Associate B&W Hair Innovation Planning Manager

Background & Purpose of the Job

The main purpose of the job is to orchestrate the delivery of flawless innovation plans for a designated category within North America (USA and Canada).  This role supports new product development through leading end-to-end supply chain design, and ensuring the product lands on time in full, with the highest quality and lowest cost possible.

• Manage the innovation project plans from Start Gate, through to implementation. This is achieved through helping to scope the project, defining activities and timings required to ensure capability is in place, and then following up on these timings throughout the project
• Own and maintain project time plans, via MS project, coordinate inputs from the cross-function and hold individuals accountable for the delivery of their activities to ensure the project remains on time
• Lead Supply Chain functions to ensure implementation of sourcing strategy, with the right capacities and capabilities to produce the innovations.  
• Support complexity reduction activities and sourcing analysis for the innovation projects, by working closely with Strategic Planning and Finance 
• Coordinate required inputs to the business case for the innovation projects in terms of capital expenditure and SCC drivers, working closely with the global Procurement, Finance, Planning and Engineering teams
• Ensure delivered Quality for the innovations, maintaining Unilever safety standards
• Co-lead risk assessments, and make sure action plans are embedded in the project time plans.
• Manage communication with all key project stakeholders and with global and regional innovation planners on project status and risks to delivery.
• Prepare all gate documents and decision papers as inputs into the Unilever Innovation Project Management process for all assigned innovation projects

Who You Are

• You’re a born leader:  You will have the opportunity to lead meetings with cross-functional team members and drive decisions to achieve one common goal
• You’re a dot connector: You will have the chance to put together timelines, with various dependencies, to successfully meet launch ambition
• You love to win, and have fun doing it: You will face several hurdles that will put your launch date at risk, which you will need to overcome, in order to win
• You’re a changemaker: You influence team members to develop creative solutions when things go off-course, resulting in a different way to execute the project

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Supply chain, Engineering preferred)
• 4+ years’ experience in Supply Chain (Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering or Logistics) or in R&D with experience on new product development
• Project management skills (working knowledge of MS Project, MS Office)
• Basic appreciation level of how manufacturing works; as well as moulds and assembly for personal care products, how are they developed and how they function 

Pay: The pay range for this position is $88,600 to $133,000. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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