Senior Project Technologist

at  Unilever

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Short business-trips within Europe will be required.

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JOB PURPOSE

The project technologist will use their expertise of product, formulation, and process to identify opportunities for simplification and cost-optimisation within our portfolio of products, formulations and raw materials. By analysing technical, financial and supply chain data, the risks and rewards associated with each opportunity will be defined and prioritised accordingly. The project technologist will deliver priorities by leading projects. Key to this is building relationships and working in close partnership with functional team members from Marketing; Supply Chain Planning & Innovation; Procurement and technical implementation teams within factories.
This role will be made as a permanent appointment with the expectation that the incumbent is releasable for other opportunities between 18-30 months, depending on how priorities evolve.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating and maintaining a detailed schedule for key transformation initiatives, subprojects, and activities.
• Planning, organising and executing projects, working in close partnership with cross-functional teams and with R&D experts from a variety of fields. Projects may include production of samples in the laboratory and pilot plant; physical testing of materials and products; cost calculations; quality assessments; regulatory compliance checks and claims assessments.
• Ensuring project networks and risk assessments are regularly reviewed.
• Providing regular updates to stakeholders, communicating bottlenecks, and proposing solutions to keep projects on track.
• Managing supplier relationships in partnership with other functions such as Procurement.
• Writing and managing specifications.
• Providing regular updates to track and report progress toward global targets.
• Providing support and training for new / junior members of the team.