Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
We are looking to hire a Senior Research Associate - S&T in our Home Care team based in Bangalore:
This role will focus on acquiring and performing the following responsibilities:
- Candidate is expected to work in the laboratory to carry out on the bench experiments.
- Design, develop and validate new microbiological methods for evaluating Biotics based technologies.
- Understanding of regulatory tests (e.g., EN tests) in microbiology relevant to Home & Hygiene and Laundry and understanding of mode of action of actives from Biotics platform.
- Appreciation of molecular biology techniques and Omics (e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics)
- Interpret data and communicate scientific results through technical reports and presentations.
Fields of Responsibility
- Identify and build understanding of the field of Probiotics in Home Care.
Stakeholders
- Within Unilever R&D Bangalore
- Outside Bangalore but within Unilever
- Outside Unilever
- Across H&H team as well as Laundry Global Design teams
- Global Design teams in Mumbai, Casale and Port Sunlight
- 3P labs / external partners
- Interact with the project team to translate the insights to innovations to move the projects forward.
- Interact with 3P labs and external partners to carry out routine microbiological measurements and co-ordinate with them to ensure good data generation.
Desired Profile
- M.Sc. in Microbiology / Biotechnology / Mol Bio / Omics
- 1-2 years research experience in Microbiology related projects gained either through industrial or academic research, preferably in above areas.
- Hands on experience in classical microbiology, biochemistry, method development and molecular biology preferred.
- Experience in data validation and documentation.
- Basic appreciation of statistics and data analysis tools.
- Sound knowledge in basic data processing software.
- Should be a team player and have good communication skills.
- Interested to develop knowledge and understanding of current and emerging analytical techniques.
- Very well organized, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and confident.
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