Cowick Hall, Snaith,Goole, East Yorkshire, DN14 9AA
Closing Date:10/20/2024
Be part of our journey
As a global leader in speciality chemicals, we continue to succeed and strengthen our delivery of innovative, sustainable and high-performance solutions. We are passionate and excited about how we can develop and utilise new technologies to shape and inspire changes within an ever-growing market place.
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Lead Applications Scientist to join the Personal Care team within the Consumer Care department at our Global Headquarters, Cowick Hall.
The role will involve the investigation and formulation of Crodas products for key uses within the Personal Care market, across a range of applications from hair care to skin care and colour cosmetics. A key part of the role will also be to develop our internal knowledge on the fundamental properties of our existing products and how they deliver performance and applications benefits to Personal Care formulations. There will be opportunities to carry out creative formulation development, requiring an innovative mindset and problem-solving skills. You will be required to plan your own work, maintaining high standards of good laboratory practice and critically evaluate products and formulations.
The role holder will spend a proportion of their time providing technical support across the EMEA region and so they must be a confident communicator and prepared to travel.
Benefits Package:
The successful candidate will receive a competitive benefits package including:
- Defined benefit pension scheme with death in service benefit
- 25 days paid holiday allowance (plus bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Free lunch in on-site restaurant
- Access to share plans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car leasing scheme
- Retail platform benefits
- Free car parking on Croda sites
Our ideal person
As a business, its really important to us that we find the best person for the job and that you have the best opportunity to succeed in the role. To help, we have outlined our expectations for the role and what core skills and experiences we require as well as what would make you an ideal fit. In turn, we hope this helps you evaluate if this is the right job for you.
Essentials:
- A degree in Chemistry, Biology or related science subject and demonstrable experience of using technical knowledge and understanding to solve complex scientific problems
- You should have good laboratory skills and be able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written reports
- You should have strong interpersonal skills to enable you to build good working relationships both internally and externally to the business
- You will be an excellent team player but also work well independently
- You will be a positive, self-motivated individual with the ability to manage and plan your own workload
- Able to be flexible and adaptable to shifting priorities depending on business needs
Desirables:
Previous experience as a formulator within the personal care industry
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