R&D Testing & Consumer Insights Specialist

We are looking for a Testing & Consumer Insights Specialist to join our Research and Development team in our Beauty & Personal Care business unit based in Calenzano.

How you make the difference

This position is crucial for Bolton because R&D team has the ownership to boost innovations and to contribute to develop a competitive position in the market.

How your agenda looks like:

• Support marketing and R&D in creating claims and identifying the most suitable performance tests to support them

• Contact external institutes to design and conduct clinical trials, both for performance and safety

• Coordinate the production and shipping of test samples

• Interpret clinical results, identifying the most effective options

• Analyze clinical claims for competing products

• Manage the clinical trial budget.

• Archive clinical protocols in the most accurate and usable manner.

Your team:

You will collaborate with R&D Personal Care team and you will be supported by your Manager, Testing & Consumer Insights Manager.

What makes you a great fit:

• Education: bachelor in Chemistry or similar

• Work Experience: 2/3 years in a similar role

• Soft skills: innovation, proactivity, curiosity, initiative and a propensity for goals achievement; team building; critical interpretation of experimental results; the ability to organize the job activities in a methodical and rigorous way and to interface with other functions within the R&D department and with other teams; the competence to manage storage and timely reporting of experimental data.

• Local language: good knowledge of English proficient in Italian and English.

What’s in for you:

• Starting salary: from 40.000 euro (based on experience and skills)

• Variable compensation: Yes, PPO

• Work location: Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

• Contract type: Temporary contract (Maternity Cover)

• Working hours: Full time

• Smart working: Yes, with a flexible smart working

• Benefit: Works Canteen, Health insurance (Faschim + supplementary coverage); Corporate welfare plan

• Collective Agreement: CCNL Chimico

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About Bolton

Bolton is an Italian family-owned fast-moving consumer goods company with 10.500 people located across 60 offices, 17 production facilities, 10 R&D laboratories, and 14 fishing vessels worldwide. With a diverse portfolio of over 60 quality brands, Bolton has been enriching the lives of millions of people every day for more than 75 years, making their everyday more delicious, more enjoyable, useful, and beautiful.

About Bolton Beauty & Personal Care

Bolton Home & Personal Care is a Business Unit of Bolton with a single mission: help people take care of their homes and bodies. Through well-known brands that are loved by millions, such as Winni's and Chilly, they make everyday lives more enjoyable, cleaner, fresher and more beautiful. The Business Unit is fully committed to sustainable development with a particular focus on circularity and sourcing raw materials.

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