R&D Project Leader

Responsibilities:

Technical support expertise:

• Research and selection of raw materials: sourcing, quotations, and evaluation in collaboration with regulatory, sustainable development, for our Functional ingredients pipeline
• Bring technical support and collaborate closely with Functional ingredients and Co-creation teams through ingredients & polymers characterizations and valorization
• Implement and develop new characterization and methods into the laboratory
• Scout for new and innovative characterization tools or methods for specific projects through congresses, trade shows, literature watch

Project management:

• Implement collaborative partnership with external partners
• Design experiments and studies, both internally or with partners and follow up on results and/or stability data
• Actively participate in new devices and instruments acquisitions in the laboratory
• Build technical documentation through reports and presentations
• Build partnership and collaboration on emerging new technologies or innovative methods.
• Develop better internal tools to characterize our functional ingredients
• Handling short-term deadlines to meet customer needs while working on mid/long term for new pipeline ingredients developments.

Requirements:

• 3+ years cosmetic formulation
• 3+ years physicochemical characterization
• 2+ years of project management
• Inclination for lab trials & method development
• Affinity for cross-team collaborations
• Fluent in French & English (written and spoken)
• PhD. Specialized in chemical, physico-chemical and formulation with specific skills in polymer characterization

Your Contact:

Clariant is a Swiss-based global specialty chemicals company, which is concentrated and developed in three business units: Care Chemicals, Catalysts and Adsorbents & Additives. Our purpose as a company is reflected in our tagline "Greater chemistry - between people and planet", which considers the principles of customer, innovation and people orientation, as well as a focus on creating solutions to foster sustainability in different industries by offering high-value and high-performance chemical specialties.

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