Deodorants R&D TPL - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Unilever

Description

ABOUT UNILEVER

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

CATEGORY INTRODUCTION

Personal Care (PC) business in PTAB is a large, profitable, growing market and thus represents a significant growth opportunity in Unilever. We have an ambition to double incremental turnover in the next 3 years, and we are accretive to overall PC Business Group (BG). We have a diverse geographical footprint spanning markets like Pakistan, Turkey, Arabia and Bangladesh.

We see a clear opportunity to grow our core PC brands through market-making (driving penetration & consumption), premiumization (upgradation), and drive competitiveness across channels.

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 looking for opportunities to develop yourself in PC R&D to sustainably drive value for our consumers, our brands, our business and the environment and working in partnership with functional teams (from engineering, procurement, quality), brand team, design functions and external partners, the Technical Project leader applies his/her formulation/process expertise to realize best practice engineering and project management & Flawless execution  then this role is just for you

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Enable and Deliver the Formulation Project Program.

• Management and delivery of assigned Personal Care Deodorants category initiatives. Develop a strategic vision for the project with team members as required, agree the project goal, objectives and milestones with the Project Leader and relevant stakeholders, and translate these into a technical project plan.
• Manage projects and technical activities (Innovations, Renovation, Line Extension and /or Cost Optimized projects) as a Technical Project Leader
• Plan, execute and validate product lab & plant trials in respective Unilever & third-party plants.
• Partner with Global & local R&D, Brand & Supply Chain teams to ensure flawless execution of all aspects of the assigned projects.
• Coordinate all technical workstreams to deliver projects, including process development, formulation, regulatory updates, savings, consumer insight & claims activities.
• Develop working knowledge of consumer habits and attitudes within the region.
• Partner with quality/regulatory teams to manage quality/regulatory and supply incidents as well as 100% compliance.
• Ensure technical integrity of artwork details e.g. claims, usage instructions, caution statements, ingredients in line with regulatory requirements
• Lead Personal Care cross category initiatives.
• Manage R&D costs for the projects (bought-in and capital)
• Proactive identification of technical risks and recommendations to mitigate risks
• Supporting Portfolio development.

Consumer centric Shape, inform and participate in consumer research work. In close collaboration with our internal and external consumer insight departments and agencies.

 General.

• To comply with the Unilever Code of Business Principles and all SHE and QA policies, including the support of product claims, risk management and environmental awareness.
• To interface with other internal and external functions in support of project delivery (e.g.: marketing, supply chain, supply management, packaging GDC, other RDC functions).
• To manage and deliver their own agreed workplan.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree from Sciences background (like: Pharma / chemical engineers / chemistry / any relevant)
• Years of experience: 5+ Years of experience in Personal Care / factory environment/FMCG
• Preferred experience in Deos category and formats (aerosols, roll-ons, sticks, emulsions)
• SAP knowledge is a great advantage.
• Strong Communication skills
• Strong attention to details
• Stakeholder management and project management
• Decision making and problem solving, critical thinking
• Adaptability with strong time management to ensure managing different simultaneous projects. >

Skills

Evaluation:  Must have training and/or significant experience in one or more categories as a technical lead.  Ideally some level of TPL training and experience working in PC categories.

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 mixes. They must have a passion and drive for creating winning products.

•  Passionate Expert and Storyteller:  The candidate must be fluent in the language of fragrance, bringing it alive for the brands and helping to develop the best mixes possible.

• Capability Builder:  The candidate must be able to build capability in everyone around them with regards to product and to implement.

Key Interfaces: Regional and Global R&D, Brand, Supply Chain

Educational Qualification – Bachelors or M.S in technical field

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.

Unilever Behaviors

At Unilever, how we work is as important as what we deliver. We expect all team members to consistently role‑model our core behaviors that power our winning performance culture:

• Care Deeply – Put people, consumers and planet at the heart of every decision, fostering a culture of trust, respect and collective growth.
• Focus on What Counts – Prioritize ruthlessly, direct energy to the few things that create the biggest impact, and challenge distractions that don't move us forward.
• Deliver with Excellence – Raise the performance bar, execute brilliantly, and turn ideas into high‑quality outcomes that drive category and business growth.
• Stay Three Steps Ahead – Be future‑focused, bold and curious; anticipate what's next, simplify complexity, and unlock breakthrough solutions.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity 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. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.