SEA B&W Innovations Quality Lead

This role as SEA B&W Innovations Quality Lead at Unilever focuses on integrating quality early in the innovation cycle, managing risks, and supporting manufacturing and distribution processes. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with innoflex, aligning risk mitigation with stakeholders, designing for manufacturing, and leading early PQS development. The role also involves partnering with TPL for technical readiness and supporting Quality KPIs and QMS processes.

Must Have

• Lead Quality requirements early in the innovations cycle
• Support the management of risk and mitigation
• Support for SRT, LRT and first production
• Support in transit tests and development of products
• Develop MP alignment and hand over to MP team
• Leverage digital for improvement opportunities
• Partner with TPL to flawlessly execute the TRA for innovation and other change
• Support the Project Risk Assessment (Level 3)
• Support the Quality KPIs (incident, complaints, PQS)
• Support the Quality management System process
• HACCP plan development, harmonization
• GMP, Allergen mgt, hygienic design, foreign matter, SPC
• Lead early PQS development and implementation
• Compliance to innoflex process
• Clear risk and mitigation aligned with stakeholders for every gate
• Design for manufacturing
• Early PQS
• Change management checklist
• FPA implementation
• Innovation Launch Technical Readiness Score

Job Details

**Location: Gateway-Cavite

Main Job Purpose:**

Quality in Design – lead Quality requirements early in the innovations cycle

Risk management – support the management of risk and mitigation

Manufacturing – support for SRT, LRT and first production

Distribution – support in transit tests and development of products

MP alignment – development with MP and hand over to MP team

Quality Leadership within innovation – leverage digital for improvement opportunities

Partner with TPL to flawlessly execute the TRA for innovation and other change, what consists on risk identification and mitigation across the region, support risk identification, develop mitigation / contingency plan, implement actions, follow ups with the areas and communication to stakeholders

Support the Project Risk Assessment (Level 3)

Support the Quality KPIs (incident, complaints, PQS)

Support the Quality management System process for the most relevant topics

HACCP plan development, harmonization

GMP, Allergen mgt, hygienic design, foreign matter, SPC

Lead early PQS development and implementation

Key Accountabilities:

Outputs / performance Metrics

• Compliance to innoflex process
• Clear risk and mitigation aligned with stakeholders for every gate
• Design for manufacturing
• Early PQS
• Change management checklist
• FPA implementation
• Innovation Launch Technical Readiness Score

Professional Skills:

• Any technical course: Chem Engg, Chemistry, Engg
• In-depth experience in manufacturing technologies in design/ technology/ operations roles.
• Project Delivery (All sub skills - Fully Operational)
• WCM EPM (Working Knowledge)
• Change management
• Basic knowledge on R&D formulation and packaging

Experience Required:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Manufacturing and Change management
• Solid experience in managing E2E project spanning across technologies.
• Self-driven: strong drive to learn and high intensity to deliver target
• Influencing and strong communication skill to collaborate and to drive others
• Has proven experience on leading digital projects in FMCG industries (processing and packing)
• Significant Project / Design Management experience

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