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Your role

Responsibilities

Work as part of a cross-functional team to develop great products for the ready-to-drink portfolio. In this role, you’ll be responsible for owning and delivering development activities, including:

• Development of amazing, market-leading products across the ready-to-drink portfolio.
• Bringing passion for tea, with an understanding of the latest trends in the beverage industry.
• Ownership of innovation and creativity, in partnership with the marketing and insights teams.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional partners, including Marketing, Supply chain, Procurement and Quality.
• Designing and carrying out practical lab work for development programs & projects (including shipment, tastings, shelf life testing and quality analysis).
• Scaling up winning prototypes from lab, to pilot plant, to factory.
• Ingredient sourcing, driving innovation and quality through material partnerships.
• Sample generation for project requirements, consumer testing, creativity workshops and team tastings.
• Product analysis, ensuring high quality and consumer safety.
• Record and write up experimental plans/results, maintain product-related documentation and capture key technical updates.
• Partnering with regulatory and local country teams to ensure development meets local needs/requirements.

About you

To apply for this role you need to have the following eligibility criteria:

• Degree (or equivalent) in Food Science, Chemical Science or Engineering and/or relevant experience in FMCG in fields related to product development in foods or beverages.
• Eagerness to work in a practical, lab-based setting.
• Passion for product development, innovation and making great products.
• Creativity & flair, with an enthusiasm to innovate and translate product briefs into winning launches.
• Strong communication, organisational and time management skills, with an ability to flex and multitask.

Benefits

Here is a short overview of some of Unilever's benefits:

• Base salary
• Awarding excellence
• Share schemes
• Pension scheme
• Family-friendly
• Subsidised onsite shop

Training & development

Unilever supports everything that enables you to grow in your role and beyond – from hands-on experience to mentoring and training programmes. As a purpose-led, future-fit company, Unilever empowers people to build careers anchored by purpose. The company do so by offering a unique approach to development for all, encouraging employees to consider personal aspects of leadership and well-being to select the skills they wish to improve upon.

Career progression

Real change starts with U at Unilever. Unilever is a purpose-led company and they make sure that when you take a job with the company, not only will you get the opportunity to build your career, your work will help to make a positive impact. Here, you can bring your purpose and passions to life through your work and grow in a career that makes you proud of what you do. Unilever want to lead the way, and in doing so give you the opportunity to enrich your career experience and go further than you ever thought possible.

How to apply

Application process

• Online application
• Profile assessment
• Digital interview
• Virtual discovery centre

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• careers.unilever.com/benefits-learning-wellbeing
• careers.unilever.com/working-at-unilever
• careers.unilever.com/unilever-future-leaders-programme