About this Position In this role, you will lead the development of Beauty and Detergent formulations, ensuring compliance with global standards and local regulations. You will manage end-to-end product development — from raw material selection and formula design to industrial trials and product launches — while collaborating with regional teams and external partners to drive innovation and ensure quality.
What you´ll do
- Driving the development of Beauty and Detergent formulations, ensuring alignment with marketing needs while maintaining consistency with regional and global strategies.
- Managing formulas in SAP and guaranteeing their compliance with approved product designs; establishing and implementing clear R&D procedures to support new product launches together with the local team & regional teams.
- Ensuring all raw materials used in Beauty and Detergent projects comply with local regulations, Henkel standards, and global guidelines.
- Building and maintaining external collaborations with laboratories and institutes for analytical testing, claim support, and product performance validation, leveraging Design of Experiment (DoE) methodologies.
- Keeping all formulation-related documentation, specifications, and R&D databases up to date according to Henkel standards, with a focus on innovation.
- Defining and approving Manual Instruction Sheets (MIS) for each Beauty and Detergent products in collaboration with product developers from the Dubai Innovation Center.
- Actively participating in the development and industrialization phases of new product launches into full production and supervising industrial trials for detergents & hair care.
- Attending and leading production trials, providing technical expertise to optimize formulations and troubleshoot scale-up challenges.
- Managing local and regional stakeholders through strong project management skills, ensuring timely delivery of Beauty and Detergent projects across multiple categories.
