Unilever is currently hiring for Head Development – Nutrition Sri Lanka
Function: Research and Development, Nutrition R&D South Asia
Reports to: Nutrition South Asia Head of R&D and Nutrition R&D Beverages Head
Scope: Country Role
Location: Sri Lanka
About Unilever
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
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.
About Unilever R&d
Unilever R&D is an exciting place to work for product, process, and packaging developers. With 6000+ scientists, researchers, product developers around the world and >800+ in South Asia, it offers possibility for seamless networking around the region and global.
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. We are looking to hire a Nutrition R&D Lead for Sri Lanka to be part of Sri Lanka business team and contribute to accelerating growth.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
- The incumbent will be representing R&D in Nutrition Sri Lanka country Category Business Team (CCBT) and own & drive the R&D program aligned to business growth agenda.
- Be a member of South Asia Nutrition R&D leadership team and actively participate and leverage regional expertise for Sri Lanka business growth and R&D delivery.
- Will be responsible to lead the local R&D team and deliver product superiority, product logic savings for gross margin improvement and to steer the sustainability targets for improving nutrition credentials of our products and to reduce plastics for GHG emission reduction.
- Will be responsible to business partner with CCBT leader and marketing team to build multiyear innovation funnel for Sri Lanka nutrition business in collaboration with regional R&D team.
- The role holder is responsible to work seamless with procurement, Supply Chain to support quality agenda, efficiency projects and technology implementation projects for resilience and business continuity.
- Will be responsible to vision, scope capability building roadmap in alignment with business growth ambition and effectively build local/regional and global partnerships to be future fit.
- Will be working together with country regulatory, legal team to drive compliance to Internal Unilever protocols, External regulatory environment while developing product/process and technology solutions with respect to commitment to safety, environment, claim support, specification management etc.
- Represent Unilever in external forums and conferences.
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Be an active member of Sri Lanka R&D site leadership team.
What You Need To Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications
Candidate Should
- Possess a bachelor’s degree in food technology or any of the science disciplines Chemistry, biology, physics or chemical engineering.
- Have 15+ years of experience in industrial R&D in FMCG industry.
- Have strong experience in foods, functional food formulations and proven track record of in-market delivery.
- Possess strong understanding of food product development, sustainability requirements, developing products to highest nutrition standards are preferred for the role.
- Have strong technical project leadership skills and excellent project management skills.
- Have clear evidence of leading and delivering to category agenda.
- Possess strong business partnering skills with business first mind-set.
- Evidence of managing and developing junior talents (Assistant Managers, Managers Senior Managers) is preferred.
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Multistakeholder management and strong networking experience.
Skills
- Consumer and customer insight based superior product development skills.
- Development of selling stories and superior claims.
- Design for experience and value.
- Innovation crafting and execution and agile delivery.
- Commerical acumen.
- Communication, mentoring and training skills.
- Open Innovation and Partnerships.
- Excellent influencing ability, both internal as well as external.
- Ability to actively drive R&D agenda within a complex Unilever context.
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Strong networking, organization, planning skills and information management.
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.
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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.
