Chemist - Personal Care

Chemist – Personal Care & Skincare Formulation

This is an on-site role, but due to confidentiality, we cannot disclose our client's location.

Novaris Search is partnered with a well-established and growing personal care contract manufacturer with an exceptional reputation for helping brands bring distinctive, high-quality products to market.

This is not a purely lab-based formulation role. You will have the opportunity to take innovative personal care and skincare concepts from an initial brief through formulation, testing, scale-up and commercial production, working closely with a highly experienced technical and manufacturing team throughout the process.

The company is in an exciting phase of continued investment and growth, including expansion of its operational capabilities and investment in advanced equipment. Despite that growth, it has retained a collaborative, people-focused culture, with strong employee tenure and genuine opportunities for individuals to develop their careers internally.

For a Chemist who enjoys creative formulation, solving technical challenges and seeing products successfully reach the market, this is a genuinely compelling opportunity.

Key responsibilities

• Develop innovative personal care and skincare formulations from concept through to commercialisation.
• Interpret customer briefs and translate them into technically robust, commercially viable product solutions.
• Conduct laboratory formulation work, product evaluations, stability testing and ongoing formula optimisation.
• Partner with internal technical, quality, operations and commercial teams to progress projects effectively.
• Support formulation scale-up, pilot batches and successful