Sustainable Packaging PMO Lead

5 months ago


Bebington, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:Sustainable Packaging PMO Lead

**Location**:Port Sunlight Research Lab

**JOB PURPOSE**

This role is responsible for leading the delivery of the _Waste Free World_ Compass Commitments on “Halving the virgin plastic footprint” and “100% Recyclability” at a corporate R&D level.

The role holder will partner with all Business Groups (BGs) and Business Units (BUs) both within R&D and an extended network within the business, supporting them to create robust roadmaps, identify and escalate gaps or key risks, and navigate unlocks are in place and risks fully mitigated to facilitate delivery of the targets on time in full.

The role holder will lead and refine the governance and tracking of the plastics programme at the One Unilever level, ensuring status, risks and necessary interventions are adequately raised to senior members and metric owners, including the Packaging VP, Chief R&D Officer, and ULE members.

To close the technical gaps against the commitments, the role holder will lead the engagement between the BGs and the Packaging Science & Technology team, to ensure the centralised future technology programme resolves known challenges, is relevant and consumer oriented, and will take a leading role in ensuring such technology is embedded into the innovation funnel.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Main Accountabilities**:
**BG Partnering**
- Partner all BGs, supporting development of robust roadmaps on “halving virgin plastic” and “100% recyclability” and ensuring plans are fully embedded into innovation processes.
- Support BGs to embed tailored processes, ways of working and governance methods.
- Lead the internal tracking of progress; handling large data sets, creating powerful visualisations, and identifying and escalating gaps and risks, to ensure delivery of our commitments on time in full.
- Initiate agile squads within BGs/BUs to focus on specific challenges e.g. _sachets_, support with acquiring resource, establishing clear KPIs, and providing strategic direction.
- Assist BGs in creating bespoke strategies to support a step-up in key areas e.g. _refill and reuse._

**Reporting**
- Lead internal forecast reporting process on plastics metrics, including maintenance of up-to-date scorecards, and creation of narrative for key stakeholder groups.
- Streamline the forecasting process and identify opportunities to automate inputs and outputs across shared systems.
- Support BGs to monitor and mitigate risks on key projects, identifying trends across BGs/BUs.
- Support collation of key inputs necessary for external reporting (such as EMF, CGF, CDP, DJSI etc)

**Governance**
- Lead the monthly One Unilever Plastics Committee, ensuring it is value adding, action oriented, and provides direction to BGs on key issues.
- Support preparation of inputs for quarterly ULE sustainability sessions (amongst other forums and steering committees).
- Lead the ongoing refinement of broader corporate governance models to optimise visibility, drive accountability and decision making at all levels.
- Preparation of decision papers and recommendations on key issues within the plastics programme.

**Ensuring a Sufficient Innovation Strategy**
- Embed the Golden Design Rules into innovation processes.
- Ensure the central technology program delivers vs. needs of the BGs and remains consumer centric.
- Highlight gaps in BG innovation funnel to drive experimentation and evolution of technology.
- Identify opportunities to pilot new technology or capability which has the potential to positively impact our progress on sustainable packaging.

**External Engagements**
- Represent Unilever externally as required (industry mtgs, EMF, CGF, CC, WEF, suppliers).
- Attend industry conferences.

**Education and Internal Advocacy**
- Develop educational sessions for broader R&D, BG/BU groups, brands etc.
- Onboard new leaders, acquired brands and key partners to ensure awareness and drive shared accountability of the plastic commitments.

**ALL ABOUT YOU**

**Profile and Skills required**:

- Good understanding of our plastics commitments and their drivers.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage, inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and operate with uncertainty, embracing transformational change and being agile to manage conflicting priorities.
- Strong project management skills with demonstratable experience managing large programs with complex interconnected components.
- Strategic mindset and ability to see the bigger picture and positively challenge the status quo.
- Comfortable holding stakeholders to account in a positive but successful way.
- Results-driven leader with a strong people-orientation, fostering talent development.
- Strong communicator and ability to create and deliver inspiring presentations alongside formal written documents.
- Comfortable managing large data sets in Excel.

**Standards of Leadership**:

- Passion for High Performance
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