Job Title: Ecodesign Manager
Team: Research & Development
Work Location: Mumbai HURC

BUSINESS CONTEXT
Home Care Fabric Cleaning is a ~7 Bln Euro Business. Within that, Fabric Cleaning Powders is a ~4 Bln Euro business and continues to drive value creation through superior, sustainable, and affordable products enabled by differentiated technologies from Partner programs, bespoke technical, instrumental, and digital capabilities underpinned by strong consumer insights. Whilst the track record of the Value Creation program has been outstanding over the last several years, we need to ensure this program is “future fit” with a step-up on these key enablers.

ROLE
The incumbent will work closely with the Format Director, Technology Lead, and Home Care Digital partners to identify strategic workstreams for the “Future fit” Powders program (2-3 years) and deliver them through our partnership (S&T;, Supplier and Digital). To do this, (S)he is expected to have a positive understanding of technologies and the partnership ecosystem.



A solid grounding in digital ways of working and application of digital tools to unlock speed and efficiency for the program is desired.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The incumbent will deliver to the following key workstreams of the “future fit” Powders program.
- Digital: Define and drive clear Digital targets for the team (Data capture in LIMS, model adoption). Work closely with DRD partners to identify opportunities for impactful model creation and democratization.
- Technology Readiness: Drive implementation readiness of new technologies, working closely with the technology & processing team and external supplier partners (as required).
- Technology Roadmap: Work closely with technology leads in GDC and S&T; to identify opportunities for the next wave of technology (including synergies from existing palette of technologies). Execute lead opportunities to drive step change in Ecodesign and Value extraction.
- Be the custodian of technology and partnership kn

📌 Ecodesign Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Unilever
📍 Mumbai