Job Title: Senior Project Technologist

Business Function: R&D

Location: Colworth Science Park

BUSINESS CONTEXT

Unilever’s Ice cream business in Europe is large and highly successful. Key to its success is the In Home (IH) Desserts platform. This generates €350M turnover through brands such as Carte d’Or, Cremissimo, Hertog and Viennetta. For Unilever’s ice cream business to continue wining in Europe, it must win in IH desserts/tubs. To achieve this aim, this platform must be transformed to deliver consistent, competitive and profitable growth.

JOB PURPOSE

The project technologist will use their expertise of product, formulation, and process to identify opportunities for simplification and cost-optimisation within our portfolio of products, formulations and raw materials. By analysing technical, financial and supply chain data, the risks and rewards associated with each opportunity will be defined and prioritised accordingly. The project technologist will deliver priorities by leading projects. Key to this is building relationships and working in close partnership with functional team members from Marketing; Supply Chain Planning & Innovation; Procurement and technical implementation teams within factories.

This role will be made as a permanent appointment with the expectation that the incumbent is releasable for other opportunities between 18-30 months, depending on how priorities evolve.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating and maintaining a detailed schedule for key transformation initiatives, subprojects, and activities.

• Planning, organising and executing projects, working in close partnership with cross-functional teams and with R&D experts from a variety of fields. Projects may include production of samples in the laboratory and pilot plant; physical testing of materials and products; cost calculations; quality assessments; regulatory compliance checks and claims assessments.

• Ensuring project networks and risk assessments are regularly reviewed.

• Providing regular updates to stakeholders, communicating bottlenecks, and proposing solutions to keep projects on track.

• Managing supplier relationships in partnership with other functions such as Procurement.

• Writing and managing specifications.

• Providing regular updates to track and report progress toward global targets.

• Providing support and training for new / junior members of the team.

  KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• EU & local country Marketing Team.

• European Supply Chain (factories, planning, quality, etc.) and Procurement Teams.

• Supplier/partner organisations.

• Technical R&D specialists (Processing, Packaging, Formulation, Digital & Data, Materials Experts).

• Specialists in Unilever (Finance, Quality, SEAC, Patents and Regulatory).

ALL ABOUT YOU

• This high-paced role will ideally suit a high energy individual with bias for action and a “can do” attitude.

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent).

• Relevant experience in food technology. Ideally, previous experience in formulation and/or processing.

• Experience of working cross-functionally and with third parties.

• Strong project management skills and experience.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Time management & priority setting.

  LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS

• Personal Mastery

• Agility

• Passion for performance

• Talent catalyst

  TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Short business-trips within Europe will be required.

  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.

  To find out more, including more information about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here (https://www.unilever.co.uk/planet-and-society/equity-diversity-inclusion-at-unilever-uki/) .

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Job Category: Research/Development

Job Category: Recherche & Développement

Job Category: Investigación y desarrollo - R&D

Job Type: Product Dev Technician

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals