What You Will Need To Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications:

• 7 – 10 years experience in Customer Marketing, Category Management
• Able to interpret market intelligence and data.
• Category management Skills (CATMAN)
• Shopper marketing Skills
• Field sales Skills
• Project/Innovations management
• Understanding the Shopper toolkits
• NRM
• Stakeholder management
• Design 4 Channels
• Strong Business & Finance Acumen
• Digital & Analytical Skills
• People Management and Leadership Skills.

Skills:
Leadership:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people.
• Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you.
• You can balance challenge with support and coaching.
• You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• Passion For High Performance: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• Talent Catalyst: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• Purpose & Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• Consumer Love: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Business Acumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

What You Will Need to Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications:
R&D Program Leadership:

• At least 7+ years of expertise in conceptualizing and bringing to market products that captivate consumers within the relevant FMCG sector (e.g., Beauty/Personal Care, Consumer Health, Food & Beverages). This includes hands-on involvement in:
• Simultaneously overseeing a diverse portfolio of multiple brands, each catering to distinct consumer demographics.
• Managing both internally developed and externally sourced products/packs.
• Developing and Deploying exciting Knowledge-Based Selling (KBS) and Demos for innovations to key stakeholders, trade and consumers.
• Spearheading diverse innovation and project types, ranging from disruptive initiatives to cost optimization strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing a team of R&D professionals.
• Proven history of establishing robust collaborations, particularly with cross-functional partners and key stakeholders (SC, Marketing, CMI & Sales).
• Proficiency in translating technical and scientific concepts into engaging communication suitable for diverse audiences, both internal and external.
• Extensive experience in effectively contextualizing various levels of technical complexity.
• Experience working with diverse teams – Global & Regional.
• Leading & Driving Technical Risk Assessment & Crafting Mitigating Plan.

Talent & Organizational Development:

• Proven history of recognizing and unlocking the capabilities of individuals and teams operating within the domains of Innovation, R&D, and Cost optimization.
• Extensive background in shaping and building capabilities to align with the evolving requirements of the organization.
• Acknowledged for building effective, successful, and contented teams, with expertise in guiding them through periods of change.

Consumer Focused:

• Expertise in seeking out and transforming consumer data into valuable insights and utilizing community/human/consumer design to create distinctly unique product and/or packaging experiences.
• Capability to convert consumer needs and aspirations into tangible technical elements in product/pack design.
• Continuous appraisal of products (internal and external) aimed at insights generation (quantitative and qualitative research)

Skills:

• Strong Beauty and Personal Care category experience is preferred.
• Relevant science-based education, preferably in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
• Project management skills including engineering projects.
• Experience of process control, HAZOP, HACCP and safety management system.
• Knowledge of data management, ideally specifications.
• Good analytical skills.  Ability to distil information from multiple data sources.
• Strong team player with strong communication skills.  An ability to simplify technical jargon.
• Project management, influencing & problem-solving skills.  Ability to work under pressure.
• Team Leadership skills.
• An ability to lead multiple people across multiple markets.
• Personal accountability.  An ability & confidence to act as a Category R&D representative

Leadership:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• Passion for High Performance: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• Talent Catalyst: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• Purpose & Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• Consumer Love: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Bsuiness Acumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

What You Need To Succeed
Experiences, Qualifications & Skills

• Has a Degree or equivalent
• Has proven leadership experience of running MCO  programs in Logistics
• Has at least 3 years of Logistics Operations experience
• Experience in Distribution planning, Regional 3PL management, WMS implementation, Warehouse transition would be an advantage.
• Has strong interpersonal skills: can coach, motivate, and convince stakeholders from different levels and markets by using the right structure, style and level of detail
• Has understanding of performance drivers and how to unlock these
• Has commercial acumen

Leadership:

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need.
• You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• Passion For High Performance: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• Consumer Love: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Purpose & Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online