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Assistant Manager Nutrition Commitments & Reporting

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
3 to 5 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)
Deadline
25 Aug 2019 21:59

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BACKGROUND:

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees. Over half (58%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Knorr, Dove, Domestos, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry's, Marmite, Magnum, Lynx and Axe.

Unilever R&D will build a new Global Foods Innovation Centre in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The Foods R&D organizations, currently based in Vlaardingen (The Netherlands), Heilbronn (Germany) and Poznan (Poland) will be co-located in the new centre.

In this way Unilever will create critical mass in expertise areas to ensure that the technologies ultimately bring benefit-led, breakthrough innovations to the markets. In addition, we aim to evolve our R&D sites into innovation ecosystems to leverage the knowledge and expertise of external partners.

The new centre is expected to be fully operational by November 2019. The new jobholder should be willing and able to relocate to Wageningen, NL, in November 2019.

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

Unilever wants to enable people to eat healthy, sustainable, diets. The purpose of this job is to drive our current Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) nutrition commitments with emphasis on Front of Pack (FOP) Labelling and deliver nutrition corporate communications such as the USLP narrative including reporting of progress towards our nutritional commitments

JOB SUMMARY

  • Deliver insights that will underpin the global strategy and position on nutritional labelling such as: understanding the external environment on Front of Pack labelling and the implications of the various FOP labelling systems used around the world on the Unilever portfolio
  • Calculate labels as part of nutrition advocacy talking points
  • Deliver the corporate nutrition narrative through for e.g. the USLP narrative, ensuring sign-off with key stakeholders, and develop appropriate communication material for both internal and external use
  • Ensure validated, external assurance proof, reporting of progress on nutrition commitments as stated in the USLP
  • Responsible for other corporate nutrition communications
  • Support external assessments such as ATNI
  • Build nutrient profiling expertise to validate externally used nutrient profiles for e.g. FOP labelling schemes and reformulation

KEY REQUIREMENTS

  • Education: Master’s or higher degree in Nutrition, Food Science or related discipline, like Public Health
  • >3 years of relevant working experience in nutrition in FMCG/foodservice or public health/communications. Preferable in a R&D environment.
  • Experience with nutrient profiling systems
  • Proven experience and understanding in Nutrition Front of Pack labelling systems.
  • Pro-active, self-direction with a high level of initiative and persistence and a very much hands on approach to results delivery
  • Flexible self-starter with good communication and excellent organisational skills
  • Fluent in English, both written and oral is essential as are strong data analysis skills
  • The person must be a strong team-player, capable of influencing others and building relationships across functions at different levels and through virtual networks.
  • Develop and maintain excellent interfaces with internal and external business partners
  • Ability to effectively apply and implement argumentation to influence Unilever standards and commitments

- A better world. A better business. A better you -
We’ve been pioneers, innovators and future-makers for over 120 years. The success we’ve achieved means that, today, 2.5 billion people will use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.
Our brands (such as Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Domestos/Glorix & Robijn)…


- A better world. A better business. A better you -

We’ve been pioneers, innovators and future-makers for over 120 years. The success we’ve achieved means that, today, 2.5 billion people will use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.

Our brands (such as Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Domestos/Glorix & Robijn) give us a unique opportunity to create positive change, to grow our business, and to achieve our purpose of making sustainable living commonplace.

FMCG
Rotterdam
Active in 190 countries
155,000 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 30 years

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