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　　We are looking to hire LAKME Colour Cosmetics Program Leader, India in our Beauty & Wellbeing team based in Mumbai.

　　 Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job:

　　Lakme is part of Hindustan Unilever India B&W business and is growing continuously over the past years and is market leader in this business of color cosmetics. The color cosmetics business is growing over 15% CAGR and the lead and part of the growing market the India business. To support our ambitious growth agenda, the Skin Care category is looking for an experienced R&D Leader who can lead and inspire the product development team.

　　 Who You Are & What You'll Do:

　　The Lakme Product development team is looking for exceptional TPL to join our innovation team to contribute to the continuing success of our Lakme color cosmetics brand. This is an exciting chance for a job designed to offer individuals the opportunity to work with product development in a more holistic end-to-end approach. In this role you will have the opportunity to:

　　• Carry out a holistic end-to-end product design role, working in all aspects of product development, from formulation design to scale up for manufacturing: Build-Scaleup-Own

　　• Work with the Brand and Category design teams to develop and land innovations and new technologies and formats to India and emerging market opportunities.

　　• Design and implement new projects for quick innovations, including work with global 3rd party (OEM/ODM) across Europe, Asia and India.

　　• Lead projects as a Design Project Leader, extending the end-to-end experience to incorporate the development and delivery of the product story and claims.

　　• Deliver 5S and resilience programs as per plan

　　• Design "Trend Innovations" to befit the bi-annual Lakme Fashion Week

　　• You will work within a dedicated and highly ambitious team on the development of high impact brand innovation.

　　• We offer an agile and open-minded environment with strong, proactive, passionate thinkers who are constantly seeking to improve purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth.

　　• Our technologies and products designed in India are benchmarked to International brands and compete them in market place.

　　As a member of the project team, you will have the chance to collaborate with and guide multi-disciplinary teams and external partners to create products consumers want and love

　　 Main Accountabilities:

　　• Formulation development and recommendation for a wide range of products and formats. Development involves formulation proposal, design and evaluate experiments for validation and report as well as scale up and adapt bench-scale processes to pilot and manufacturing scale.

　　• Understand risks and manage & mitigate those as appropriate.

　　• Work closely with other functions, such as marketing and supply chain, to create, develop and deliver new products and innovations.

　　• Work and communicate effectively with different departments and functions to deliver against the project network timings and identify and manage risks.

　　• Write formulation and process specifications and implement processes at Unilever and third party manufacturing facilities. Design and execute trial proposals for manufacturing trials.

　　• Provide leadership for technical aspects of project development (TPL), including project management activities, holding others accountable, ensure project delivery on agreed technical targets and support decision making process for product development related matters.

　　• Work closely with other functions (marketing, CCBTs, R&D Brand Design teams) to develop the product stories and claim support, ensuring strong consumer relevance and engagement.

　　 KEY REQUIREMENTS:

　　• At least 9 to 10 years relevant experience in formulation and or processing development.

　　• Skilled and comfortable working in a digital environment.

　　• A creative, logical and analytical mind to generate innovative design solutions to technical design problems.

　　• Ability to respond quickly to change in priorities.

　　• Have proven record to work with extended teams in complex projects and delivered them successfully.

　　• Enthusiastic and self-motivated with good verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex engineering and design principles to people at all levels of the business, across different functions