Scientist - Product Development, R&D

Henkel • Trumbull, CT

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow. This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world. Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or an equivalent Science or Engineering related field.
• 0-5 years of relevant laboratory and industry experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to utilize good judgement to make timely, practical, and technically sound decisions.

Responsibilities

• Actively seeks to understand and utilizes the understanding of chemical structure/function relationships pertaining to material performance delivered from a formulation matrix.
• Developing “demos” to support commercial executions.
• Works closely with R&D’s cross-functional teams (i.e packaging, process development, product testing, and manufacturing) during the development and commercialization of products.
• Obtains data to evaluate the composition and performance of competitive offerings.
• Ensures accurate data is generated during laboratory testing and is reported according to standard operating procedures or customer requirements.
• Prepares and delivers presentations, both written and oral, to various levels of management.
• Responsible for completing raw material and formula submissions as part of the master data process.
• Conducts laboratory work and equipment maintenance in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Ensures laboratory is kept in a clean, orderly, and safe manner and reports any deficiencies to laboratory supervisor.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time
• flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role)
• vacation buy / sell program
• 401k matching
• employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• annual performance bonus
• service awards
• student loan reimbursement
• 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth)
• fertility support
• adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
• discounted child and elderly care
• scholarships
• diverse national and international growth opportunities
• access to thousands of skills development courses
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level