BU Innovation Quality Specialist

Job Title: BU Innovation Quality Specialist

Business Function: Quality – Supply Chain

Location: Leeds - UK

Quality is a key driver of competitive advantage in the Personal Care and Beauty and Wellbeing business. The BU Quality Innovation Specialist plays a crucial role supporting the business partner in delivering growth via innovation. The role drives a culture of consumer obsession, learning from insights and driving superior products. The role demands business strategy, prioritising design cells and cross‑functional collaboration ensuring products deliver the best consumer experience.

This role champions product safety and superior quality, leading teams with passion and precision to uphold the highest standards.

The Quality specialist will support and lead respective category Quality for products PC & BW in Europe with a turnover of >2.5 billion Euros. The role will be responsible for deploying and leading where required Quality strategy, governance and goals that directly impact marketplace success, our credibility with customers, consumer safety and on‑shelf quality of our products in the marketplace. This, in turn, impacts Unilever reputation and brand equity in ensuring quality for making brands unmissable superior.

The role will predominantly focus on the Deodorant category; however, it will partner with the BU Quality Organization team and other categories (Skin Cleansing, Oral Care, Hair Care or Skin Care).

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• Supporting governance to compliance of the products by design and delivery as part of the innovation process
• Partnering R&D, Brand, SC and factories to bring consumer insights for innovations, following process to enable risk mitigation and safe product with early product quality standards
• Support or lead as responsible for superior quality for innovation through continuous evolution with business expectations
• Work as part of BU quality team to ensure suppliers, CM, manufacturing are geared up and able to develop capability inline with innovation and changes being made
• Member of the Europe PC & BW Quality Team, representing BU team in innovation and change projects
• Deliver BU quality innovation KPI, measures and improvements
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, suppliers, and external stakeholders to deliver safe and superior quality First Time Right
• Work with the innovations and operations team on consumer complaints, insights and feedback for business UBS conversations
• Raise risk in technical steercom or IB to make informed decisions with the business team
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes to ensure the company remains compliant and competitive in the market
• Support BU teams to enable them to develop and implement the Quality Management System (QMS) linked to landing innovations first time right which are compliant and safe
• Support in developing new capabilities as well as improvements in current/new manufacturing site to land innovations and big 5s changes
• Maintain an effective Change Management system to ensure business changes are landed first time right
• Deploy a digital Quality transformation program
• Support in the BU E2E Culture Quality Transformation Program
• Be the voice of quality in cross‑functional team and influence right choices for consumers even if it means challenging norms and developing new standards/methods across functions to land safe and superior products

• Strong consumer understanding and ability to bring in insights and influence team making right choices to win competitively
• Understanding of global and operational business strategy and challenges
• Cross‑functional partnership in a project or programme, ideally with R&D, Marketing and Supply Chain
• Analytical skills:
  Utilizing data analysis tools to monitor quality metrics, identify trends, and implement corrective actions to improve overall product quality
• Communication skills:
  Collaborating with cross‑functional teams, suppliers, and regulatory agencies to learn and develop new platforms for innovations as needed and drive change
• Problem‑solving…