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JOB PURPOSE

This role drives prioritization, deployment, and use of critical products/services within the North America region.

Technologies will span the entire North America business - marketing, supply chain, financial operations, and more. It will cover all Business Units – Foods, Personal Care, Beauty & Wellness, and Home Care.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

You will ensure multiple teams and stakeholders come together to understand, prioritize, build, deploy, and see benefits from critical technology. More than just landing technology, you ensure that critical requirements are accounted for early in the scoping process.   

Understand the technology (digital product) needs in North America through speaking with technology partners closest to senior stakeholders, or to senior stakeholders directlyHelp prioritize North America technology asks while considering global priorities/efforts in order to reduce technology complexity (avoiding different technologies around the world to achieve the same goal).  Represent local needs in global prioritization efforts and carry forward any important local work that needs special managementCollaborate with stakeholders to define scope, goals, plans and timelinesChampion requirements for local needs in global products, then help make these products a reality through working with global product teams or third parties to buildWhen needed, own relationships and manage vendors directly, leading local product management end-to-end for small or medium scale product launchesSupports local stakeholder engagement and feedback prioritization across domains, advocating for user centricity and continuous improvementManages requirements and validation including: local data, systems integration, cross-product integrationEnsure the products are built in a way that users will get great value out of them and local teams will be excited to use them

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Customer centric and empathetic - you understand the needs of (internal) users and ensure products are built and used that are lovedProactive and independent - you can identify what needs to be done and lead cross-functionally to make it happenStrategic - thinking 3 steps ahead. Able to think critically, logically, and with good judgementA curious person who likes to learn new technology.  A fast learnerA great communicator - able to work with people who are senior and in different functions than your ownSomeone who drives projects forward - you keep people organized and on trackA business-minded technologist or a technology-minded business personInterested in the FMCG spaceA team player

Preferred qualifications and skills

Experience in management consulting, product management, or technology deploymentDigital expertise – experience with digital (Data, AI, tech) projects / products / programs.  Experience with analytics/insight productsExperience working with senior stakeholdersStrong stakeholder management skillsExecution excellence. Program / plan management to ensure delivery of outcomes Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issuesExcellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills. High EQExperience with system architecture and data foundationsTrack record of developing exceptional talent and teams within this domain

Nice to have

Experience in FMCG, CPG, retail, or supply chainKnowledge of agile

Leadership

· 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.

· Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

o PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

o PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

o CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

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

o AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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Unilever Canada est une organisation engagé à la diversité et à l'inclusion pour stimuler nos résultats d'affaires et créer un meilleur avenir chaque jour pour nos employés, les consommateurs globaux, les partenaires et les communautés. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifiée nous permet de faire correspondre nos ambitions de croissance et de stimuler l'inclusion dans l'entreprise. Tous les candidats qualifiés recevront la considération pour un emploi sans égard à la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle, l'identité ou l'expression de genre, l'âge, l'origine nationale ou ethnique, l'état matrimonial, la situation familiale, l'invalidité, les caractéristiques génétique, et une condamnation pour laquelle un pardon a été accordée.

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