Job Description: Temporary D365 ERP Operations Product Owner

WHO ARE WE?

We are the Global Health & Wellbeing (H&W) team at Unilever. We are a start-up (less than 3 years old), focused on one of Unilever’s largest growth opportunities – the €140bn Health & Wellbeing space defined by Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements (VMS).

We work in an agile and entrepreneurial way, collaboratively within the team and with our Unilever colleagues around the world. We work in a project-based networked way where everyone needs to be able to take a step back and think strategically as well as rolling up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, to be entrepreneurial and experiment as well as bringing in the best of Unilever and work the structures of a large company, to take charge and lead as well as follow and support others.

OUR BUSINESS

Unilever’s Health & Wellbeing Group holds the company’s functional nutrition brands and the portfolio of brands that includes Equilibra (Italy) and US acquired brands Olly, Liquid IV, SmartyPants, Welly, Onnit and most recently, Nutrafol. Each brand is completely unique and focused on giving consumers superior experiences within their respective spaces and target segments. We are committed to continue grow this strategic business for Unilever through a series of acquisitions and international expansion of acquired brands through Unilever’s scale and network in the markets.

Recently we announced the launch of 5 business verticals to better organize our business, these are: International, Beauty from within (Nutrafol), Functional Hydration (Liquid IV), First Aid (Welly) and finally VMS (Olly, Onnit and SmartyPants). This role entails product ownership of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP system in the newly established VMS business vertical.

CREATING A STRING OF PEARLS

In May 2021 Unilever announced that Health & Wellbeing would be organized as an integrated Global Business Unit (GBU) bringing together the acquired operating companies, category strategy focused on M&A, international expansion, and entering new and adjacent categories, as well as platform functions such as HR, Legal, R&D, Regulatory, Tech, and Finance. This organization is led by EVP Health & Wellbeing with a dedicated leadership team. Following the string of pearls approach, the GBU LT will establish a balanced operating model that preserves the unique cultures of each business, while gluing together and scaling capabilities.

A transformation organization commenced as a PMO in Q3 2021 with the objective to develop and deliver plans for a collaborative operating model primarily focused on the 4 pivots that create the strong string of pearls including Business Operations, E-Commerce and Digital, Supply Chain, and Go To Market.

TECHNOLOGY PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE

The H&W tech team has designed a bespoke technology backbone for our operating companies. The backbone will build resilience to protect our value and enable scaling of their operations to $1Bn businesses. The platform is fit for purpose for smaller, growing businesses, faster and easier to implement and operate. The backbone includes the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, Kinaxis supply and demand planning tool, M365 collaboration stack, Trade promotion planning, MDM, reporting suite and a data lake. The backbone is underpinned by new efficient and mature business processes from which the new tech sits.

THE ROLE: TEMPORARY D365 ERP OPERATIONS PRODUCT OWNER

We’re looking for a Temporary D365 ERP Operations Product Owner to support the implementation and optimization of Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP across our Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements (VMS) business vertical, which includes brands like OLLY, SmartyPants, and Onnit.

This role will partner with cross-functional teams and external partners to lead ERP strategy, roadmap development, sprint planning, and deployment. As part of Unilever’s Health & Wellbeing Group, this role plays a critical part.