Packaging Manager AMETBSPAN

Job Description

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.The balance of the Tea brands and geographies and all Tea estates, with generated revenues of ?2 billion in 2019, is growing and profitable with proven potential both pre- and post-COVID-19. As a standalone entity, the Tea company remains number one in the world and is even better positioned to lead the industry and take full advantage of the opportunities in the category, with more focus and entrepreneurship driving greater growth and value.The current vision for the Tea company is to champion a tastier, healthier, more sustainable world of plant-based drinking. Purposeful thinking will be the core anchor of the business, its brands as well as its culture, and enables simple and agile decision making, supports an entrepreneurial mindset and is driven by passion for our consumers.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.Company Vision: To grow a world of wellbeing through the regenerative power of plants.Company Mission:A virtuous cycle of growth for everyone connected to our businessCONSUMER: we will craft winning brands that become the universal beverage of choice: serving only the tastiest products that enrich physical, emotional and social wellbeingCLIMATE: we will lead the way and create a net positive, giving back to the planet much more than we take.COMMUNITY: we will enrich lives by delivering more value per cup and share that value amongst growers, blenders and farming communities.EMPLOYEES: we will nurture the growth of every employee, maximizing learning and impact of every individualSHAREHOLDERS: we will lead value creation with sustainable high performance, delivered with transparency and consistencyOur values:

• Sustainability
• Fun loving
• Risk taking ability
• Simple thinking
• Transparent and fair
• Innovative
• Promote diversity
• Ownership and accountability
• Entrepreneurial

About the Role:ekaterra recognizes Packaging as an important part of the product mix. Not only is Packaging a critical function within ekaterra, we partner with the world?s leading packaging suppliers. Our sustainability ekaterra impact plan cannot be achieved without packaging innovation and technology that will drive growth and, at the same, halve our environmental impact. Delivering superior innovations that are holistically designed for rollout will be critical for success. Packaging plays a prominent role in these innovation plans, and is a key capability to drive competitive advantage. Not only does it fulfil a very important functional role, to contain, protect and inform, but also as the first ?touchpoint? with the consumer, it must engage the consumer, reflecting the brand proposition, and delivering a delightful experience. The role will be based within the AMETBSPAN region (Africa, Middle east, Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan) and will play a major role in meeting our growth and sustainability ambition. Tea brands include Lipton, Brooke Bond, T2, Pukka and Tazo to name a few.Working closely with other functions as part of a cross-functional team, the AMETBSPAN Packaging Manager will lead on innovation, renovation, and cost savings projects, developing consumer and customer preferred packaging designs. The job holder can be a Technical Project Leader, responsible for the delivery of all the R&D programme on a project. This position will interface with Brand Development, eCommerce team, Supply Chain, Procurement, Product development, Processing, CTI, CMI, and Packaging Suppliers, to drive consumer focused, innovative, and optimized packaging solutions.The job holder will have 3 to 4 direct reportees, for whom will be responsible in terms of their development & deliverables.Travel Required: 15% timeMain Accountabilities:

• Packaging point of contact for AMETBSPAN region
• Influencing and partnering key stakeholders to support double digit growth
• Align with the Global & Regional Leadership Team regarding all critical activities particularly related to strategies and implementation of them
• Business partner to regional R&D Director for AMETBSPAN business
• Participating and contributing thought leadership to any packaging related topics at key leadership and regional decision making forums
• Responsible for driving Savings, Innovation, Activity requests, complexity reduction etc for AMETBSPAN Tea packaging
• Working with Brand Development and the cross functional project team, ensuring packaging is fit for purpose to meet the packaging brief, and delivered on time, in full
• Deliver packaging goals, which not only meets the required quality and technical standards, but also delights the consumer and builds brand love
• Engage with external and internal ecosystem to build the packaging supplier and copacker relations, constantly look for opportunities for profitable ways of doing business from end to end delivery perspective
• Ensuring delivery of technical specifications for all packaging components in a project via self or team
• Where assigned, to be the Technical Project Leader of a project, accountable for delivery of all R&D deliverables, and managing the programme of the R&D workstream leaders assigned to the project
• To illustrate strong Leadership skills, which includes but may not be limited to manage, coach and develop members
• To comply with the Code of Business Principles and all Safety. Security, Health & Environment and QA policies, including the support of product claims, risk management and environmental awareness

Key Competencies :

• Strong mastery & agility skills
• Strong business knowledge and passion

Key skills:

• Able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams
• Flexibility in work style to be able to manage several projects simultaneously
• Understand risks and manage & mitigate those as appropriate
• Able to tailor communication effectively with teams and senior leadership
• Ability to influence new thinking with stakeholders and within team
• Line management experience or coaching of individuals desirable
• Excellent spoken and written English

Relevant experience:

• Minimum 5 years in packaging related role

WHAT WE OFFER?Not only do we offer a competitive salary, but alsostrong employee benefits. You?ll get the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and agile environment. We strive to achieve a family-friendly culture and to, above all, create possibilities for all.We believe that growth is for everyone, we believe in growing leaders, and we believe in making space to grow an owner?s mentality. Like nature, we adapt, we change and we grow. We believe in connections over hierarchies and work levels. We have a corporate start-up approach; we act with speed and agility and we have the strength and scale of a large corporation. We are building a better world of wellbeing, and a better you.Excited about the Role?Please apply online by clicking on ?Apply? below. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements. Should you not meet our immediate requirements, your profile will be registered in our talent pool system and we will match your profile to suitable future vacancies.ekaterra is an organization committed to equity, inclusion and diversityto drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringingtheir whole selfto work and this includes you! Therefore if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ?Whole Self? to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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