Home Care Category Portfolio & Innovation Planner - Home and Hygiene

Background information
For a defined part of the HC Category portfolio:
• Innovation implementation for the end to end supply chain;
• Management of all portfolio changes i.e. innovation, renovation, reallocation, technical change and VIP projects;
• Portfolio management and complexity reduction;
• Interfaces between Marketing, Research & Development (R&D) and various Unilever Supply Chain functions, such as Category Procurement Operations, Product Group Quality, Innovation Managers at sourcing sites, Global SC, 3rdParty Manufacturing.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities
• Deliver projects on time in full launch with no quality issues of all innovation projects:
- Project responsibility for the end to end supply chain, with key accountability to ensure all plan, source, make and deliver activities are completed on time in full;
- Ensure all innovation implementations are planned taking into account the delivery of the key Category KPI’s (Cost/Service/Stocks/Obsoletes);
- Adhere and enforce Unilever and Category business principles, guidelines and threshold criteria.
- Ensure effective communication with peers & stakeholders in Marketing, Research & Development (R&D), Planning, Procurement, Quality Assurance (QA), Factories, 3rd Party Manufacturing (3PM) organisation;
- Support Risk Assessments (Technical Risk Assessment (TRA) & Supply Chain Risk Assessment) for critical projects at each project stage;

• Support Supply Planning team with the implementation of all other technical changes within the portfolio:
- Responsibility for the end to end supply chain delivery of non-innovation changes including VIP projects, reallocation requests, regulatory changes etc.;
- Work directly with Marketing Operations (BD) on all MSO requests received from the MSO’s (innovation and renovation projects);
- Accountability for the SC approval and implementation of all MSO requests.

• Ownership of the Category sourcing matrices and all Category master data:
- Responsibility for all master data code creation with the MDM Operations team in Katowice as well as maintenance;
- Responsibility and ownership for the maintenance and issuing of all sourcing matrices for innovation and non-innovation projects.

• Support in managing the portfolio and complexity reduction initiatives:
- Support and ensure delivery of all Perfect portfolio projects;
- Ensure continuous improvement and complexity reduction in all innovation projects;
- Support the complexity reduction projects

Skills & Experience
• Bachelor of Science Degree, preferably in Science, Engineering or Logistics;
Project management Skills
• An enthusiastic self-starter with excellent communication skills and an ability to form effective working relationships at all levels within the business and with people not co-located;
• Strong analytical skills and a good background and appreciation of project management and planning;
• Numeric and IT skills, including the use of SAP and Excel, are essential in this role;
• Supply Chain operations, planning and/or project management experience is beneficial;
• Experience in either R&D / Plan / Make / Source and understanding of the principles of the others;
• Organisational awareness & strategic influencing skills;
• Understanding of: Finance / Quality in Innovation for Manufacturing;
• Data management/analysis Skills;
• Proactive and problem-solving approach;
• Financial knowledge/understanding of business cases & transfer price drivers will be an advantage

KEY INTERFACE/CONTACTS
• Marketing (central & local)
• R&D (RDC & GDC)
• (Category) Planning,
• T&I
• QA
• Logistics
• Procurement
• SC Finance
• 3PMO
• Global SC 
• Artwork creation teams;

Disclaimer

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