B&W BG Innovation, Performance and UBS Quality Manager

Title: B&W BG Innovation, Performance and UBS Quality Manager

Req ID- R-16854

Schedule : Full-time

Job : Supply Chain Quality

Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time 

Overview

Quality’s role in Beauty & Wellbeing is to deliver desire: via ensuring consumer trust (safety) and delivering unmissably superior products to our customers and consumer every time. By doing this we will create competitive advantage and deliver business growth.

The B&W BG Innovation, performance and UBS Quality Manager will have a pivotal role in the B&W Quality BG, as a key member of the B&W Quality Leadership team. They will work cross-functionally and cross-BUs to business partner for innovation and ensure B&W has the right programs in place to deliver and measure unmissable brand superiority. They will put consumer safety and consumer desire at the heart of everything they do.

Key Responsibilities:

Highlights:

-Key member of the B&W Quality Leadership team.

-Representing Quality; business partnering cross-functional innovation teams and associated functional senior leaders.  

-Ensure consumer safety and quality for product superiority is embedded in project/gate decision making. Improve, embed and measure key quality innovation processes in Inoflex including early Product Quality Standards (PQS) and Technical Risk Assessment (TRA).

-Lead the global B&W delivered superiority program. Ensure we have the right consumer-centric product quality standards for existing products and innovations. Measure our progress, effectively communicate the business impact and ensure plans are in place to address gaps across the value chain.

- Ensure the right quality inputs to disruptive global innovations ensuring the right protocols are followed and adequate mitigation plans are put forward.

- Bring updates/required changes to Technical Steer Coms and RDLT’s/SCLT’s as required alongside quality results/program communications.

- Represent the BG in cross BG Quality Superiority squads and represent Quality/Supply Chain in BG Unmissable Brand Superiority (UBS) Squads facilitating the link between UBS and PQS.

- Business partner the Engineering/Manex/Digital Quality teams. Including creation of B&W Digital Quality strategy and prioritization/delivery of key digital initiatives in sourcing units including DEOC and SPC.

-Co-creation of the B&W Quality net productivity strategy and tracking/communication of business impact.

-Management of 1-2 direct WL1 reports.

Professional Skills & Competencies:

• Cross-functional team working, including with Brand, CMI, R&D, SC
• Proven track record of senior stakeholder management (WL3/4)
• Working knowledge of Unilever Innovation processes
• Experience of working in/with sourcing units
• Strong communication skills.

This role reports to the B&W BG Quality Lead.

Please apply online with your CV and add your OPS if possible. Your application will be reviewed against the requirements and we will be in touch to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

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