Concept Designer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Unilever

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Job Title:
Concept Designer


Location:
Unilever R&D - Leeds (hybrid)


JOB PURPOSE


Personal Care is a €15bn business globally and is the home of outstanding brands that deliver personal hygiene, self-care, and confidence to billions of people.

We hold some of Unilever's strongest market positions. We aim for market-beating growth supported by increased investment on the core brands, funded via gross margin recovery.


Where we will play**:
We focus on our core categories and top brands to win with our key channels and top customers


How we will win:
(1) We Make it Premium - leading category value growth via core innovation delivering Holistic Product Superiority. (2) We Make it Profitable - unlocking structural margin challenges via premiumisation & technology & radical simplification. (3) We Make it Positive - leveraging our scale and brands for impact, delivering on our commitments for people and for planet. (4) We Make it Personal - leadership through service, humility, and care for all our stakeholders.


The Personal Care Design Team are a group of ambitious and visionary design leaders residing in our R&D organisation responsible for transforming the creative culture of Personal Care projects and people by promoting and implementing best practices in creative problem-solving processes, tools, and techniques.


The main purpose of your role as a Concept Designer will be to demonstrate the power of design in early project stages.

Your job is the right integration of methods and insights from the beginning to turn concepts into design opportunities with great value for both our consumers and our brands.

The goal is to deliver holistic experiences that help showcase internal capabilities in physical, digital, brand and service design.

The Concept Designer also drives experience as a key unlocking factor for future innovation at a project level.

They will positively influence project partners by providing guidance on how an experience-based approach can help elevate our PC brands and their priority projects to measure superiorly.


By conducting design research and connecting with other disciplines and external partners, you will give identity and purpose to projects.

To express insights and design opportunities compelling and accurately, you should be able to use a broad range of storytelling and prototyping methods.

You will closely collaborate with brand & R&D teams in developing of convincing value propositions by design.

Over time, you will therefore gain significant responsibility for the impact of design in front-end innovation as well as the overall representation of the design team as a strategic and executional partner.


WHY JOIN PERSONAL CARE DESIGN


Joining Personal Care Design means working within a dedicated and ambitious design team on the development of high impact brand innovation.

Unilever offers an agile and open-minded environment with strong and passionate thinkers and doers who are constantly seeking to improve purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth.


As a job holder in Personal Care Design you will have the chance to collaborate with and guide multi-disciplinary teams and external partners in order to create value and meet consumer needs with convincing and meaningful Design solutions.

Within Personal Care Design you will have the chance to grow further by various training initiatives both inside and outside design.


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Utilise design thinking tools and methodologies to lead teams through the Explore phase of projects
  • Manage individual Experience Design projects, cocreate project timelines, and report progress to the Experience Design Lead
  • Collaborate with strategic agencies to deliver transformational design concepts beyond just packaging
  • Engage with brand leaders to develop product and service experiences that present new value to the business
  • Drive design consistency across all touchpoints by aligning with other functions and integrating them in the design process
  • Collaborate with Consumer Insight function and crossfunctional teams to ensure Experience Design and prototypes deliver against key experience metrics, meet consumer requirements and business demands
  • Embody early prototyping as a tool to create new opportunities and solve existing challenges, not only within the design team
  • Shape creative and conceptual frameworks for design projects to emphasize the value of design
  • Master trends & insights collection in order to identify opportunities and set direction
  • Develop experience prototypes and scenario roadmaps to qualify design opportunities
  • Showcase opportunities with advanced visualization and communication tools
  • Where required, coauthor and facilitate workshops using design thinking techniques to help explore strategy and project futures
  • Where required, research, pilot, and implement new capabilities (both physical & digital) within our design ecosystem to build upon any sk
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