Background & Purpose of the Job

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Refreshments, Home and Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries. In the United States, some of our brand icons are: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Degree, Dove personal care products, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, Klondike, Lipton, Magnum, Noxzema, Q-tips, Simple, St. Ives,Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies.

Unilever offers vast and exciting career paths within R&D. Creating new innovations and enhancing our existing brand portfolio – it’s all yours in Unilever’s R&D formulation development function. As a formulation development summer intern at Unilever you will learn how we develop new personal care formulations in either the skin, cleansing, or hair teams using the latest technologies, bringing new innovations to life for our consumers.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

With guidance from a mentor and manager, formulation summer interns will manage one major summer project on their own. In order to do this, formulation summer interns are expected to assess the technical feasibility of potential formulations and identify formulation-related issues such as stability or safety considerations. Other responsibilities include interacting with other groups within R&D (process engineering, consumer science, and packaging), translating consumer and/or technical insights into compelling creative demos, and investigating and resolving quality issues.

• You’re a born leader: You will lead your own project
• You’re a dot connector: You will design & conduct experiments, collect & analyze data, and provide technically solid recommendations as a result of that work
• You’re a storyteller: You will present your project to senior management
• You’re a culture & change champion: You bring your own experiences and uniqueness to the team, which is valued in our inclusive work environment

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Undergraduate with sophomore or junior status based on Major in Chemistry or other related majors.
• Must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
• Ability to conduct an experimental program to generate relevant, high-quality data with subsequent data analysis and interpretation.
• Able to work under pressure in order to meet project deadlines
• Ability to work with others, communicate effectively, and contribute to cross-functional teams.
• Ability to relocate and willingness to work in one of Unilever's factory locations

• Interns have access to the company gym!
• Flexible work policy - work wherever is comfortable for you
• Unilever company "shop" - interns have access to Unilever products at really cheap prices
• Free ice cream!

Unilever has a simple but clear purpose – to make sustainable living commonplace. They believe this is the best long-term way for the business to grow. On any given day, two billion people from around the world use Unilever products from iconic brands like Dove, Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Dollar Shave Club, and Knorr to look good, feel good, and get more out of life.