Unilever Looking for IT Business Partner- Innovation Management at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Job Title: IT Business Partner- Innovation Management

Location: Bangalore

ABOUT UNILEVER:
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

At HUL, we believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, caste, disability or marital status can bring their purpose to life. So apply to us, to unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make the world a better place. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you!

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
The Consumer Experience team’s mission is to help innovation and build the world’s most competitive (relevant, unmissable and inclusive) & impactful brand experience digitally. Our role is to bring our incredible brands to life across the entire consumer journey, enriching experiences from all with data in a trusted and relevant way and making our products easy to purchase, consume and recycle. We believe that the best performing companies put consumers & experiences at the heart of everything they do and technology is the key enabler of brand and retail experience.

This role focusses on Unilever’s ambition of delivering world class product innovations to our 2bn consumers across the globe. We are looking for a passionate, purpose driven technology Product Owner, who is keen to drive the right technology enablement to support Unilever’s product innovations. This role will be a critical enabler to leading and delivering this continued ambition.

The role is responsible for the end-to-end management and delivery of Unilever’s Innovation Management Systems, InnoFLEX. You will be working very closely with the CDCO Innovation Product team and other parts of UniOps, especially our partners in D&A and our 3rd party technology partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The key job responsibilities are:
Influence & Delivery of the end to end InnoFLEX platform, driving the Power of One, focus of Five mindset across the organisation.

Digital Platform maintenance (Continuous improvements, application development and management) for InnoFLEX.

Stakeholder management across CDCO, Global Marketing Services, Finance Business Partners, Portfolio Management, and Information Security teams

Supporting the IT strategy & roadmap design for digital platform applications working very closely with the Enterprise Architecture Teams

Managing the project and run budgets/commercials/IT contracts

Sustain and Develop partner relationships & teams

Managing our 3rd party strategic technology delivery partners and SaaS vendors.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experience in IT Product Ownership/IT business partnering, business process analysis, design, and solution delivery.

Experience in at least one end-to-end large-scale project implementations.

Attention to detail, Self-starter, problem-solving attitude, being accountable.

Excellent inter-personal and communicative skills, willing to support the teams at a high level of excellence.

Proven experience of Delivery model in Agile, scrum and Squad models involving both country business team and vendor partners.

Experience of work in teams across multiple locations.

Passion for delivering outcomes and leading teams using agile ways of working.

Take accountability, be self-driven to use their own inner drive to work hard and excel.

Ability to negotiate and influence strategies and outcomes with senior business stakeholders.

Excellent communication, influencing, negotiating, mentoring & team building skills.

Good skills in persuading disparate audiences at all levels in the organization.

Demonstrate Pioneering mindset, being curious and courageous to Innovate & Experiment.