Group Safety Health Environment Digital and Data – Global Digital Product Owner

Unilever; Kingston upon Thames; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Global Digital Product Owner focused on Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) initiatives. You will leverage your expertise in data and project management to enhance environmental performance through innovative digital solutions. This role promises diverse challenges, collaboration with global teams, and the chance to make a significant impact. The position offers a supportive environment with flexible working options and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Subsidised gym membership

Discounted staff shop

Shares in the company

Qualifications

• MSc in data science, finance, GHG accounting, or engineering required.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to influence through peers and excellent critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate SHE strategy into digital environmental priorities.
• Manage project governance and deliver the environmental reporting tool.
• Engage with stakeholders for effective change management.

Skills

Attention to detail

Project management skills

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Customer focus

Communication skills

Education

MSc in data science, finance, or engineering

Tools

Excel

Power Point

Job description

Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job Title: Group Safety Health Environment Digital and Data – Global Digital Product Owner

Business Function: Safety Health Environment

Location: 100VE , Kingston Head Office , Portsunlight

JOB PURPOSE

Are you passionate about SHE? Do you believe that digital solutions will improve Safety Environmental Performance of the future? Do you love data and information and have a drive to deliver new business value? Would you relish the opportunity to work at a global level, whilst joining up regions, countries and sites to implement global processes?

Then look no further… This role gives you the opportunity to set the agenda for connecting SHE processes, data and digital systems. Driving value through the delivery of business functional requirements via a well-designed roadmap of opportunities.

In this role you will be the business subject matter expert defining the business requirements and change management to implement key IT digital capabilities and improvements.

Working in the SHE(Safety Health and Environment) Capabilities team you will be joining a small growing community of SHE digital experts delivering the next generation of SHE capabilities to support the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Translate SHE strategy and stakeholders’ environmental performance and functional needs to develop a clear vision for future environmental products. Define and drive the business digital environmental priorities. Lead improvement projects to upgrade the capabilities and drive efficiency, accuracy, and visibility of the environmental data.

Lead improvement projects to upgrade the capabilities and drive efficiency, accuracy, and visibility of environmental performance and reporting data.

In this role you will have a specific area of focus with the SHE Digital project and expertise requirements split across the roles.

This role is specifically working on the environmental digital agenda and will be responsible for managing a project from a business/product owner perspective to replace our existing environmental reporting tool that is used by more than 500 sites to enter environmental metrics for internal and external reporting and performance tracking.

Working with the Environmental reporting team, environmental capabilities team, regional super users and the IT organization, you will drive the delivery of the product to ensure requirements are fully built out and delivered.

Tasks will include

Programme/Project Management

• Manage a User Network
• Manage and engage the Subject Matter Expertise community
• Ensure project governance is in place and operating
• Implement new environmental reporting tool throughout the organization
• Develop and track delivery of the benefits case
• Escalate issues

Design solutions for business needs

• Act as business requirements/Product Owner
• Gather and develop business requirements and user stories, taking a holistic end to end view of requirements.
• Establish business resources for testing activities and the testing plan
• Establish implementation and roll-out plan

Stakeholder engagement & Change Management plan

• Oversee the stakeholder engagement and change plan
• Actively engage the user network and broader stakeholder community
• Develop and roll-out training materials

Professional Skills:

ESSENTIAL

• Education/background MSc data science, finance, ghg accounting, engineering
• Environment Professional
• Business Process Expert
• Attention to detail and a high standard of work
• Project management skills / Continuous Improvement mindset
• Benefits case definition
• Keeps the ‘bigger picture’ in mind while close to the detail
• Problem solving and strategic thinking
• Stakeholder and change management
• Strong autonomous decision maker
• Customer focussed
• Highly developed communication skills - Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to leadership
• Influence virtually across diverse geographies and functions.
• Design and deliver training

Experience Required:

• Leading project teams

• Experience of managing processes and systems as a business owner / product owner (or acting as a senior business analyst on requirements definition)– working closely with IT to deliver.

• Business lead in delivery on SHE process changes at sites
• Experience of delivery using the Agile methodology, working DevOps and managing Scrums
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills
• High proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point
• Ability to influence and deliver through peers effectively
• At least 2 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
• Effective collaboration skills and experience with navigating large organizations and cross-functional teams.
• Experience driving continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of the external market for SHE tools.

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 business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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