Head of R&D Unilever International
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Location – Preferably Mumbai
Business Context Unilever International is Unilever's White Space Arm! As the ninth global cluster, we work across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever. We treat the business as our own. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever's brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe, and SEAA. As Unilever's growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce, and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands. Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have global presence and hubs all over the world. To support UIs sustainable and accelerated growth ambition, we are looking for a passionate, business oriented and people focused leader to drive the key R&D pillars of
Impactful Innovation ,
Product Superiority ,
Complexity & 5S and
Palm/Plastics on behalf of the UI business.
The role will report to the PC Chief R&D Officer and will be part of the PC R&D Leadership Team. It also has a dotted line to the CEO of UI and sits on the CLF of UI and the Marketing LT and SCLT. The role will head for UI the UI R&D and RA strategy (in collaboration with RA), execution, and people teams globally. Leading R&D for UI is combining the speed and agility of a start-up organization with the backbone, processes, and expertise of a corporate like Unilever. With the business growing at light speed, the R&D Head is a pivotal position to drive together with the marketing teams the UI business growth. We see the role as a guru on design thinking, latest technologies and industry trends. The R&D Head in UI at its best is challenging marketing and other functions to think creatively, inspires us to drive outside in focus and build powerful relationships with the BGs to unlock the impossible.
We are looking for a leader demonstrating at high levels the UI traits, with an unbeatable growth mindset, resilience, and creativity. The ideal candidate can Work and Win as one team and manages seamlessly between global Unilever, regional UI and local HUL stakeholders, unlocks barriers and guides the team to new heights.
This role is for you if you have a strong experience of innovation processes, portfolio management, brands and a solid track record of delivery. Additional, demonstrable evidence of shaping, influencing, and implementing strategy whilst operating effectively within a highly complex organization across all Work Levels and geographies.
Are you ready for a new adventure and the experience of your life Join UI, disrupt us and show the UI world an R&D team never seen before.
Job Title Head of R&D UI
Function R&D
Wl 3X
Reports To PC Chief R&D Officer
Geographic Scope Global
Location: India, Preferably Mumbai
Preferred Candidate No
Key Interfaces R&D: CRDO, Global Category Leads, Global Capability Leads
UI: UI CEO, UI CMO,UI BG Heads, UI Head of SC (and rest of the UI LT members).
External: Regulatory Bodies e.g Ministry of Health.
Main Purpose Of The Job Provide R&D and RA leadership for the UI LT& teams, partnering the UI CEO and UI CMO.
- Responsible for shaping and execution of UI R&D activity plans across BGs for innovation, Complexity & 5S, product superiority and sustainability (NDPE Palm & Plastic Reduction)
- Bring R&D leadership in the UI LT and inspire and lead the UI R&D team across globe.
- Lead the regulatory compliance agenda in line with business and audit requirements for a highly complex global business in collaboration with the PC Head of RA and the Head of Global Product Compliance. Ensuring RA and CR compliance, quarterly compliance reporting, audit compliance and speedy delivery of new innovations in line with RA.
- Be the 'consumer voice' of UI to ensure global programs are shaped such that they land with impact.
- Set up strong digital backbone for R&D and RA.
- Set up a R&D Ops shared service centre.
- Innovation using internal and external (especially CMs) partners.
- Be the R&D 'face' to the customer to support the GTM teams to land innovations with scale and impact.
- Represent the needs of UI in the PC RDLT. Set up representation in each BG R&D and global RA.
Main Accountabilities Responsible for:
- Delivery of the UI R&D and RA OKR's OTIF
- Line management of the UI R&D
- Managing the associated budget
Standards of Leadership All important
UI Traits UI Traits
- Hunger to make a difference.
- Set bold and disruptive vision and bring clarity to short term and long term goals by sharing context
- Creates new opportunities for profitable and responsible growth through the core and beyond.
- Brings the outside in, encouraging experimentation and intelligent risk taking
- Work and win together as a team
- Actively seek alignment and prioritize UI's organizational goals before individual team goals.
- Create a psychological safe space and no blame culture to collaborate as one team.
- Actively invite respectful dissent and share candid opinions in a constructive and humble manner.
- Be considerate listen to understand and respect each other using polite language and tone.
- Consumer and customer obsession
- Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of customers and consumers.
- Bring the voice of consumer and customer into everything we do , always to better serve them
- Constantly improve our products, services and approach to be world class and set higher benchmarks
- Passion for world class execution
- Prioritize and pivot when necessary, with speed
- Delivering effective meetings and managing time well
- Strive for operational excellence, showing rigor and discipline
- Pause and seek for data insights before making high impact decisions and learning from failure
- Inspiring and nurturing our tribe
- Cultivate gratitude by appreciating my colleagues for both and small wins
- Be a role model to create an inclusive climate and act with compassion towards all
- Take the time and patience to listen and coach individuals and teams to realize their full potential
Qualifications/ Experience - 10 - 15 + years of experience in RA and R&D
- Consistent outperformance and demonstrated expertise in R&D
- Science/ Engineering related qualification or relevant experience within R&D
- Experience of working globally in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams
- Experience of complex project management
- Demonstration of holding accountability, impact and influence
- A strong growth mindset and ability to challenge
- Demonstrable evidence of ddetermination to drive team behind business agenda, applying and developing skills and expertise to the most important and impactful consumer and business challenges.
- Evidence of positioning R&D as opinion leaders behind our Compass goals.
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