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Job Title: Senior Product Developer
Location: Colworth Science Park
Work-Level: 1D
JOB PURPOSE
Unilever Ice cream business in Europe is large and highly successful. The EU Ice Cream R&D team is the driving force behind the creation and delivery of benefit-led, innovative ice cream products across our world-renowned global (e.g. Magnum, Carte d’Or, Cornetto, Walls), premium (e.g. B&J, GROM) and regional (e.g. Cremissimo, Ingman, Evga, Cucciolone) brands. The team embrace agile innovation and are fully connected to countries and markets to land global, regional, and local projects in the markets.
The business reaches across all Ice Cream experiences from familiar in-home tubs, pints and mono portions and out of home scooping to global and local classics and kid’s favourites.
In this role you will be the R&D first point of contact in an area of the portfolio. You will lead projects in close partnership across functions (Marketing; Supply Chain; Procurement) as well as key (external) partners and suppliers (e.g. 3PM, Flavour and Ingredients suppliers). You will manage a portfolio of projects across innovation, quality, complexity and cost reduction, using your understanding of consumer and customer needs to shape and deliver brilliant, sustainable, product experiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plan, organise and execute a variety of project types as assigned under guidance from line manager, working closely with R&D experts from a variety of fields.
- Work closely with marketing teams in global, European and local country teams to define projects scope at start of projects.
- Use your creative talents to develop great products.
- Lead technical delivery of projects. This includes diverse topics such as product concept development; formulation design; lab and pilot plant prototypes; cost calculation; specifications; quality assessments; legislation compliance checks and claims assessments.
- Manage supplier relationships working closely with other functions such as Procurement.
- Lead and manage pilot plant and factory trials for prototype/product development.
- Write and manage specifications and systems data for the products you work on.
- Work closely with key internal partners such as: Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance.
- Provide key updates for our Innovation Process Management and other relevant systems
- Develop selling stories and supporting CD teams with sell-in meetings.
- Provide support and training for more junior members of the team.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Global, EU & local country Marketing Team
- Global & European Supply Chain (factories, planning, quality, etc.) and Procurement Teams
- Supplier/partner organisations
- Technical R&D specialists (CTI, Processing, Packaging, Formulation, Nutritionist, Digital & Data)
- Specialists in Unilever (Finance, CMI, Quality, SEAC, Patents and Regulatory)
ALL ABOUT YOU
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent) and / or relevant experience in a technical discipline preferably in food technology or development.
- Experience of working cross-functionally and with third parties
- Experience of leading delivery of projects from brief to market is desirable
- Passion for creative food product design and development
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Attention to detail especially with experimentation, data recording and analysis
- Time management and priority setting
- Health & Safety
- Working knowledge of a main
- European language skills are highly desirable
LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS
- Purposeful impact
- Personal mastery
- Consumer love
- Agility
- Passion for high performance
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Occasional short business-trips within Europe may be required.
You'll be reporting to Elif Ozbay.
NOTES
Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your Future Fit Plan if possible.
By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.
Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner Juli Molina on Juli.Molina@un
What we offer
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 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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Relocation to the UK
Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.
