Job Title: Sustainability Science Leader – Life Cycle Assessment
Location: Colworth Science Park
Unilever is seeking a Sustainability Science Leader to join a team of experts in our Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS). This is an exciting opportunity for anyone wishing to use their scientific expertise to make a significant positive impact, whilst working in a supportive, team-based environment. This pivotal role will enable you to work on tackling some of the key global environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, packaging waste and biodiversity loss. This is a science role requiring deep technical knowledge in life cycle assessment (LCA) and related approaches. It is not an environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) or Corporate social responsibility (CSR) role.

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JOB PURPOSE

As a Sustainability Science leader in Unilever, your role will be focused on developing science strategy and partnerships as well as, conducting collaborative research to help advance life cycle assessment and related approaches. Science is an international and multi-disciplinary endeavour; you will partner with leading universities, governmental and non-governmental organisations and industrial groups around the world to deliver new methods, models and data. Publication and presentation of research at international conferences will be expected, and there will be opportunities to engage in various technical advocacy activities.
Research outcomes will be targeted for industrial application. As such, translation of new scientific approaches into direct business application will be a key part of the role, allowing for improved assessment of Unilever’s product portfolio across our business groups (Nutrition, Home Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care) to help deliver our ambition to be the global leader in sustainable business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Environmental sustainability science strategy development and implementation: ongoing evolution of current research strategy, partnerships, funding mechanisms and dissemination plans.
• Development of new scientific approaches: deliver new scientific methods relating to life cycle assessment and associated approaches (e.g. spatially and temporally resolved impact assessment, prospective and ex-ante LCA, absolute sustainability, data generation approaches), including writing reports and publications.
• Application of LCA software and computational approaches (such as Simapro, Gabi, Brightway; Python, R, MATLAB; GIS) to enable cutting-edge LCA approaches to be developed and applied in industry.
• External engagement with universities, research groups, trade associations and suppliers.