Hindustan Unilever Looking for Assistant Manager R&D at Gulf Full Time

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the one size fits all approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Enable and deliver the Packaging Project Program (OTIF).Management and delivery of assigned personal care category packaging initiatives. Develop a strategic vision for the project with team members as required, agree on the project goal, objectives, and milestones with the project leader and relevant stakeholders, and translate these into a technical project plan.

• Partner with supply chain, design resources, brand, product development, consumer research, and agencies to co-create and facilitate flawless global packaging initiatives.

• Embed packaging excellence, best practices, and processes for sustainable packaging solutions.

• Partner with suppliers to deliver best-in-class packaging innovations.

• To manage the generation and safeguarding of intellectual property arising from project work, including careful management of.

• Plan, execute, and validate packaging trials at respective Unilever plants.

• Be responsible for technical specifications for packaging components.

• Manage a specific packaging portfolio / platform, including specification harmonization and simplification.

• Understand, embrace, and leverage the internal and external fast prototyping and digital ecosystems.

• Enable an overall sustainability agenda in alignment with the engineering and procurement teams, and support and drive the personal care category towards our medium/long-term sustainability ambitions.

• In collaboration with global packaging teams, help facilitate and roll-out the packaging sustainability program.

• Master packaging functional requirements.

• Consumer-centric packaging engineering: Shape, inform, and participate in consumer research work. In close collaboration with our internal and external consumer insight departments and agencies.

• Connect packaging engineering, consumer insight, and design.

• Scouting the market for technology and design innovation.

• Comply with the Unilever Code of Business Principles and all SHE and QA policies, including the support of product claims, risk management, and environmental awareness.

• Interface with other internal and external functions in support of project delivery (e.g. marketing, supply chain, supply management, packaging GDC, other RDC functions)

• Manage and deliver their own agreed-upon work plan.

Key Interfaces

• Business Partners in MSO – Market facing Brand, Customer Development and Supply Chain teams.

• R&D partners in global and deploy teams.

• Packaging community and capability teams.

• Category Stakeholders, Packaging Suppliers.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably mechanical or chemical engineering background.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in R&D, packaging development, supply chain, packaging filling lines, quality assurance in packaging.

• Experienced technical project leader with a proven track record of project delivery in a complex organizational environment.

• Very good knowledge of MS Office.

• Experience and knowledge in packaging testing and packaging validation in FMCG.

• Good supply chain knowledge.

• Strong multiple interface management and capability of leading virtual teams.

• Very good team player.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to effectively cooperate within multi-disciplinary teams on local and regional.

• Full proficiency in English language.

• Analytical thinking and good at data analysis and understanding systems and interfaces.

Skills

• Fully operational project management and communication skills.

• Motivational and positive mindset can-do mentality.

• Work under pressure and time constraints.

• Proven track record of handling complex tasks and volatility in daily work.

• Very good communication, team skills, and readiness to work with international teams.

• Proactive and can handle pressure in a demanding market.

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.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity 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. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their Whole Self to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.