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About the Role
As our in-house technical formulation expert, you’ll partner with external labs, manufacturers, and cross-functional teams to deliver commercially viable, compliant, and cutting-edge skincare and colour cosmetics. You’ll own formulation development across our full portfolio while optimizing our technical governance and processes. Perfect for a formulation leader passionate about bringing robust, high-performing beauty products to market.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end formulation development across skincare and colour cosmetics portfolios in alignment with project timelines and commercial objectives.
- Provide technical leadership by translating product concepts into clear formulation requirements and evaluating proposed solutions.
- Partner with external formulation laboratories and manufacturers to achieve optimal product performance, stability, cost, and manufacturability.
- Serve as the company’s subject matter expert in cosmetic science, offering technical guidance to cross-functional teams and supporting innovation.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks early across assigned projects, escalating key issues with clear recommendations to ensure project delivery.
- Lead technical investigations, root-cause analyses, and troubleshooting for formulation, manufacturing, and scale-up issues.
- Define and review formulation testing and stability programmes, ensuring formulations meet all quality and technical requirements for commercial manufacture.
- Oversee manufacturing trials and first production runs for all new formulations.
- Continuously improve formulation development processes, standard operating procedures, and governance to enhance speed and quality.
Requirements
- Degree in Cosmetic Science or closely related scientific discipline.
- Significant experience in cosmetic formulation development.
- Experience across both skincare and colour cosmetics.
- Strong understanding of cosmetic ingredients and formulation technologies.
- Experience working with external formulation laboratories and manufacturers.
- Knowledge of cosmetic manufacturing processes and scale-up.
- Strong technical problem-solving capability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple complex development projects simultaneously.
Work Type
- Hybrid and flexible working
Education Level
- Degree in Cosmetic Science or closely related scientific discipline.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working, with core working hours
- 25 days holiday
- Wellbeing Days
- Early Finish Fridays
- Summer Fridays
- Welcome to Trinny London Starter Stack and swag
- £500 annual product allowance
- 2 weeks work from anywhere
- Company discount for yourself, your friends, and family
- Vitality health scheme, EAP and Medicash (including dental, optical & audiological care)
- An annual personal training and development budget
- Enhanced family friendly packages to support birthing & non-birthing parents
- Pension scheme
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- T-Parties = many office socials as well as summer and festive celebrations!
- Rewards and Recognition Scheme (awarding length of service with gifts, vouchers and additional annual leave)
About the Company
- Here at Trinny London, we’re changing the face of makeup and demystifying skincare, and we're only just getting started.
- Founded in 2017 by Trinny Woodall, Trinny London is challenging people all over the world to rethink their routines.
- We have achieved tremendous growth since 2017 and we’re proud to be one of Europe’s fastest-growing beauty brands.
- We’re generating millions of sales by developing innovative products, acquiring hundreds of thousands of supporters and customers all over the world, and more importantly, building a talented and motivated team to support our fantastic growth.
- Our Values
- We live by three core values: we bring fearless passion, we act with smart intent and we all wear yellow.
- We always go the extra mile, working together to push boundaries and celebrate our wins and learnings as a team.
- We listen to every idea, big or small, and make considered decisions.
- We support each other to achieve our goals and thrive on collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diversity in our customers, our products, and the teams we build.
- We champion inclusivity and want everyone to be the best versions of themselves.
- We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome people from all backgrounds, with their unique perspectives, ideas and experiences.