Senior Program Management officers

About the Tea Business: 

Unilever is proud of its Tea business, the biggest in the world, with world class purpose driven brands such as Lipton, PG tips and Pukka. Recently, Unilever decided to separate the Tea business to ensure it can best achieve its potential. Unilever is currently reviewing several options for separation, including a demerger, an initial public offering, a disposal or through partnership models. The Tea businesses in India and Indonesia, and the partnership interests in the ready-to-drink Tea joint ventures will be retained.  

As we move through this journey towards separation, we are seeking employees with a passion for exciting entrepreneurial experiences, who want to pursue unique career opportunities and have a desire to be an integral part in building the bright future of this plant-based company. 

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree of relevant education (Business, IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics); 
• 7+ years’ professional experience;
• Proven track record of delivery in program/project management office deliverables including governance, tools, resources management;
• Track record in continuously improving the Transformation Office, both at a tactical and operational level;
• Creates a sense of energy, excitement, and personal commitment to the organization by empowering others, rewarding and celebrating excellence;
• Experience of managing deliverables within a complex matrixed organizational and demonstrated capability in collaborating and influencing across such an organization;
• High sense of urgency and commitment to execution;
• Previous experience of Agile methodology, design thinking, and lean rituals will be an advantage;
• Proven adaptability, comfortable with change and with a demonstrated ability to react and response to a fast-changing environment;
• Ability to collaborate and work across a global team;
• Experience in consumer goods industry is a pre;
• Experience managing a large and complex set of local, regional and global stakeholders;
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior managers;
• Strong ownership and self-starter but also a real team player;
• Excellent communication skills in English, Dutch is a plus
• Is familiar with Jira, Confluence, Agile!

Differentiation in the roles:

Program (project) secretary: knows how to use MS teams, make slide decks, document management.

• Managing mailbox and meeting, in charge of documents / structures and downloads.

Program planner:

• Good at complex program schedules, sprint schedules, SCRUM Master experience