Job title: Flavour Manager - Oral Care
Location: Mumbai
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We are looking to hire a Flavour Manager in our Oral Care team based in Mumbai:
Business Overview
The Oral Care category in India is a 1500 Cr INR business for HUL and growing at a health rate over the last few years with the brands Closeup and Pepsodent. The category represents a huge growth opportunity for HUL to rapidly grow share in South Asia through delivering an ambitious innovation programme. Oral Care Category is a fast growing, highly profitable category with a strong ambition for driving superior benefits and sensorials to the consumers.
Flavour is the number one driver of consumer liking in oral care for superior sensorial experience and cues efficacy for consumers. Our flavour team is at the heart of product design and work very closely with flavour houses to deliver superior consumer experiences.
This is a great opportunity for working with enthusiastic people who want to create products which consumers will love to experience again and again. Products which not only keeps consumer needs in focus but also keep the planet happy.
Position Summary
We’re looking for a flavour manager who will lead the flavour program for Oral Care India through innovation/renovation/capability projects in multifunctional teams to deliver against the superiority, sustainability and savings targets of the HUL Oral category.
Main Purpose of the job
Ensure we delight our consumers with the sensorial product experience that is inline with brand key and product promise.
Input broader flavour thinking to x-functional team, such as claims opportunities, cost opportunities and partnering solutions
Identify new opportunities to deliver holistic superiority looking at all elements of the product mix and defining where flavour and flavour technologies can play an impactful role
Role Accountabilities and Job requirement:
Lead the flavour development agenda for Oral care India by keenly looking at the chasis and the compatibility of different flav ingredients to arrive at the right sensorial experience of the toothpaste, and similar OC formats.
Work with the formulation teams and the Flavour Houses to develop the right flavour in collaboration to Deliver the brief. He/She will be the single point of contact between the flav houses, the program team and brand team to conclude the final flavour.
Flavour assessment for quality purpose (commercial product and storage stability) and also during the development stage of the project to choose the right product form sensorial requirement in the brief.
Guide the Flavour houses and also the marketing and project team by understanding the consumer preferences and feedback to iterate and arrive at the right profile for the flavour to ensure consumer satisfaction. She/He should have the working knowledge of role of individual flavour ingredients that can heighten the experience and fit the brief.
Should be able to write clear briefs, work with flavour houses and global and SERS team for getting necessary approvals for compliance ( regulatory and safety).
The person will need to drive closures on decision and work with X-functional teams for networks and commercialisation.
The person should be able to develop suppliers for any ingredients and contribute to the savings agenda for the category.
Develop and execute the Flavour Strategy, encompassing both technical and consumer insights and delivering key category superiority and 5s initiatives.
The person should have deep expertise in assessment of the flavours to provide judgement and translate the consumer venatims to insights and then arrive at the best suited mix for the project.
Adapt, modify, and improve existing flavour approaches to provide quick solutions for existing flav improvements. To be able to also taste and judge the competition and provide insights on changes.
Good analytical knowledge for carrying out / interpreting the flavour analysis to arrive at the breakdown of components and formulation construct of flavours,
Critical Competencies
Good stakeholder management skills both internal and external good negotiation and influencing skills
Experience in leading a team with multiple priority areas under tight time pressures
Experience beyond flavours - ideally within consumer insights and/or sensory is great to have.
A strong collaborator, team worker, experience at working in India flavour development/assessment and sensory will be great to have.
Demonstrated ability to be flexible, manage ambiguity, take risks, take on various tasks and passionate to deliver the project goals.
Ability to apply business mindset understanding and prioritising the impact of flavour development and partnering decisions on consumers, cost, and environment.
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