Environmental Scientist

Are you interested in joining a rapidly growing and exciting business that includes medicines, over-the-counter products, and food supplements? The Personal Health Care business has an aggressive plan for growth, desiring to reach more consumers with outstanding health and wellness products via the introduction of new brands and products, global expansion of existing products and a strong innovation pipeline. We are looking for an Associate Scientist to work in the Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability function as part of our Personal Health Care (PHC) Global Product Stewardship organisation. This role will be based in our Reading Innovation Centre, an inspiring centre of excellence that delivers R&D innovations for the Global markets. You will join a team of environmental scientists passionate about exposure assessment of consumer and personal care product ingredients that leverage laboratory, field, and modelling capabilities.,

• Provide critical contributions to the global multifunctional Global Healthcare Sustainability Team, providing science-based perspective on our sustainability strategy and action plan.
• Guide and support PHC business categories, new technologies and innovation initiatives.
• Support our sustainability strategy through product and raw material assessments and life cycle assessments.
• Build and maintain technical capability in key environmental expertise areas such as environmental risk assessment, fate and effects assessments, including internal and external evaluations of pharmaceutical ingredients in the environment.
• Improving expertise to publish and educate, facilitating internal training/upskilling and external activities that build and protect corporate reputation and enable responsible growth and innovation.
What We Offer You:
• Responsibilities as of Day 1: You will feel the ownership of your work and your impact on the business from the very beginning.
• Continuous Coaching: You will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager.
• Dynamic and respectful work environment: Employees are at the core, we value every individual and encourage initiatives, promoting agility and work-life balance.
  
  BSc or an MSc in environmental engineering or closely related field (with or without post-graduate experience) with in-depth knowledge in the assessment of environmental fate of chemicals in the environment. We also accept applications from other candidates with strong experience in a relevant field.
• Proven understanding in allied fields such as environmental chemistry and toxicology, fate and exposure, modelling, and analytical chemistry is beneficial.
• Chemical and biological laboratory experience with particular focus on evaluating the fate of chemicals in the environment. Experience in aspects of biodegradation testing and sorption analysis would be highly desirable.
• Leadership experience in using environmental science expertise for sophisticated environmental risk assessment of chemicals in an industrial, government, and/or academic setting.
• Strong communication and partnership skills to enable flawless collaboration with customers and collaborators inside and outside of P&G.
Right to Work For this role, P&G are able to provide sponsorship to those who require a visa to live and work in the UK, subject to meeting all the necessary Home Office requirements. Full details on visa restrictions can be found on the Home Office website and immigration rules are subject to change. P&G is legally required to ensure all candidates have the right to work in the UK from Day 1 of their employment. All applicants will therefore be asked to provide evidence of their right to work at the conclusion of the recruitment process as a condition of employment.


• Competitive Salary and Benefits: We consistently benchmark our salaries against top competitors and every P&G employee's salary is reviewed at least annually so there is ample room for growth. P&G take a Total Rewards approach meaning on top of your salary, you can expect a whole range of benefits including: Double Match Pension Scheme; Private Medical Insurance; P&G Contributed Share Programme and much more - for more information on our benefits package you can access more detail here.