Junior Development Chemist

A well established and expanding manufacturer, providing personal care and healthcare solutions to a diverse range of industries is currently looking to hire a formulation / development chemist to their team.

Bringing prior post-graduate formulation skills from the personal care, homecare or biocide manufacturing industries, the successful applicant will join an expanding and stable R&D team.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage new product developments, not limited to new formulation work, from brief through to commercialisation. Ensuring project minutes are accurately documented and updated throughout


• Present projects to key stakeholders such as Commercial and Marketing teams where relevant.


• Present regularly throughout key stages of projects.


• Develop timelines capturing key milestones and launch dates


• Review briefs and create development plans, capturing how project requirements are going to be met, including claim substantiation, shelf-life determination, production trials and costings.


• Work closely with the Regulatory team ensuring project plans and formulation work have considered essential requirements that may be required to ensure the product is compliant.


• Be an active member in the laboratory ensuring any development tests such as stability samples and samples required for external testing are created accurately and promptly.


• Be an active member supporting the Commercial team with technical queries and samples.


• Be present where necessary for production trials which relate to development projects.


• Ensure all chemical ingredients have been reviewed and meet all necessary safety and regulatory requirements.


• Support the Research and Development Manager with any other duties were deemed necessary.

Skill, experience and qualification:

• Essential: Chemistry degree, specifically within formulation area


• Essential: Project Management Experience, specifically managing development projects within the FMCG area, from brief to commercialisation, ideally within Healthcare, Biocides, Cosmetics, Detergents and/or I&I


• Nice to have: Experience specifically formulating biocides and cosmetic products.


• Nice to have: An awareness of CLP regulations and biocidal claims substantiation testing standards.