Researcher - Hair Care

Overview of the job

India is one of the critical regions for P&G’s growing Hair Care business in Asia with strong brands like Pantene, H&S and Herbal Essence. We are always looking to innovate on our brand offerings in the region, towards delivering new consumer-based ideas, benefits visualization and demos. This is critical to our success in continuing to grow and compete/win in the market.

We are looking for a Researcher, whose role is to understand the market & consumer Habits and Practices, support current business, qualify, and amplify global and regional initiatives in the Indian sub-continent as well as white space expansion.

Your team

Located at the P&G Mumbai, you will be part of the Product Research discipline in the Hair Care organization. You will have the opportunity to work in multi-functional teams, collaborating with commercial partners across Mumbai as well as R&D teams based out of US and Singapore. In this role, you will also engage with both internal and external partners.

How success looks like

The ideal candidate will be responsible for the overall R&D qualification of the future Hair Care programs aimed at delivering a sustainable win in this challenging market. He/she will be working closely with regional R&D and commercial teams to design, qualify and execute a pipeline of regional initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

This will include the day-to-day preparation and execution of standard technical characterization and routine consumer research study placement. Digital system acuity and onboarding to the range of P&G systems will be critical. This includes systems for data/statistical analysis, product life cycle management, QA release and documentation, and other R&D processes. You will become knowledgeable in the requirements for consumer study placement, logistics etc., as well as proper documentation of work.

Responsibilities will also entail executing and analyzing consumer insights and claims' tests results. You will lead product technical studies in the labs and consumer studies in the field in order to understand consumer unmet needs and design future products. You will further work with multi-functional teams to develop new ideas and demos to delight our consumers. Partnership with senior researchers & technologists to develop and test out prototypes will be a key to success. Finally, you will also capture key insights and technical findings from research projects and share results & recommendations in a clear succinct manner.