Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty and personal care business within Unilever.  We re-found iconic brands by remixing them for today’s generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were first time around. Our remixes democratize beauty, because we want everyone on the ‘beauty dance floor’ with our top-quality products at a great value.

Driven by our colleague’s creativity, agility and close connection with consumers, customers, and suppliers weare able tounleash the true potential of our loved brands with a fresh start.  We‘Re-Found’ them using a start-up mentality that always ‘finds a way’.  Our ‘no silos’, one team approach drives both personal and business growth so that together we deliver outcomes that are music to the ears of consumers, customers, colleagues and the planet alike.

Your Role & Key Responsibilities

Elida Beauty markets a wide portfolio of personal care products across global markets with a turnover of €600M. The consumer safety of our products is our highest priority. Working with our world class third parties you will ensure all products have been evaluated to be safe for consumer use and that robust safety evaluation procedures are in place before our new products enter the market via our very active innovation programme. You will also be responsible to make sure that all of Elida Beauty’s products are regulatory compliant in all markets where directly sold and that robust procedures are in place in other markets to ensure third party distributors are aware of their regulatory responsibilities. Compliance includes Product Information Files being maintained and made accessible for inspection, safety data sheets prepared and translated as needed, and REACH requirements for UK and EU satisfied. Your engagement with our products extends beyond regulatory and safety to cover other business-critical aspects. Reporting into this role is the roles of Specification Developer, Microbiologist and two Regulatory Specialists.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Commission and oversee third party suppliers to ensure that all products have been assessed for consumer safety and regulatory compliance and to take accountability for the quality of the output.

• Member of R&D leadership team to define future R&D capability requirements and external partnerships to meet the needs of the business

• Be involved personally or via team of two regulatory assistants in all stages of innovation projects to guide Marketing and product R&D colleagues on regulatory aspects of innovation projects.

• To be first point of contact for handling technical aspects of any regulatory issues raised by customers, consumers or regulatory authorities (in collaboration with legal team)

• Use links to professional, trade associations, NGOs, third parties and online resources to monitor and anticipate PR issues, consumer concerns and environmental impacts to be able take pre-emptive action to align our portfolio and claims to minimise business risk 

• Develop a deep understanding of the regulatory framework impacting the Elida Beauty product portfolio in the key markets of North America, UK/IRE, EU and ANZ with working knowledge in ROW covered by distributors.

• Approve pack copy and advertising claims from a viewpoint of regulatory compliance

• Track material volumes and compliance to REACH regulations

• Ensure R&D PLM is correctly populated and up to date (via WL1 Specification Specialist)

• Line manage WL1 Microbiologist to ensure agreed programme on microbiological quality of our products is delivered.

• Line manage the WL1 Specification Developer to ensure all R&D master data are available for downstream processes and to derive additional business value from the aggregated data, e.g., compliance checking, cost benchmarking, sustainability metrics.

Talent catalyst:

• Responsible for growing and nurturing talent including succession planning ensuring organization is fit to win short and long term

• Key representative of Elida Beauty Limited within organization as well as externally across various key stakeholders and organizational bodies.

Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline

• Track record of successful delivery in a regulatory role in personal care orFMCG

• Proven people leadership skills with ability to manage specialists outside your own expertise base

• Self-confident integrity in your role of the guardian of the safety and legality of our products and articulate in your ability to express your expertise, enabling you to defend and win your viewpoint even against more senior challenges.

• Regards safety and regulatory frameworks to be areas wherecreative  ideascan be generated rather than be a barrier to innovation. The successful candidate will have high ethics, imaginative, willing to take risks and passionate about delivering new products.

• Comfortable with data handling and analysis and creative in ways of driving value from data created within team

We are looking for someone who can combine regulatory expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset – who sees the opportunities 

You are change maker:

You are constantly looking to improve the world and consumer experiences through better preservation, to create new ways to deliver more value to Elida Beauty’s business growth. 

You are a leader: 

By combining technical knowledge with a passion for creative problem-solving, you never hesitate to act when faced project obstacles.Confident in your expertise, you are prepared to take hard decisions and to defend these

You love to win, and have fun doing it:

An infectious passion for success is a must.  You are detail-orientated with an ability to manage multiple fast-track projects in a collaborative team environment.     

You are astory teller:

You communicate preservation successes by translating into a business impact message.  You adapt to an audience and influence direction across project functions and categories.  

Join us…

To ensure that your personal creativity helps to unlock our potential, we will upskill and reskill you. We will develop leading-edge digital marketing skills and best-in-class teamworking capabilities. 

Most importantly, we will give you the autonomy to use them like a ‘founder’. We will help you to think like a CEO so that we all focus on delivering our Purpose and so you drive growth as you develop. Imagine how good we will feel when we see that our creativity reignites growth in the business because consumers embrace our new ideas.

Better for our consumers, better for the world and better for each of us

The way we manufacture, package and distribute our products will be better for everyone and for the planet. We will bring a new meaning to diversity and inclusion by providing access to beauty products that suit every kind of skin and hair.

Excited about the Role?

Please apply online. Your application will be reviewed against ourrequirementsand we will be in touch to provide you with an update on the status of your application.