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Technical & Innovation Manager at Unilever Production AB GB Glace Flen

We are currently seeking a Technical & Innovation (T&I) Manager for our dynamic ice cream factory in Flen. In this role, you will be a key player in implementing new ice cream products, raw materials, packaging, and technical upgrades as well as leading the T&I team. Your work will play a central role in driving innovation and efficiency at our facility.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are driven and curious with great ownership, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

As a team lead, you will:

• Lead and coordinate the implementation of new products, recipe improvements, new raw and packaging materials, and implementation of new technical equipment. Your expertise and leadership will be crucial for the success of these initiatives.
• Act as the primary contact for development projects in central teams and at our Flen facility, meaning you will be a central collaborator in advancing projects and ensuring success.
• In this role, you will work together with various departments at the factory and with external functions such as R&D, Portfolio & Innovation leads, Marketing departments, and Procurement.
• Actively drive, lead, and coordinate projects in the factory, ensuring they are carried out according to agreed-upon plans. Collaborate with internal and external functions on continuous product and process improvements to contribute to increasing the factory's efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure that all relevant functions and departments within the company are updated and informed about ongoing projects and improvement efforts.
• Ensure that the cost figures agreed in projects will be followed.
• Manage the budget for the department.

You are offered a role where you will have the opportunity for independent, challenging, and varied work. You will become part of an international organization with great commitment, where everyone takes individual responsibility and contributes to their own and the factory's development.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

We envision that you have experience in similar roles within the food industry or are relatively recent graduated in areas such as chemical engineering, product development, process engineering, innovation technology, or technical project management.

As a person, you are engaged, result-oriented, proactive, possess good communication skills, and have the ability to work cross-functionally. You are driven to understand, improve, and change processes, routines, and working methods, and can collaborate across department boundaries. You are social, positive, and unafraid of new challenges. Fluent language skills in Swedish and English is a requirement, both spoken and written.

Skills

• Food and process knowledge
• Problem solving
• Creation of strategies and detailed plans
• Good communicator
• Business oriented

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact Talent Partner, Anne Sofie Christensen, at [email protected].