Product Developer in Darmstadt bei Wella Company

For our Darmstadt Professional Beauty Research & Development team, we are looking for a Product Developer (m/f/d) – Prestige Care to join us as soon as possible.

ABOUT WELLA

Wella Company is one of The World’s leading Beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders. . For more information about the Wella Company, visit our website www.wellacompany.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

ABOUT R&D

Research & Development in Wella is a highly collaborative, competent and innovative group. You join diverse teams of highly passionate Scientists, Engineers and Hair & Nail Artists who innovate at the frorefront of technology and beauty trends. We:

• Deliver end-to-end innovation through an empowered learning culture, exploring, developing and qualifying innovations that delight consumers.
• Innovate and bring to life the future of the Company, guided by focused consumer research and the trends that will grow our industry long term.
• Drive safety, sustainability, quality and regulatory always front and center to our work.

We want you to join the Wella R&D family on an exciting journey through exciting challenges and opportunities as we become an independent, winning Wella again!

THE ROLE

The role would have a focus on co-develop and support on new superior products from inception to launch, and also being in the scalp care space, a big trend in hair care growing globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

We offer you an exciting technology development role for Wella Professional Care & Styling. Your work will include:

• Support on new beauty product development and see them come to life at shelf!
• Support development of scientific communication.
• Qualify new product performance and define robust claims substantiation strategy.
• Organise product tests, deliver claim support with in vitro and in vivo methods.
• Create demos to illustrate product differences, building the reason to believe in the product efficacy.
• Support registration, notifications, freedom to practice and other relevant clearances to allow product launch, and current market products.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree from university in, biology/biotech, chemistry, cosmetic or natural sciences, etc. or relevant and equivalent work experience
• A background in the skin/scalp territory or the regulated cosmetic environment is a plus.
• Team player and “can do” attitude.
• Curiosity and empathy to transfer consumer and stylist insights into new product ideas.
• Desire to penetrate science deeply and support claims with robust science approaches.
• A bias towards Beauty and in touch with trends in the beauty industry.
• Communication and presentation skills for verbal and written communication (in English) of ideas, technical rationales, risks, issues and recommendation.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AT WELLA

• Attractive salary package.
• Wide range of benefits (e.g. pension plan as well as other benefits).
• Free company parking as well as central location and good public transport connections.
• Promotion of personal potential and individual career paths.
• Support during the induction period and the opportunity to take on responsibility at an early stage.
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home.
• A collegial working atmosphere at an employer with an appreciative corporate culture.
• Open communication and an international as well as diverse environment in which the "WE" is in the foreground!

Become a part of the "WELLA- family" and participate in the rebuilding of our independence. We live our values!

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any ot