Product Delivery Manager - Elida Beauty
Location
Wirral, Merseyside | United Kingdom
Job description
Product Delivery Manager – Elida Beauty
Work Location – Liverpool
Job Type- Full Time, Permanent
Who we are … we are Elida Beauty
Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty business within Unilever. We are re-found iconic brands by remixing them for today’s generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were first time around.
Our remixes democratize beauty, because we want everyone on the ‘beauty dance floor’ with our top-quality products at a great value.
Driven by our colleague’s creativity, agility and close connection with consumers, customers and suppliers we are able to unleash the true potential of our loved brands with a fresh start. We ‘Re-Found’ them using a start-up mentality that always ‘finds a way’. Our ‘no silos’, one team approach drives both personal and business growth so that together we deliver outcomes that are music to the ears of consumers, customers, colleagues and the planet alike.
Position Summary
We are looking for a new member of the Product Delivery Team in Elida Beauty who will act as a Technical Project Leader on Sourcing and Savings projects, and as Scale-up engineer on Innovation projects, to help deliver a portfolio of innovative products across personal care that will delight the consumer. The Product Delivery team generally leads all sourcing and savings project, plus governs product scale-up qualification across all projects. This role will provide the opportunity to be involved in a diverse range of brands and consumer applications across our beauty and personal care brands.
Main Purpose of the Job:
- Lead and co-ordinate technical project workstreams to deliver against agreed Innovation and renovation road maps
- Technical leadership and accountability for the scale-up (overall qualification) of products into new manufacturing sites
- Ensure all developments not only meet business objectives, but are developed in a fully compliant way against all safety, regulatory and quality needs
- Identify new opportunities to deliver to consumer, customer and business needs – including but not limited to new and more sustainable product solutions
Role Accountabilities
- Lead and land projects for Elida Beauty brands as acting as TPL
- Ensure that all the mandated product development protocols and stability requirements are addressed. Ensure that the products meet all the consumer safety & regulatory requirements.
- Manage the network along with the project team. Ensure proper risk assessment & mitigation plan is in place for assigned projects.
- Identify and bring to the organisation new business opportunities through novel thinking and understanding of consumer trends and needs. Must include, but not limited to, sustainability game changers and inclusive design.
- Work closely with other R&D functions to deliver assigned projects as well as broader product development capabilities, such as Product Logic Savings, Technical Capability building, Consumer test sample making, etc.
- Develop and maintain technical assessments of the environmental impact of and the risk involved in activities, including the success in terms of quality and OTIF.
- Manage end to end qualification activities of our manufacturing and product development partner organisation, from material selection, lab and pilot scale product making, evaluation and testing, result analysis and reporting – through to main plant trials and first productions.
- Manage budgetary project requirements including partner activities.
- Manage the creation of specifications in Oracle PLM to fully capture all aspects of the product required for compliant high quality manufacture.
- Own aspects of our capability agenda making improvements to how we work, our knowledge and understanding of consumers, products and manufacture.
- Lead input of whole product related perspective to x-functional teams – ensuring risks are identified, understood and mitigated. Ensure timings and expectations of formulation related activities are ambitious and correctly recognised within project plans.
- Contribute to compelling consumer and customer insights and stories through connection with consumers. Support business through direct customer interactions and presentations where required.
Critical Competencies
- 3+ years experience in technical product development roles, ideally in beauty / personal care FMCG. Experience acting as a TPL desirable.
- Self starter who brings a great inner game to work every day making a positive impact on those around them with great verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to handle multiple complex projects at one time knowing where they can add value and where others need to.
- Ability to understand and simplify problems to their key component drivers, driving smart and innovative decision making.
- Ability to apply business leadership understanding and prioritise the impact of development choices considering factors such as cost, consumer experience and the environment.
- Experience within more than one functional area of R&D is desirable, e.g. formulation, product formulation, process scale-up, regulatory.
- Science or Engineering degree in a relevant field, or alternative transferable technical qualification.
- Track record of delivering products to market, through working with x-functional teams and external partners.
- Experience of stakeholder and risk management working with agility and leveraging an 80:20 mindset for programme delivery.
We are looking for someone who can combine the broad knowledge of a technical project leader, with an entrepreneurial mindset and considerations of a complete product developer - to constantly keep one-step ahead with competitive and game-changing innovations.
You are a change maker:
You are constantly looking to improve the world and consumer experiences through formulation development, and create new ways to deliver more value to Elida Beauty’s business growth.
You are a leader:
By combining technical knowledge with a passion for creative problem-solving, you never hesitate to act when faced project obstacles.
You love to win, and have fun doing it:
An infectious passion for success is a must. You are detail-orientated with an ability to manage multiple fast-track projects in a collaborative team environment.
You are a story teller:
You communicate technical formulation successes by translating into a business impact message. You adapt to an audience and influence direction across project functions and categories.
Join us…
If you want to further unlock your potential and work in an entrepreneurial environment where you will have the autonomy to act like a founder to drive brands and business forward. We will help you to unlock your personal creativity, upskilling and re-skilling you along the way. Together, we will develop leading-edge digital marketing skills and best-in-class teamworking capabilities and be a place of work where you can be yourself every day.
Imagine how good we will feel when we see that our creativity reignites growth in the business because consumers embrace our new ideas.
Excited about the Role?
Please apply online. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch to provide you with an update on the status of your application.
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