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Job description / Role
Company Profile:
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.
Role Profile :
Role:
- Category Assistant R&D Manager Personal Care Skin Care
Function:
- Research & Development
WL:
- 1 D/E
- Reports to:
- R&D Manager Skin Care
Scope:
- Local
Location:
- Dubai, UAE
- Business Context and Main Purpose of the Role
- The Skin Care category is currently > 150m Euro, and needs support to turn it back to growth.
The Main Purpose of the Role:
- Supports the implementation of regional / local R&D elements of the Category innovation program for packaging
- Delivers the savings agenda for NAMET.
- Gives input for the development, together with local/ regional marketing, of key initiatives to be landed in the region
- Supports the SC agenda as required by the program
Main Accountabilities:
- Responsible for formulation support on projects and conducting factory trials and reporting
- Responsible for shaping and providing input to the technical aspects of formulation development and product testing, ensuring local needs are met in rolling out global mixes
- Assists or Leads the savings agenda and partnership with SC for margin improvement
- Support SC on any third party activities for PC products
- Partner with Local Market Activation in providing technical activation/promotional support for market introductions and support maximizing impact technology for the category.
- Monitor Competitor activity, supporting Global Design and Regional Deploy with regional consumer needs and insights.
- Lead competitor monitoring & reporting for further analysis, support KBS & demo activities for marketing
- Will be responsible for being TPL in NAMET for upcoming innovation projects
- Responsible for managing quality and product safety in the Operating Company, providing the link to the Supply Chain and Personal Care Regional R&D.
- Will develop a working knowledge of consumer habits within the region
- Responsible for risk management, claims and legal compliance based on local legislation and regulatory requirements
- Autonomous in decision making process on various task/projects being handled from time to time
- Assists the processing agenda and strategic direction on SC Support projects
Direct Reports:
Key Interfaces:
None
- Other Business Partners in MSO, Regional and Global R&D. As appropriate: supply chain (factory, planning, QA), respective marketing functions, procurement, suppliers, regulatory function
Critical success Factors for the role
Key Skills:
- Relevant Experience
- Excellence in Science and Technology.
- Processing and technology expertise.
- Project Management.
- Professional networking/external focus.
- Claim or CTI experience
- Category understanding.
Leadership Behaviours:
- Growth Mindset
- Bias for Action / Drive
- Accountability & Responsibility
- Consumer & Customer focus
- Team Alignment & Influence
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering preferred
Key Competencies:
Technical:
- Strong IT skills
- Fluency in oral and written English
- Planning skills
- Project Management skills
Behavioural:
- Strong communication skills
- Works independently and can work with remote teams
- Organized
- Rigour (attention to detail)
- Team player and can collaborate
- Sense for high quality work
About the Company
Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.
Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.
From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.
We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.