Category Innovation Planner - Skin Cleansing
Company: Unilever
Location: Englewood Cliffs
Posted on: January 20, 2023
Job Description:
Background & Purpose of the JobThe main purpose of the job is to
orchestrate the delivery of flawless innovation plans for the Skin
Cleansing 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.Who You
Are
- Youre a born leader: You will have the opportunity to lead
meetings with cross-functional team members and drive decisions to
achieve one common goal
- Youre 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
- Youre a changemaker: You influence team members to develop
creative solutions when things go off-course, resulting in a
different way to execute the projectWhat Youll Do
- 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 timelines, 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 projectsWhat Youll Need To Succeed
- Bachelors degree (Business, Supply chain, Engineering
preferred)
- 1 3 years experience in Supply Chain (Planning, Procurement,
Manufacturing, Engineering or Logistics) or in R&D with
experience on new product development preferred.
- Position requires excellent communication skills and team
commitment and proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft
project.
- Good quantification and analytical skills in a dynamic
environment requiring the ability to manage multiple projects and
priorities.
- Ability to problem solve, influence, and lead others in a
fast-paced environment.Unilever is an organization committed to
diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a
better future every day for our diverse employees, global
consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse
workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive
inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national
origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability. For more information, please
see Equal Employment Opportunity Posters Employment is subject to
verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug
screening, background check, credit check and DMV check. If you are
an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time
during our recruitment process, please contact us at
NA.Accommodations@unilever.com . Please note: This email is
reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance
and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application
statuses. Job Category: Supply ChainJob Type: Supply Planning
SpecialistIndustry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals
Keywords: Unilever, Tenafly , Category Innovation Planner - Skin Cleansing, Other , Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
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