UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR A SKIN CLEANSING (SCL) PORTFOLIO & INNOVATION (P&I) PLANNER – PERSONAL CARE (PC) EU

Location: Weena, Rotterdam – the Netherlands

Full-time

Local conditions apply

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world`s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) businesses, with interest across Personal Care, Homecare, Refreshment and Foods product categories. We reach 2 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees. We make products that people love – and that make a difference. Nutritious foods. Household care essentials. Indulgent ice creams. Refreshing teas. Luxurious shampoos. Affordable, disease-combating soaps... and many more. In fact, we make around 400 much-loved brands including global brands such as Knorr & Dove, but also local brand such as Calvé (the Netherlands) and Suave (the Americas) and of course our products of the Vegetarian Butcher. Shoppers buy them in more than 190 countries. That means you’ll find at least one of our products in seven out of ten households on the planet. And we want every one of those products to make a positive impact on the lives of the people who buy them.

We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model.

JOB PURPOSE

As part of the PC Europe Supply Chain (SC) team, you will be responsible for the delivery of all SCL innovation projects that are launched in Europe. This is an opportunity to work on exciting new technology and innovation projects, that are driving the growth and turnover of the PC Category. You will be the SC lead on these projects from Start decision, until you finally see them on the shelves in store! You will manage a specific portfolio within the SCL Category and fully own everything that happens to this portfolio. As well as innovations, this means you will also work on complexity reduction projects and important margin improvement projects, that will ensure we successfully deliver profitability and growth for PC EU. You will also be part of a fun and diverse Skin Cleansing P&I team.

• Understand the artwork process, roles and responsibilities and how to fit this into the innovation project management process to deliver projects on time and in full.

• Understand the Category and Brands you are working on, Brand DNA & guidelines and plans, priorities and volume per year.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

The key areas of responsibility for the role are as follows.

Delivery of Innovation Projects

• As part of this exciting role, you will business partner Marketing and Research & Development (R&D) to ensure the on time in full delivery of all SCL innovation projects.

• You will work in a truly cross functional team that also includes Category Planning, Procurement, Quality, Sourcing Unit (SU) Innovation teams, Collaborative Manufacturing Operations (CMO) and Finance.

• Your key role is to coordinate all the different functions in supply chain (SC), to ensure SC activities are completed on time in full. For example, you will work with Category Planning on the sourcing allocation, link with Procurement on new raw and pack materials and support the capability assessment for new technology, including investment in SC.

• In the case of existing technologies and smaller projects, you lead and drive all supply chain activities within the innovation process end to end (E2E) until launch/post launch evaluation.

• You are also responsible for the SC inputs into the innovation business case and all IB documents. As part of this you also support transfer price delivery from Develop to Launch decision.

. Portfolio Management & Change Management

• As the Portfolio owner you will manage the health and performance of your portfolio. This means you will help develop and implement portfolio strategies with Marketing and R&D that reduce complexity and/or improve the margin of your portfolio.

• You will also support Category Planning in network optimisation projects to ensure future readiness and cost competitiveness in the long term.

• You will also monitor with detailed analysis the portfolio health, in terms of number of products in/out, critical volumes and technical aspects in alignment with aligned thresholds.

THE QUALITIES WE LOOK FOR

Essential

• Experience in either R&D or Supply Chain

• Project management skills

• Passion for data management

• Analytical skills

• Ability to communicate at all levels within the business and work with cross functional teams

• Pro-active behavior (anticipate rather than reactive)

• Influencing skills

Nice to have:

• Engineering/Technical background

• Experience of working with or in Finance/Quality

• Understanding of the materials conversion processes

• SAP PLM – Interspec Skills

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office , you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Home work allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you!

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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