UniOps Strategy, Portfolio & Change Manager - NU PTAB

Unilever is currently hiring for UniOps Strategy, Portfolio & Change Manager - NU PTAB

Reports to:BU Lead – NU PTAB & Focus Market Lead Pakistan

Scope: NU PTAB

Location:Turkey

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming our business on the foundations of Digital and AI? As the BU Strategy, Portfolio & Change Lead, you'll be at the forefront of driving innovation, optimizing costs, and ensuring seamless alignment between UniOps and BG-BU objectives. This role is your chance to make a significant impact and lead us into the future!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Strategic Visionary: You'll develop and implement strategic roadmaps that translate BG strategy into actionable plans, presenting opportunities and impacts to our leadership teams.
• Master of Performance: Formulate clear vision and strategy to drive digital capabilities, ensuring they align with BG/BU priorities and goals.
• Program Champion: Own the BU roadmap, track impact, and provide visibility on costs, benefits, and timelines. You'll be the go-to source for value realization with UniOps tools.
• Risk Navigator: Identify and escalate risks related to digital initiatives, ensuring smooth sailing for our projects.
• Governance Guru: Support KPI definition for digital transformation projects, track adoption, and ensure prioritization decisions are made effectively.
• Continuous Innovator: Advocate for user-centric design, facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT), and drive superior experiences to deliver value realization.
• Adoption Advocate: Ensure UniOps products are embraced by end users, monitoring and tracking adoption metrics.
• Change Maestro: Oversee training strategies, gather feedback, and continuously iterate to optimize training effectiveness and adoption.

WHO CAN APPLY:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, Engineering, Information Systems, Strategy, Digital Transformation, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in strategy development, program or change management, or digital transformation, ideally within a multinational or matrixed organization.
• A background in FMCG, consulting, technology, or shared services is a strong plus.
• Experience in managing or leading complex transformation programs, digital product adoption, or portfolio management.
• Previous exposure to stakeholder engagement, governance frameworks, and user adoption strategies.

SKILLS

• Digital Acumen – familiarity with digital technologies and technology trends
• Business acumen - working across functions ​
• Complex programme or product leadership experience,
• Strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder management skills​
• Strategic Thinking ​
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills​
• Change Management experience

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Unilever Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Brings the voice of the consumer into everything we do, always.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates opportunities for profitable growth through the core and beyond.

• Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.  

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.