PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc Recruitment 2023(11 Positions) (infoguidenigeria.com)

Knowledge / Qualifications – Technical / Professional Experience
Knowledge Area (Examples Below):

R&D/Innovation Program and Organizational/Team Leadership:

• 10 + years experience in designing and delivering consumer delighting products and/or Packs to market in relevant FMCG category (eg. Beauty/Personal Care, Consumer Health, Food & Beverages).  Ideally including experience of
  • Simultaneously managing a portfolio of multiple brands and their differing consumer targets.
  • Both internally and externally developed products/packs.
  • Creating propositions across different price tiers.
  • Different innovation/project types from those with potential for disruption to cost optimisation (and everything in between)
• Leadership of a team of at least 5 R&D’ers.

• Simultaneously managing a portfolio of multiple brands and their differing consumer targets.
• Both internally and externally developed products/packs.
• Creating propositions across different price tiers.
• Different innovation/project types from those with potential for disruption to cost optimisation (and everything in between)

Outstanding People and Organizational Development:

• Track record of identifying and realizing the potential of individuals and teams working in Innovation/R&D/Technical domains.
• Experience of designing and evolving innovation organizations and capabilities to support the changing needs of a business.
• Recognized builder of productive, successful and happy teams and experienced in leading them through change.

Driving business impact and Influence of R&D:

• Track record of forging strong and productive partnerships with multifunctional counterparts especially Marking and Sales/Commercial and leveraging these relationships to drive value from R&D and overall influence on the direction of the business.
• Ability to translate technical complexity and highly scientific concepts into compelling communication for a variety of audiences (internal and external) and as a result generate excitement and buy in to R&D possibilities (technologies, products, packs, materials, consumer opportunity spaces etc. etc.)
• Significant experience in appropriately dimensionalizing levels of technical risk to contribute to multifunctional decision making.

Innovation Strategy Development & Ambidextrous Leadership:

• Demonstrated ability to connect consumer and business needs to technology possibilities across a portfolio of projects, simultaneously balancing both short and long term priorities/horizons.
• Experience of defining consumer/business relevant innovation ‘hunting grounds’/opportunity spaces and using this thinking to establish new development projects and feed a funnel of innovation/New Product/Pack Development.

Consumer Insight:

• Experience in turning consumer data into insight and leveraging this and community/human/consumer design to develop clearly differentiated product and/or packaging experiences.
• Ability to translate consumer needs & dreams into tangible technical product/pack design elements.
• Quantitative and Qualitative research design and analysis experience would be a bonus.

Technical Expertise / Experience:

• Ability to make unobvious technical connections – demonstrated through eg. Identifying a technology from another category and tailoring to a specific consumer need.
• Claims Support – Demonstrated ability to develop compelling and differentiated claims which capture both the hearts and minds of consumers and differentiate vs. competition.  Experience of developing ‘right sized’ technical claims support strategies which appropriately balance risk vs. resource.
• Ideally:
  • Experience in developing opportunities for sustainable product/pack design.
  • Experience in using technical modelling to increase productivity, reduce program timings and quantify/reduce risk.
  • Knowledge, experience and connections into external innovation ecosystems in relevant technology spaces (eg. Start ups, RM/Packaging Suppliers, Universities, Research Institutes etc. etc.)

• Experience in developing opportunities for sustainable product/pack design.
• Experience in using technical modelling to increase productivity, reduce program timings and quantify/reduce risk.
• Knowledge, experience and connections into external innovation ecosystems in relevant technology spaces (eg. Start ups, RM/Packaging Suppliers, Universities, Research Institutes etc. etc.)

Budgets:

• Successful governance of budgets >£200,000

Values and Behaviours: