Product Performance and Data Scientist

Manpower are currently seeking an interim Product Performance and Data Scientist to work with our global FMCG client Unilever. The role is based at the client’s scientific Research & Development facility in Port Sunlight Village, Wirral. This is a full-time temporary role to run for 12 months, requiring 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Compensation for this role is up to £31,205 per annum, pro rata, depending upon experience.

Unilever is a major worldwide player in the hair care industry with leading brands such as Tresemme, Sunsilk, Dove and Nexxus. The successful candidate will join the Consumer and Technology Insights team and be responsible for generating new insights and data from the Hair Category’s instrumental and consumer evaluation capabilities. The role may involve creating new empirical data through measurement techniques to support generated insights and improving data analysis and visualization, as well as optimizing instrumentation, methods and data handling processes to better link objective measures of performance with consumer perception. You will work with multi-disciplinary project teams across the Unilever Global and Regional Hair Businesses to identify instrumentation and evaluation needs and help direct the Hair Category measurement capability programme.

This position offers an opportunity for someone with a passion for technical insight building and data handling within a dynamic measurement community at Unilever.

• Lead aspects of the Hair Category’s technical performance evaluation capability workstream, driving continuous improvement in measurement capability efficiency and effectiveness.
• Define and implement data analysis and generic support plans for new and current active materials and products to demonstrate functional performance and generate claims substantiation data through modelling and experimentation.
• Provide technical insights through the review and analysis of data from multiple sources, combining knowledge streams and/or developing performance and insight models.
• Provide support to the innovation and capability workstreams within CTI measurements and assist in advancing measurement capabilities.

• Within a data-driven scientific role, significant experience in data management, analysis, visualization and communication of insights.
• Experience in leading projects and designing new, more efficient methods of data analysis to extract actionable insights.
• Ability to set project plans and manage stakeholders and establish relationships within or external to the immediate team.

• BSc or MSc (or equivalent) in Data Science, Physical Sciences (including Physics, Materials Science, Polymer Science, Chemistry or Metrology) or related field.
• Strong background in Data analytics, Chemistry, Physics, Metrology or closely related subject.
• Proven experience in industrial or academic data or measurement sciences.
• Experience in FMCG environment is ideal; healthcare, pharma, foods or other relevant fields will be considered.
• Experience in software development / data packages is beneficial.
• Experience in stakeholder management and working across multiple interfaces.
• Ability to interpret complex data from multiple sources and generate concise insights for diverse audiences.
• Strong data handling, analysis and interpretation skills; experience with MS Excel or similar tools and statistical analysis and model building using JMP/SAS or similar is beneficial.

• Free onsite parking
• Staff shop discounted products
• Working in state-of-the-art laboratory and pilot plant facilities
• 5 mins walk to train station serving Liverpool & Chester
• 20-minute drive from Liverpool city centre / 30-minute drive from Chester
• Disabled parking
• In the heart of picturesque Port Sunlight village
• Catering outlets and vending machines available on-site