Unilever is currently hiring for Head of R&D Indonesia Foods based in Grha Unilever, Indonesia

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

• Deliver ambition of 100% holistic product superiority and drive sales and volume growth through consumer and customer-facing claims, enabled by superior technology, and always-on recipes that inspire, convert and drive consumption.

• Steer the development and delivery of a technology-enabled, consumer, customer and category-centric innovation funnel that delivers the BU growth ambition through for the coming 3-5 years with the desired balance of Core, Future Core and More.

• Drive close collaboration within the Nutrition Business Unit teams and with the GDC, S&T and Ecosystem teams, and Global stakeholders to create a One Team, One Dream mindset and ways of working.

• Lead the Nutrition Business Unit Fuel for Growth agenda, defining in close cooperation with the GDC a year Holistic Product Logic roadmap for the BU that includes complexity reduction and simplification covers and to achieve the in-year Holistic Product Logic targets.

• Lead the Nutrition Business Unit's ambitious Nutrition and Sustainability commitments and respective OKRs.

• Drive a digital and in-silico mindset and transform the team by pioneering and landing end-to-end Product Data Management and CARA

• Drive improvement in People Experience, including Career Development and Operation Effectiveness in partnership with the Nutrition Business Unit and leadership teams.

• Build a One Tech Team within the Nutrition Business Unit through a strong connection of R&D with Supply Chain and Procurement teams and accelerating talent exchanges and joint R&D and Supply Chain collaboration.

• Develop future R&D leaders and succession planning for key roles through training, future-fit plans, career planning, secondments, resource committees.

• Active role in Global Foods RDLT, influencing, shaping, and delivering the R&D Strategy, priorities and OKRs.

• Ensure that the R&D organization design and talents are future-fit, aligned, and deployed to the top priority areas (verticals).

• Ensure the compliance of projects to the Unilever Code of Business Principles and all SHE and QA policies, including the support of product claims, risk management and environmental awareness & legislation.

• Degree in Food Science, Engineering, or related fields. 5+ experience in foods or beverages.

• A strong track record of high performance, leading R&D teams in highly interdependent, end-to-end cross functional leadership teams

• Proven track record of talent management and development. 5+ years of experience leading other R&D leaders and large, highly engaged R&D teams, ideally across different markets / geographies.

• Strong understanding of Unilever's innovation process and portfolio management - Innoflex , product / process / packaging design and principles, claims creation, selling stories and demos, protecting competitive advantage, and deriving value from Intellectual Property

• Discover / Design / Deploy role experience desirable.

• Entrepreneurial and owner's mindset towards risk taking and maximizing opportunity from scarcity of resources, incorporating agile mindset and techniques in ways of working. Open minded, effectively leveraging the scale of Unilever and the power of Ecosystems.

• Strong passion for high performance, generating the intensity and focus to deliver results at speed and taking accountability for execution and results.

• Develops talent & nurtures high performing teams by building a performance culture, rewarding initiative, creativity and out of the box thinking, and creating an inclusive environment amongst teams that celebrates successes and embraces failure as a learning opportunity .

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others - both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.

• You are still responsible for your own results and as a team leader , you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE : Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE : Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people - coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.