IFP Product Developer

IFP Product Developer

Job Description

IFP Product Developer

Your Job

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

This is a new and exciting role that is being created in the IFP Innovation Product Development team.

The IFP R&D Product Developer will lead pioneering innovations for tissue products across our business to consumer and business to business categories at a global level.

The breath of this role will be a one of a kind compared to other FMCG R&D roles – with the unique opportunity of being responsible for the entire end to end product development, including prototyping, process development, qualifications, claims and demos.

In this role you will be part of a unique transformation, where we take our brands beyond traditional conventions to super serve consumers, not only with products with winning performance but also with superior value that deliver BETTER CARE FOR A BETTER WORLD.

The ideal candidate is a serial innovator who has a strong track record of developing and commercialising winning innovations, an entrepreneurial mindset together with outstanding technical problem solve and ability to build strong and effective partnerships within the R&D organisation and the broader multi-functional team.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

Innovation Design & Development:


* Be the expert for your product area on the ideal product for consumers and customers and your products performance versus competition


* Be a key player in driving forward our ambitious sustainability agenda


* Influencing & partnering with multi-functional teams to develop & deliver programs/projects that are consistent with our strategies and leverage our competitive & consumer understanding to deliver against local, business unit needs

Project Leadership:


* Working as part of multi-functional team to provide R&D leadership on your assigned innovation/renovation projects: leading design and development phases of the project to ensure consumer & technical qualification is completed, and ultimately deliver product proposition that meets key criteria (performance, compliance, cost, timings)


* In this role you will also lead claims development and substantiation, benefit visualisation and demos to support innovation/renovation programs and commercial renovation


* Ensuring seamless handover to LCM and mill teams to ensure an un-interrupted transfer of R&D project ownership through to launch, providing on-going consultation on any in-market follow-ups & support.

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