PackagingDeveloper

**Job Title:** Packaging Developer **Business Function:** R&D **Location:** Leeds **JOB PURPOSE** The Deodorants category is a key part of the Unilever Personal Care Business Group. With a family of Power Brands – Rexona, Dove, Axe – which are critical growth drivers of the company. As a Packaging Developer within the Deodorant Category Technology Centre, you will play a hands-on role in delivering innovative, high quality packaging for iconic Power brands. You will support major innovation and renovation programmes while independently leading smaller projects end to end — from concept and design through to industrialisation and launch. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering, creativity, and consumer experience, working with multi-functional teams (marketing, supply chain, procurement) to deliver consumer desirable packaging innovation. **RESPONSIBILITIES** • Deliver packaging solutions from brief to launch, ensuring technical excellence, manufacturability, and consumer appeal • Lead or support packaging workstreams on global innovation and renovation projects • Define and validate functional specifications, test plans, and performance requirements • Manage technical risk using tools such as FMEA and risk assessments • Analyse test and trial data to inform decisions and de risk scale up • Coordinate lab testing, pilot trials, and factory line trials • Work closely with global suppliers, design agencies, and manufacturing partners • Ensure alignment with global standards, regional legislation, and sustainability goals • Champion digital tools, data capture, and an in silico first mindset • Contribute to capability building, best practices, and knowledge sharing across Personal Care **ALL ABOUT YOU** • A technical background in engineering, science, design, materials or equivalent experience. • Experience in packaging development, working with packaging materials and technologies (e.g. metals, plastics, aerosols, complex assemblies).