Packaging Excellence Technologist

UNILEVER IS CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR

A PACKAGING EXCELLENCE TECHNOLOGIST

About Unilever:

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 🌍

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.

About Nutrition R&D:

Nutrition is the largest Business Group (BG) in Unilever with global multibillion-dollar brands such as Knorr and Hellman’s and many strong regional and local brands. Nutrition BG’s vision is to be a Force for Good in Foods. Nutrition R&D develops and delivers unmissably superior products and solutions that are Boldly Healthier for People and Planet, rooted in differentiated science and technology. With our global innovation centre Hive, in the heart of the Silicon Valley of Food, in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and our network of R&D teams across the world, we work closely with many internal and external partners to create market-winning innovations. Increasingly, Digital and Data are the currency of how we work in R&D, from discovery through product development and deployment. New developments in AI and Data Science will be the crucial differentiator for us to win.

Job Purpose:

Packaging Development is a very critical function within Unilever Nutrition. Our plans cannot be achieved without our packaging capabilities. It is key that we support our community by providing them access to the Packaging Skills and Excellence to be future fit and ensure that we continue to deliver best practices in Packaging Development.

Our vision is to become a high performing team through a training programme which maintains technical rigour and consistency now and for the future. We aim to drive the learning strategy, good practices, communication, and collaboration for Unilever Nutrition Packaging globally.

It is an exciting place to be if you have a passion for Packaging, communication, learning and for developing others! 💡

In the Packaging Excellence Technologist role, you will need to work closely with the Nutrition Packaging Development Leaders globally to understand the Packaging skills and competency gaps in the team and take the actions to fill in this gap. You will build and deploy the Packaging development/training roadmap through multiple training formats including virtual and face to face courses and online self-help training materials. You will also build relationships with different functions and external ecosystems which includes learning providers and professional institutions, that’s why stakeholder management and business partnering skills are key for this position.

You will be responsible for coordinating the key learning programmes for foundation and operational levels, working with different Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the team & other functions, and embedding skills development in a learning environment suitable for a world class organisation.

You will make sure that knowledge and experience are shared effectively for driving measurable performance improvement within the Global Nutrition Packaging Community.

What will your main responsibilities be?

• Coordinate and gather the best practices and establish the ways of workings across global and BU teams.
• Support the Nutrition Packaging Community to assess their skills gaps and plan their training plan in alignment with their Frustration Free Packaging (FFP) – “no one size fits all”.
• Ensure that the packaging training & information (materials, skills & processes) are available to enable Packaging Developers to deliver.
• Coordinate with the Global & Business Unit teams Packaging Development Leaders for all the responsibilities.
• Ensure that the training plans are captured in the Nutrition Packaging Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Work with external and internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) to develop future fit trainings and ensure that the right SME is in place to close the learnings/skills gaps within the team, through specific course or learning programmes.
• Continue supporting an integrated plan for raising the floor of how we do Nutrition Packaging for new beginners e.g. Training Catalogue.
• Work closely with the Nutrition Packaging Developers to ensure that the best practices are incorporated into One Unilever Packaging Process and communicated properly.
• Explore new ways of building skills through the introduction of new approaches and learning platforms e.g. LinkedIn.
• Identify the optimum ways for creating and delivering learning content to ensure maximum impact and relevant focus across Nutrition Packaging Community, no-one-size-fits-all approach: “Virtual-only”, “Virtual-first”, “Face-2-Face”.
• Be an active member of ‘One Packaging R&D Centre’ global community and other relevant learning communities.
• Work closely with the communications partners as part of raising awareness of learning and development opportunities using engaging tools and campaigns to ignite interest and engagement in communities.

What you will need to succeed:

Experience & Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in FMCG (preferably in Packaging Development/R&D/SC).
• Engineering/Industrial Design/Packaging Development degree.
• Passion for people development.
• Working with teams in different geographies & time zones; multiple culture & multi-functional understanding.
• Project/process management.

Skills:

• Bias for Action
• Excellent team player
• Strong communication skills
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills
• Passionate & ambitious for delivering the best quality

What is in it for you?

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.
• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products. 🆕
• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).
• Home work allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone 📱
• Green Mobility Policy.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women and men equally to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.