Personal Care Regulatory Affairs Assistant

ABOUT UNILEVER

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.  

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are ​inquisitive and a true lover of the personal care industry, ​ then this role is just for you! 

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Provides regulatory expertise and assessments to R&D project leaders and key business partners, across PC India Global Design Centre (GDC) led projects. The successful candidate will have the following key responsibilities aligned to the Personal Care R&D strategic agenda and priorities

• Helps to deliver growth of the PC business through initiative-taking approach that shapes the regulatory space for innovation and ensures ongoing compliance. 

• Key part of the PC India GDC Regulatory Affairs team co-ordinating, collating and summarizing Global regulatory input by networking across the PC Regulatory Affairs team to ensure all regulatory inputs across regions is incorporated for the global product.

• Works closely with PC Regulatory Affairs GDC leads, BU RA Innovation leads, BG Product Safety, Safety Environmental & Regulatory Science (SERS), S&T lead, GDC R&D managers CTI, Packaging, Quality, Legal, Communications and External Affairs team etc. to assure that regulatory documentation, product safety and quality are fit for purpose.

• Provides regulatory input and guidance throughout the innovation process to project initiated from India GDC (R&D) by completing regulatory assessment and formulation review through RA digital tools for all major projects. 

• Provides regulatory input into the claim fora for PC categories and finds creative solutions to innovation claims challenges while remaining within the regulatory boundaries. 

• Review competitor claims for potential challenges and takes learnings to guide Unilever innovations.

• Provides regulatory clearance for clinical, consumer, home-use test (HUT,) and sensory studies. 

• Monitors and collects issues and trends that will impact the PC India GDC portfolio, policies and procedures and recommends strategies and plans of action to address them. 

• Provide Regulatory input for various digital tools development and their roll out to R&D.

• Maintain an up-to-date overview of the India GDC R&D innovation program.  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Minimum BSc in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biological Science, Toxicology, or equivalent.

• 2+ years of experience within an FMCG environment with expertise in regulatory requirements that govern personal care and cosmetics (ideally) and/or Drug industry (secondarily).

• Experience in product development or Regulatory Affairs.

• Ideal candidate will have Cosmetic Regulatory experience, particularly on Oral Care and Skin Cleansing products as well as Deodorants in order to ensure Science & Technology and Design projects land seamlessly in launch focus markets.

• Active collaboration with R&D and non-R&D functions as well as 3rd parties in support of the innovation program. 

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements in India and one of either Europe or ASEAN is mandatory. Experience in dealing with regulatory requirement for China, LATAM, Middle East countries would be an added advantage.

• A good team player with agility to be able to respond quickly to stakeholders’ requests. 

• Excellent technical communication skills demonstrating ability to convey complex regulatory scenarios to stakeholders.  

• Ability to apply argumentation to influence internally. 

• Clear and logical thinker with the ability to recognize patterns and develop innovative solutions. 

Skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite [Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Copilot etc.]

• Digital Tool Proficiency: Quick digital tools adoption and advocate for digitization

• Previous experience with innovation (Innoflex), specification and formulation management systems (PLM)

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way. 

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better. 

Critical Behaviours 

• FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS: We ruthlessly prioritize what really, really matters, allowing us to do better on fewer things. We set clear and stretching goals and recognise maximum performance impact.

• DELIVER WITH EXCELLENCE: We deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we’ve said we will do.

• STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident– anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition.

• CARE DEEPLY: We care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development and our impact on the planet. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

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