Associate Innovation Project Manager - Ice Cream N.A.
Current• Manage the innovation project plans from Bosscard/Kick-off, through to implementation. This is achieved through helping to scope the project, defining activities and timings required to ensure capability is in place, and then following up on these timings throughout the project• Manage the overall project networks, via MS project, coordinate inputs from all functions and hold individuals accountable for the delivery of their activities to ensure the project remains on time• Ensure that the Supply Chain has the necessary capacities and capabilities to produce the innovations for all assigned sourcing sites• Manage communication with all key project stakeholders and with global and regional innovation planners• Coordinate required inputs to the business case for the innovation projects in terms of capital expenditure and SCC drivers, working closely with the global Procurement, Finance, Planning and Engineering teams• Prepare all gate documents and decision papers as inputs into the Unilever Innovation Project Management process for all assigned innovation projects• Ensure delivered Quality for the innovations; maintaining Unilever safety standards• Own and maintain the overall project networks for new variants and new hardware projects, as required to ensure “on time in full” delivery; by working closely with R&D, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, T&E, Quality and factories• Co-lead risk assessments, and make sure action plans are embedded in the project timeline• Support complexity reduction activities and sourcing analysis for the innovation projects, by working closely with Strategic Planning and Finance