**ABOUT UNILEVER**
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. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.
**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 looking for challenges and are curious, active, team player, ambitious to create beautiful and truly consumer appealing skin care products, then this role is just for you!
**LOCATION**
Cuernavaca or Mexico City, with frequent travel between the two sites
**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**
R&D Skin Care Manager is accountable for delivering Innovation/Technical Readiness of projects for Mexico and North of Latam, focusing on Pond's, St. Ives and Vaseline brands, and to build innovation plans working alongside the brand & trade teams.
R&D Skin Care Manager is key R&D interface with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders regarding Skin Care mixes/opportunities or pay-points to solve through continuous improvement.
**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED**
**Experiences** **& Qualifications**
- Responsible to build and deliver 5S programme for Skin Care coordinating all workstreams of Smart Product/iGM Smart Technology (formulation, packaging)
- Will Coordinate Skin Care program landing by:
- Ensure maximum synergies across operations are achieved (briefing global teams for Technology Development that can rollout to Latam)
- Disseminate Innovation/mix insights from other Clusters/Global teams.
- Coordinate Skin Care R&D Budget definition and execution for Mexico
- Lead Mexico R&D team
- Lead technical marketing within CSP, Sales and Clients.
- Deliver brands 8Q plans through himself/team and develop the right Technical Capabilities together with R&D global / Latam Leaders
- Drive technical elements in support of the business (Technical support to local business, technical dossiers, Technical Training Materials-Academy, etc.).
- Build & Deliver 5S targets for Skin Care brands and coordinate with Latam and Global team.
- Agree with Global Teams on new Technical Briefs, representing Latam in proper forums.
- Support the Global Teams to ensure innovation & Technology can be scaled up outside the cluster.
**Skills**
Previous experience in B&W or PC categories,
- Innovation crafting and execution
- Strategic partnership and collaborative ecosystem
- Design for value
- Agile delivery
**Leadership**
- Personal mastery
- Business acumen
- Consumer Love
- Passion for high performance
**ARE YOU INTERESTED?**
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
