Unilever Fragrance Programme Manager

Job Title: Fragrance Program Manager

Location: Port Sunlight R&D

Work Level: 2A

Want to Change The World?

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty, Personal and Home Care products selling in over 190 countries and used by 3.7 billion consumers every day. Unilever has more than 400 brands used in homes around the world, including Dove, Sure, TRESemmé, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Comfort, Persil and Surf. As one of the world’s largest users of fragrances, we recognise that creating exceptional fragrances is at the heart of delivering extraordinary consumer experiences and driving desire at scale.

To achieve our ambition, Unilever Fragrance House (UFH) is undertaking a global fragrance transformation, leveraging expert in‑house fragrance teams to craft unmissably superior fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups.

This role is the Port Sunlight (PSL) Hub Program Manager within UFH, accountable for delivering all activities required to progress fragrance creation through to final submission readiness, ensuring effective coordination, prioritisation and execution of all R&D activities within the PSL Hub to enable successful program delivery, acting as a central point within PSL to ensure fragrance oils, applications and evaluations are delivered on‑time-in‑full (OTIF) for submission.

• Lead and coordinate the programme of projects and activities delivering to the fragrance creation programme within Unilever R&D Port Sunlight ensuring deliverables are met on time and in full.
• Utilise project management tools and best practices to aid project delivery and efficiently update global stakeholders across Business Groups and the central UFH team.
• Utilise all digital tools and trackers giving strong clear inputs to communicate clear progress and requirements to the UFH leadership team.
• Clearly communicate project timelines and constraints to the CTI team; collaborate with the team to ensure OTIF delivery of samples for consumer testing.
• Demonstrate problem‑solving skills to handle issues presented while working with multiple Business Groups and Categories. Fully adopt new digital tools and data‑management approaches to speed project delivery, enhance risk‑based decision making and deliver consumer insights.
• Develop cross‑functional project team culture and shared deliverables, magnifying the power of people to deliver effective results.
• Management responsibility for 2‑3 WL1 direct reports; define their workplans and guide their professional and personal development.

We are seeking a candidate with strong organisation and communication skills who wants the opportunity to help shape the future of fragrance development in Unilever in this exciting start‑up mode. The successful candidate should be curious, have excellent problem‑solving skills and be able to work closely with teams from multiple cultures, business backgrounds and across time zones. Team working, a strong passion for fragrance and the ability to identify and implement improvements to ways‑of‑working are essential.

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a science or engineering field.
• Previous project management roles and experience of leading complex/global projects.
• Formulation and/or fragrance development project experience.
• Proven track record of delivery in challenging circumstances.
• Strong cross‑functional leadership skills and ability to inspire, manage and develop teams.
• Ability to deliver through others in a cross‑functional global network, where you do not have line management or category experience/relationships to rely on.
• Stakeholder management and delivering to senior leadership teams.
• Developed data‑management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full‑time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family‑friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

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