PC R&D Asst. Packaging Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Packaging Development Manager Personel Care (Maternity Cover for 1 Year)

Function : R&D

Reports to : PC PTAB Packaging R&D Lead

Scope : Regional

Location : Istanbul / Turkiye

Terms & Conditions : Full time

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 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.

Within Unilever the Personal Care Category represents 30% of its business, and owns some of Unilever´s largest brands, such as Dove and Rexona

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Enable and Deliver the Packaging Project Program OTIF.

Management and delivery of assigned Personal Care Categories packaging initiatives. Develop a strategic vision for the project with team members as required, agree the project goal, objectives and milestones with the Project Leader and relevant stakeholders, and translate these into a technical project plan.

• Partner with Supply chain, design resource, brand, product development, consumer research and agencies to co-create and facilitate flawless global packaging initiatives.
• Embed packaging excellence best-practice and processes for sustainable packaging solutions.
• Partner with suppliers to deliver best in class packaging innovations.
• To manage the generation and safeguarding of intellectual property arising from project work, including careful management of.
• Plan, execute and validate packaging trials in respective Unilever plants.
• Be responsible for technical specifications for packaging components.
• Manage a specific packaging portfolio / platform including specification harmonization and simplification.
• Understand, embrace and leverage the internal and external fast prototyping and digital ecosystem

Enable overall sustainability agenda  in alignment with engineering and procurement team, support and drive the Personal Care Category towards our medium / long-term sustainability ambition.

Consumer centric packaging engineering Shape, inform and participate in consumer research work. In close collaboration with our internal and external consumer insight departments and agencies.

General.

Key Interfaces :

Business Partners in MSO - Market facing Brand, Customer Development and Supply Chain teams.

R&D partners in global and deploy teams.

Packaging community and capability teams.

Category Stakeholders, Packaging Suppliers.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Experiences & Qualifications

Skills

Professional Skills

Leadership

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.