Local R&d Manager Home Care - Rueil-Malmaison, France - Unilever
Description
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The R&D manager for Western Europe is based in Paris and responsible for the program in France and Spain with a strong link to Portugal.
He/she is the business partner to the Marketing / Sales / Supply Chain / Careline / Legal organisations and part of the EU Home Care R&D leadership team.
The R&D manager is responsible for a team with 4-5 technical assistants.
The Western Europe R&D manager works closely together with the central BU R&D team, located in Port Sunlight (UK) and Casale (Italy) and the wider cluster R&D network in EU.
The jobholder is the expert in local technical matters and provides high quality technical and R&D support enabling flawless implementation of innovations, renovations, value improvement and other relevant projects into the local markets, and supports implementation of local projects, promotional activities / activation as well as giving guidance and expert input in claims / risk / issue / crisis
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Business understanding and strategic awareness
- Proven leadership capabilities
- Track record of project management in complex environments
- Understanding of product design and knowledge of ingredients in the Home Care categories
- Formulation and product evaluation experience
- Competitor benchmarking and claims/evaluation skills
- Passion for consumers and good appreciation of customer and sales
- Organisational awareness
- Structured, systematic and logical in thinking and in doing
- Strong written and spoken communication skills: French and English
- Ability to gather information from different sources and translating those into customer/consumer relevant language
- Excellent networking skills
- Strategic influencing skills
PREFERRED WORK EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATIONAL TRAINING
- Preferably a significant number of years of work experience in a technical environment, ideally R&D and/or SC.
- Project management / TPL experience
- Team leadership, performance management, worked in multi
- Product development experience
- Knowledge in (Home Care) Legislation
- Experience across Home Care categories
- Degree in technical, natural science, or related fields with good knowledge in chemistry and/or engineering.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Business Leadership:
- Ensuring full R&D support to launches and local activities/projects and related events including claims support and activation incl. demo creation.
- Leading projects, in particular cluster activities.
- Ensuring compliance with mandatory Unilever policies and relevant EU and local legislation.
- Translating local needs for the Home Care area into appropriate input for the category innovation programs.
- Competitor monitoring.
- Advocacy support.
- Technical Referent for locally managed innovation projects.
- Delivery of relevant technical specifications.
- Providing technical training to relevant audiences (eg CD, sales organisation, Brand teams).
Team Leadership:
- To provide line management/leadership to the R&D team,
- To create an energetic and businessminded atmosphere and to make local R&D a key place to be for R&D professionals,
- To drive skill development and foster expertise,
- Build best practice and improve ways of working on constant basis,
- To build a strong network within R&D Home Care EU,
- Career development in close collaboration with the EU R&D team and local SC team
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