Jobs at Unilever Guppe in United Kingdom

Job Title: Global Fragrance Head of Safety & Regulatory Sciences

Location: Flexible in UK

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. Faced with the daunting issues of climate change and the need for human development, 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 to deliver world-class fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups. This transformation will consist of expert fragrance teams with the skills to design and formulate winning fragrances.

JOB PURPOSE

To deliver this ambition a new Safety & Regulatory Science team has been created and as the Head of Fragrance Safety & Regulatory Sciences you will take overall leadership for the team, as well as the development and implementation of the Safety & Regulatory strategy for Unilever fragrances and their ingredients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Represent the Safety & Regulatory Science capability in Unilever Fragrance leadership teams enabling the development and delivery of the Unilever fragrance strategy.
• Lead the Unilever Fragrance Safety & Regulatory Sciences Team - currently 3 direct reports (Fragrance Safety Science Lead, Fragrance Regulatory Science Lead, Fragrance Issue Manager) and a further 3 skip level reports.
• Lead development and implementation of the fragrance safety & regulatory strategy including a ‘future-fit’ data management and documentation system for fragrance regulatory compliance.
• Ensure ongoing development and delivery of the team’s programme to meet current and future business needs; ensure safety and regulatory sciences are a strong and effective enabler of superior, safe, compliant and trusted Unilever fragrances.
• Lead collaborations with fragrance suppliers, trade associations and other external organisations to advance fragrance safety and regulatory sciences and ensure freedom to innovate for Unilever fragrances.
• Ensure compliance of Unilever fragrances with Unilever and industry standards and relevant regulations.
• Ensure the active monitoring and management of emerging issues and trends related to relevant safety & regulatory science and external opinions on fragrances or their ingredients.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experience Needed:

We are looking for a proven collaborative leader who will have a growth mindset and will embrace the opportunity to build a new team within an integrated and cross-functional Unilever fragrance capability.

You must have extensive safety and/or regulatory science leadership experience in the fragrance and/or FMCG industries, preferably globally.

• Minimum BSc, preferably an MS or PhD in Regulatory Science, Biological Science, Toxicology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or equivalent.
• Experience of developing safety and regulatory science strategies and teams.
• Experience of strong collaboration internally within the companies you have worked in as well as externally with Trade Associations or Regulatory Authorities.
• Strong evidence of strategic thinking in anticipating and managing future opportunities or threats.
• Excellent communication skills; especially communicating technical topics to non-expert audiences and engaging internal & external stakeholders.
• Proven experience in taking the initiative, being proactive to get things done and leading teams with these behaviours.
• Ability to work in an international team.