R&D Fragrance Coordinator Personal Care

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JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are passionate about fragrances and developing new olfactive experiences for consumers and also want to be part of building fragrance expertise in PTAB then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

This is a cross category role that will support two categories in the BU, Skin Cleansing and Deodorants.

• SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for new portfolio briefs on Local Jewels
• Help the regional teams draft best in class (what is needed) briefs
• Leverage perfume menu from the Global Fragrance Toolbox (or Sandbox) for locally managed jewels and complexity reduction opportunities
• Work Closely with the Global Fragrance team to define “what’s possible” solutions and timelines if a fragrance (re)formulation is needed.
• Support where necessary on submission mtgs, preparation of sample
• Execute and amplify new fragrance introductions
• Ensure new fragrance introductions are managed smoothly enable best in class execution, claims and positioning
• Lead Olfactive Mapping and Understanding in the regions
• Play a key role in ensuring the relevance of olfactive insights and stay current with consumers and the trends in the market
• Execute Regional Training and Trends Delivery in the regions including factory and Quality training
• Leverage Global Trends, put a local twist and ensure always on trends session
• Deliver training needs in the region via globally developed program, feed new needs into the global team
• Execute simplification, compliance and cost saving agenda in the region
• Work closely with BG Compliance & Savings Single Point of Contact expert to develop and execute plans
• Enable consumer testing and competitive tracking in the region - assisting with samples, placing test with support and decoding results with global team. Would they also work on consumer habits and helping define moments of truth for region

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Evaluation training / Perfumery Training  
• Work in relevant categories
• Science or formulation experience
• Area of Specialization –Fragrance Development, Regional Consumer Olfactive Insights, and testing
• Educational Qualification: Bachelors in technical fragrance field.

Skills

• Evaluation:  Must have training and/or significant experience in one or more categories as a lead evaluator.  Ideally some level of perfumer training and experience working with perfumers
• Leadership skills: This job requires to work in a multi-stakeholder business environment and needs to be assertive in order to lead the function and collaborative for faster decision making.
• Interdependent work within a network and freedom within a framework context.  Collaborate with other evaluators cross the company to deliver the best innovation options for the business.
• Bias for action: The attitude to get things done and to be entrepreneurial and where needed to set up new systems
• Winning Attitude: Our fragrances are a key attribute for our products success, and we strive to always have winning fragrances. They must have a passion and drive for creating winning fragrances.
• Passionate Expert and Storyteller: The candidate must be fluent in the language of fragrance, bringing it alive for the brands and helping our partners develop the best fragrances possible.
• Capability Builder:  The candidate must be able to build capability in everyone around them with regards to fragrances and to implement and execute training in the BUs cross functionally.
• Key Interfaces: Regional BU R&D/Brand, Global Fragrance Design Team.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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