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Job Purpose

The main purpose of the job is to orchestrate the delivery of flawless innovation plans for the Skin Cleansing Category, within North America (USA and Canada). This role supports new product development through leading end-to-end supply chain design, and ensuring the product lands on time in full, with the highest quality and lowest cost possible.

What You’ll Do

Manage the innovation project plans from Start Gate, through to implementation. This is achieved through helping to scope the project, defining activities and timings required to ensure capability is in place, and then following up on these timings throughout the project
Own and maintain project timelines, via MS project, coordinate inputs from the cross-function and hold individuals accountable for the delivery of their activities to ensure the project remains on time

Lead Supply Chain functions to ensure implementation of sourcing strategy, with the right capacities and capabilities to produce the innovations.
Support complexity reduction activities and sourcing analysis for the innovation projects, by working closely with Strategic Planning and Finance
Coordinate required inputs to the business case for the innovation projects in terms of capital expenditure and SCC drivers, working closely with the global Procurement, Finance, Planning and Engineering teams
Ensure delivered Quality for the innovations, maintaining Unilever safety standards
Co-lead risk assessments, and make sure action plans are embedded in the project time plans.

Manage communication with all key project stakeholders and with global and regional innovation planners on project status and risks to delivery.
Prepare all gate documents and decision papers as inputs into the Unilever Innovation Project Management process for all assigned innovation projects

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Bachelor’s degree (Business, Supply chain, Engineering preferred)
3 - 5 years’ experience in Supply Chain (Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering or Logistics) or in R&D with experience on new product development
Project management skills (working knowledge of MS Project, MS Office)
Basic appreciation level of how manufacturing works; as well as experience with molds and assembly for personal care products, how are they developed and how they function.

Who You Are

You’re a born leader: You will have the opportunity to lead meetings with cross-functional team members and drive decisions to achieve one common goal

You’re a dot connector: You will have the chance to put together timelines, with various dependencies, to successfully meet launch ambition

You love to win, and have fun doing it: You will face several hurdles that will put your launch date at risk, which you will need to overcome, in order to win

You’re a changemaker: You influence team members to develop creative solutions when things go off-course, resulting in a different way to execute the project

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

o 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.

o PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

o CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

o PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

o AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

What We Can Offer You

Pay: The pay range for this position is $86,080 to $129,120. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

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Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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