Research and Development Officer (Junior) at Givanas Group of Companies

Key Responsibilities

• Help design and analyze consumer research tactively translate consumer insights into innovative approaches from a formulation and/or communication standpoint.
• Represent the project at cross-functional team meetings, providing updates on R&D progress and insights and be involved in project team decisions.
• Create and maintain all the necessary documentation to develop and commercialize the products (survey records, Statistical Process control)
• Works with quality control to help conduct evaluations and tests to support the development of new products and/or packaging/ingredient. Ensure complete documentation of all activities, tests, evaluations conducted.
• Coordinates with Marketing and Sales in the creation of strong, substantiated claims and other customer communication
• Conduct performance and analysis evaluations of competitive products
• Act as experimenter in sensory evaluation and determine result using statistical computations
• Participate in the conduct of problem solving analysis and design of experiments during product development

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Analytical Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy or equivalent.
• At least 2 years’ experience as research and development officer in cosmetic industry
• Technical knowledge of the products
• Knowledge of market research and surveys
• Good command on Microsoft excel
• Ability texpress ideas clearly both in oral and written communications