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Unilever Fragrance House Global Program & Operations Director

Port Sunlight Research Lab💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead global program delivery, lab infrastructure strategy, and hub network design for Unilever's Fragrance House to transform fragrance creation and deployment across Personal Care, Beauty, and Home Care businesses.

Role type

Senior IC Global Program & Operations Director

Builds

Global fragrance creation hubs, laboratory infrastructure, and end-to-end program execution systems

Domain

Consumer Goods / Beauty & Personal Care / Fragrance R&D

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Global operating model design, large-scale program management, infrastructure strategy, fragrance facility operations, scalable governance frameworks, strategic commercial judgement, data-driven decision-making

Preferred skills

Experience in fragrance/flavours/ingredients, consumer goods innovation, R&D operations, specialist laboratory environments

Technologies

AI capabilities, digital lab systems

Responsibilities

Translate business group priorities into multi-year program agendas, set long-term strategy for global laboratory facilities, define future global hub footprint and lead new hub design/launch, manage global ingredients palette for resilience and cost-effectiveness, build and develop a globally distributed Programme & Operations organisation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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