Unilever Food Solutions is looking for a Global Director Packaging & Sustainability
The role is based in the Netherlands.
Background: Unilever Food Solution (UFS)
Unilever Food Solutions is the separate business-to-business unit within Unilever N.V. UFS helps chefs all over the world serve tasty, wholesome meals that keep guests coming back for more. UFS creates ingredients that saves precious prep time in the kitchen, without compromising on flavour or flair. Active in the food business since the 1880s, and home to some of the world's favourite brands: Knorr, Hellmann''s, Lipton and more.
UFS works closely with business of all sizes, from independent restaurants through to hotel chains and contract caterers, in 74 countries. We touch 800 million consumers every year and are part of 100 million meal occasions per day.
Our role in Unilever is to maximize share of daily food consumption, build brands out of home, drive market development and create consumer habits, be a source of trends, insights and opportunities and contribute to the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. Our vision is to be the leading provider of culinary and commercial inspiration to chefs and operators.
Our organisation offers great things to your career. We work in a global, closely connected, professional organisation. Our people are highly entrepreneurial and go the extra mile to meet the needs of our customers. We have a strong passion for food and the industry we operate in and we offer big responsibilities at each level in the organisation.
Main purpose of the job
- Unleash profitable growth for Unilever Food Solutions through outstanding packaging across innovation, sustainability and VIP, defining medium/long term category packaging strategy and roadmap.
- Lead the Sustainability agenda of Unilever Food Solutions, with primary focus on technical substantiation plans and portfolio oversight across main thrusts (waste, food safety, nutrition and sustainable sourcing).
Main accountabilities
- Set global packaging and sustainability strategy for Unilever Food Solutions and manage delivery and change agenda for packaging and sustainability globally.
- Ensure alignment to Unilever corporate goals and agreed best practices for packaging and sustainability (e.g. execution process)
- Develop appropriate targets, scorecards and measures for packaging & sustainability
- Contribute to the development and delivery of personal targets of all (30+) packaging engineers supporting Unilever Food Solutions. Review key projects to get packaging engineers learn from experience.
- Acquire, assess and develop appropriate personnel and external support to deliver project portfolio.
- Career and skill development for Unilever Food Solutions packaging engineers
- Work with other category leaders to ensure a consistent and harmonised approach across programmes.
Direct reports
This role has 2 direct reports, plus about 30 engineers/ indirect reports.
Key interfaces
Own Team + all UFS R&D teams
Other R&D leaders (UFS & Unilever)
Supply chain leaders
Marketing Leaders (UFS)
Global suppliers' Directors
Key skills
Key skills
Leadership
Strategic thinking
Programme and portfolio management
Career development
Working knowledge packaging technologies and execution process
Working knowledge sustainability
Relevant experience
5 years plus in an R&D ( ideally packaging) environment
Cross Category/Cross functional experience desirable
Degree level qualification in science or engineering subject.
Leadership behaviours
1. Growth mindset
2. Consumer and customer focus
3. Bias for action
4. Accountability & responsibility
5. Building talent and teams
Our offer:
Unilever offers a dynamic environment in which people work together with energy, creativity and passion. There are good opportunities to pursue your professional and personal goals and develop yourself on national and international level.
To apply, you must do so online. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly to provide you with an update on the status of your application. Candidates who have applied can access their status update through the candidate tracking link or, for any additional queries, by contacting Margo Toonen on 06-11-385483.