Global Qms Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Unilever

Description

Job Title:
GLOBAL QMS SPECIALIST - International Expansion, HEALTH & WELLBEING

Business Function:
Quality**
Location: 100VE/ Kingston


JOB PURPOSE

Established in 2018, Unilever's US-centric Health & Wellbeing business is a collective of fast-growing, science-backed companies powering a lifestyle of wellbeing designed for a lifetime of possibilities.

Comprised of Liquid I.V., Nutrafol, OLLY, Onnit, SmartyPants, Welly and Equilibra (in Italy), the Health & Wellbeing Collective operates with a start-up mindset and is supporting consumers on their proactive wellbeing journey by bringing innovative products to the market.

Unilever identified Health & Wellbeing as a key growth space for the future and has built the business through a clear M&A criteria and growth strategy to €1bn+ turnover, delivering double-digit, volume-led growth quarter after quarter.

You will be part of the International Expansion team which is responsible for launching H&W's brands across the world. This cross functional team has end to end responsibility for international expansion of the brands in a fast-paced environment. If you are excited about the prospect of bringing disruptive brands across the world this role is for you.

The Global QMS Specialist for International Expansion will be responsible to develop and deploy quality processes, guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the key processes during global international expansion projects and thereafter to maintain business as usual scenarios.

The role act as the key Global Quality functional partner who needs to have close working collaboration across Brand/ Marketing, Sales, R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory and Procurement teams to understand the overlaps of quality processes and thereafter develop the quality processes/ guidelines/ SOPs which are cross functionally aligned.

Cross functional team members need to be provided with the training on the developed process.

The role will have direct governance Quality KPIs such as Management Review of Quality for international expansion, change management governance in the regions, tracking of the performance indicators for regions.

This role will have working scope to cover across the Globe, which currently includes China, the United Kingdom/ Europe, Canada, Australia, LATAM, APAC, India.

The regions or countries shall increase as global footprint of H&W increases.


RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development & deployment of quality systems for Global/ International H&W, with close partnership with key stakeholders likes of Brand/ Marketing, Sales, R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory and Procurement teams; for effectively managing global expansion projects (innovation/ renovation) and thereafter quality processes for businessasusual mode (Gotomarket and related processes)
• Develop QMS/ SOPs to ensure mandatory minimum Quality processes are embedded in the system.
• Impart training to cross functional global teams for the developed QMS processes/ SOPs.
• Develop and deploy governance model for international quality.
• Drive governance of the Global KPIs likes of Management Review of Quality for international expansion, change management governance in the regions, tracking of the performance indicators for regions.
• Provide support to the regional teams in developing the local QMS processes / SOPs.
• Represent Quality function on appropriate forums.
• Maintains an open channel for communication between various stakeholders.

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day.

Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry's, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet.

That's why our purpose is 'to make sustainable living commonplace.


What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares.

You'll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you.

We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities.

We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better busin