BSc (or equivalent) in Chemistry, Cosmetic Science or related subject
  • Previous cosmetic/personal care formulation experience
  • Ideally some experience within hair care formulations
  • Ability to work safely unsupervised and ensure role priorities are met
  • Good organisational skills
  • Good interpersonal skills



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