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Location

Wirral, Merseyside | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Title: Sustainable Packaging PMO Lead

Location: Port Sunlight Research Lab

JOB PURPOSE

This role is responsible for leading the delivery of the Waste Free World Compass Commitments on “Halving the virgin plastic footprint” and “100% Recyclability” at a corporate R&D level.

The role holder will partner with all Business Groups (BGs) and Business Units (BUs) both within R&D and an extended network within the business, supporting them to create robust roadmaps, identify and escalate gaps or key risks, and navigate unlocks are in place and risks fully mitigated to facilitate delivery of the targets on time in full.

The role holder will lead and refine the governance and tracking of the plastics programme at the One Unilever level, ensuring status, risks and necessary interventions are adequately raised to senior members and metric owners, including the Packaging VP, Chief R&D Officer, and ULE members.

To close the technical gaps against the commitments, the role holder will lead the engagement between the BGs and the Packaging Science & Technology team, to ensure the centralised future technology programme resolves known challenges, is relevant and consumer oriented, and will take a leading role in ensuring such technology is embedded into the innovation funnel.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Main Accountabilities:

BG Partnering

• Partner all BGs, supporting development of robust roadmaps on “halving virgin plastic” and “100% recyclability” and ensuring plans are fully embedded into innovation processes.
• Support BGs to embed tailored processes, ways of working and governance methods.
• Lead the internal tracking of progress; handling large data sets, creating powerful visualisations, and identifying and escalating gaps and risks, to ensure delivery of our commitments on time in full.
• Initiate agile squads within BGs/BUs to focus on specific challenges e.g. sachets , support with acquiring resource, establishing clear KPIs, and providing strategic direction.
• Assist BGs in creating bespoke strategies to support a step-up in key areas e.g. refill and reuse.

Reporting

• Lead internal forecast reporting process on plastics metrics, including maintenance of up-to-date scorecards, and creation of narrative for key stakeholder groups.
• Streamline the forecasting process and identify opportunities to automate inputs and outputs across shared systems.
• Support BGs to monitor and mitigate risks on key projects, identifying trends across BGs/BUs.
• Support collation of key inputs necessary for external reporting (such as EMF, CGF, CDP, DJSI etc)

Governance

• Lead the monthly One Unilever Plastics Committee, ensuring it is value adding, action oriented, and provides direction to BGs on key issues.
• Support preparation of inputs for quarterly ULE sustainability sessions (amongst other forums and steering committees).
• Lead the ongoing refinement of broader corporate governance models to optimise visibility, drive accountability and decision making at all levels.
• Preparation of decision papers and recommendations on key issues within the plastics programme.

Ensuring a Sufficient Innovation Strategy

• Embed the Golden Design Rules into innovation processes.
• Ensure the central technology program delivers vs. needs of the BGs and remains consumer centric.
• Highlight gaps in BG innovation funnel to drive experimentation and evolution of technology.
• Identify opportunities to pilot new technology or capability which has the potential to positively impact our progress on sustainable packaging.

External Engagements

• Represent Unilever externally as required (industry mtgs, EMF, CGF, CC, WEF, suppliers).
• Attend industry conferences.

Education and Internal Advocacy

• Develop educational sessions for broader R&D, BG/BU groups, brands etc.
• Onboard new leaders, acquired brands and key partners to ensure awareness and drive shared accountability of the plastic commitments.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Profile and Skills required:

• Good understanding of our plastics commitments and their drivers.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage, inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work under pressure and operate with uncertainty, embracing transformational change and being agile to manage conflicting priorities.
• Strong project management skills with demonstratable experience managing large programs with complex interconnected components.
• Strategic mindset and ability to see the bigger picture and positively challenge the status quo.
• Comfortable holding stakeholders to account in a positive but successful way.
• Results-driven leader with a strong people-orientation, fostering talent development.
• Strong communicator and ability to create and deliver inspiring presentations alongside formal written documents.
• Comfortable managing large data sets in Excel.

Standards of Leadership:

• Passion for High Performance
• Business Acumen
• Personal Mastery
• Agility
• Talent Catalyst

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

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