Researcher, Development Color

vor 1 Woche


Darmstadt, Deutschland Kao Vollzeit

Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people's lives with our high quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all - a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment.

As a company driven by purpose and strong corporate values we pride ourselves to be listed among the World's Most Ethical Companies since 16 consecutive years. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do - acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation and treating each other with trust and respect.

**Who we are**:Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people’s lives with our high quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all - a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. As a company driven by purpose and strong corporate values we pride ourselves to be listed among the World´s Most Ethical Companies since 16 consecutive years. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do - acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation and treating each other with trust and respect.

**The Role**:
Ideation, development and validation of innovative hair coloring products. Examination of fundamental properties of formulations and their effect on hair fibres.

**What you will do**:

- Plan and conduct laboratory experiments to develop new formulations (e.g. crème, liquids, powders), understand the influence of single ingredients on the product characteristics, bring in own ideas and knowledge.
- Stability testing of prototype formulations.
- Testing formulation on their performance and compare to competitor products
- Team work such as sharing your results within the product development group, but also work with partners from other teams to transfer prototypes into final products, e.g., test salon, production, scale up, Marketing, Education,
- Administrative work: Create and maintain all necessary documentation in order to develop new technologies/products (i.e., lab notebooks, recipes of prototype formulation, stability test results, /data, etc), support registration of final products

**Responsibilities**
- Laboratory experiments for developing new basic recipes and the technical implementation of all product activities as per project management principles, incl. documentation of all technical information necessary for the manufacturing process (30%)
- Stability tests, incl. proper documentation (20%)
- Generating data for claim support and communication concepts (20%)
- Laboratory experiments for evaluating new technologies (ideas from internal/external sources and KAO Research; performing laboratory experiments to evaluate new raw materials (20%)

**Education and Experience**:

- Degree is Natural Sciences
- Laboratory Experience
- Experience in the cosmetic field or related such as food science, At least 2 years experience working in the hair care field, practical knowledge of hair care formulations, handling hair samples and familiarity with common hair and formulation testing methods



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