With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.
With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for al to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Be able to understand the key consumer needs and turn them into viable product concepts through leveraging new or existing technologies, scientific principles or methods.
• Project management understanding to allow timeline building based on the operating model and key business stage gates.
• Technical curiosity to improve and solve complex problems.
• Understanding of the qualification requirements of R&D validation & production success criteria.
• Self-starting and capable of working independently
• Good negotiating, influence and interpersonal skills
• Capable of building strong working relationships and strong networking skills
• Strong intellectual curiosity, appetite for exploring new and previously uncharted territories
• Good communication skills both written & oral in English and good presentation skills

THE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Adaptability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Change Leadership, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Collaborator, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Product vision and strategy development, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

EQUALITY

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law

ABOUT THE ROLE

This position is a 12 month fixed term contract (FTC)
As part a of Essential Home R&D organisation to work closely with all R&D functions around the globe as well as supply, procurement, regional/category marketing/commercial teams and external partners. Their team deliver projects to drive business results that outperform the market and maintain or achieve brand leadership within the category while maximising profitability. This is a role which requires having strong project leadership, planning, budget management, stakeholder management and communication skills.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interface with cross functional stakeholders and partners across Commercial, Design, I&A, Supply, Procurement, Quality, R&D and External Technology partners
• Work closely with innovation and consumer science team, to ensure that projects and technologies are transferred seamlessly and supported to become successful market launches.
• Plan and Deliver projects: Build and drive accurate and well managed multi-faceted project plans withing portfolio/scope of responsibility in accordance with agreed innovation pipeline, budget, resources, and timing objectives
• Clearly communicate risks and challenges and ensure stakeholder alignment
• Deliver assigned projects and activities for the introduction of new development projects and enhancement of existing products in line with the defined category strategy.
• Strong communication skills with key stakeholders (marketing, supply, SQRC etc).
• Manage budget and prioritisation within area of responsibility
• Accountable for liaison with appropriate technical development and supply chain personnel; to ensure completion of all activities to plan and successful handover to supply and launch to the market.
• Excellent understanding of the operating model and drive continuous improvement where opportunities identified. Ensure all key operating model documentation is in place at the right time within projects.
• Ensure all paperwork and key documentation is in placed based on the corresponding SOPs.