R&D Manager Oral-NAMET

Job description

Company Profile:

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. Over half (57%) of the company's footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall's, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry's, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan is our blueprint for achieving our vision to double the size of the business, whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact. The Plan sets stretching targets to achieve by 2020 and includes how we source raw materials and how consumers use our brands. The scale of our ambition means that we are finding new ways to partner with others in business, government and society.
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'.

Role: R&D Manager Oral NAMET
Function: Research & Development
WL: 2A
Reports to: R&D Director- NAMET Personal Care
Job Location: Dubai
Scope: R&D Leadership for Formulation, Processing and Category Lead for NAMET Skin Care

Main Purpose of the role:

· Oral Care is an important category for NAMET with turnover > 150m Euro.
· The category is growing profitably and needs leadership to support the growing program
· There is a need to support SC onshoring activities and the relocation on production from KSA to Mashreq
· The R&D role is central to leading the Oral Care business, ensuring growth continuity through delivering Innovation, Margin Improvement projects, SC Support, and Business leadership on trends and local activation support.
· This is achieved through leading the R&D agenda for all countries in NAMET, and managing R&D resources to deliver the program, with support from regional and global R&D teams.

Main Accountabilities:

· Responsible for leading the Formulation and Processing program, and overseeing all category initiatives for R&D as the Category lead
· Would be a key member of the R&D NAMET Management Team across Africa
· Responsible for shaping and providing input to the technical aspects of formulation development and product testing, ensuring local needs are met in rolling out global mixes
· Leads the savings agenda and partnership with SC for margin improvement
· Leads the processing agenda and strategic direction on SC Support projects
· Responsible for managing resources and people and managing budgets
· Responsible for risk management, claims and legal compliance based on local legislation and regulatory requirements
· Responsible to build capability to support the strategic agenda for NAMET
· Would participate in talent development within the geography and be responsible for long term talent development and short term people management, including performance management and coaching
· Will deveop a working knowledge of consumer habits within the region
· Would be responsible for business partnering and stakeholder management which includes stakeholders such as country Chairman, Brand Development and Brand Building Directors, Customer and SC Directors, and Global R&D Directors
· Responsible for local business partnering, including providing project activation support
· Responsible for formulation support on projects and conducting factory trials and reporting
· Responsible for partnering with consumer carelines by providing technical input and insights
· Would be a key role player in managing quality issues with SC
· Management of pilot plant-related activities where required
· Responsible for local business partnering, including providing project activation support
· Responsible for formulation support on projects and conducting factory trials and reporting
· Responsible for partnering with consumer carelines by providing technical input and insights
· Would be a key role player in managing quality issues with SC
· Management of pilot plant-related activities where required

Direct Reports: 1-4 Direct Reports

Key Interfaces:

R&D Regional and Global teams
BD and BB teams
Regional and Local Supply Chain
Procurement
Finance
External suppliers

Key Skills:

Translating consumer insight to develop mixes
Formulation development / trouble-shooting
Processing working knowledge
Project Leadership / Management
Team Leadership
Business Partnering

Relevant Experience:

Worked in a formulation or processing role in the FMCG Industry
Experience in leading and managing a formulation teams at Management Level for at least 1 year
Experience in the Personal Care category, preferably Oral, would be an added advantage
Experience as a regional technical project leader running regional/local projects
Having worked remotely and with global teams

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