7 Innovation jobs in Egypt

Company Profile:
At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

We produce world-leading brands including Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Surf.

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts.

Job Scope:
You will be the Finance partner for Innovations in Arabia. Supporting and working with the marketeers, finance business partners on the innovation and renovation projects and be responsible for the monthly post launch performance tracker

You will be able to identify risks and opportunities within the projects to drive improvements.

Roles & Responsibilities- Responsible for innovation and renovation business case creation- Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities to improve the projects- Review and confirm the assumptions- Challenge the project leads to make sure they are considering the correct assumptions in terms of volume price cost and impact on our existing portfolio while making sure this project will bring incremental impact to the business- Be the key contact for support related to innovations and renovation projects- Launch monthly post launch performance tracker- Responsible for business cases global submission to Innoflex- Responsible for Collecting projects SKUs from the projects leads- Coordinate with local finance business partners to validate the project assumptions and align on the upcoming projects- Monitor and support in enhancing the new automatic tool of business case creation and be the contact person between the project leads and support team to solve any issues and ensure the correct WOW- Build partnership and maintain strong relationships with BG finance and marketeers

Job key requirements and qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance / Accounting- 4-6 Years of Experience in business partnering preferably in FMCG industry- Experience of working with key information systems and computer literacy (incl. Excel, Power BI, and SAP)- Excellent communication skills - Impactful and flexible communicating and influencing- Highly analytical without losing sight of the bigger picture- Strong business acumen- Passion for high performance and growth

**Company Profile**:
At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of the world's most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

We produce world-leading brands including Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann's and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry's, The Dollar Shave Club and Surf.

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you're having in the work you do - every small thing counts.

**Job Scope**:
You will be the Finance partner for Innovations in Arabia. Supporting and working with the marketeers, finance business partners on the innovation and renovation projects and be responsible for the monthly post launch performance tracker

You will be able to identify risks and opportunities within the projects to drive improvements.

**Roles & Responsibilities**
- Responsible for innovation and renovation business case creation
- Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities to improve the projects
- Review and confirm the assumptions
- Challenge the project leads to make sure they are considering the correct assumptions in terms of volume price cost and impact on our existing portfolio while making sure this project will bring incremental impact to the business
- Be the key contact for support related to innovations and renovation projects
- Launch monthly post launch performance tracker
- Responsible for business cases global submission to Innoflex
- Responsible for Collecting projects SKUs from the projects leads
- Coordinate with local finance business partners to validate the project assumptions and align on the upcoming projects
- Monitor and support in enhancing the new automatic tool of business case creation and be the contact person between the project leads and support team to solve any issues and ensure the correct WOW
- Build partnership and maintain strong relationships with BG finance and marketeers

**Job key requirements and qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in finance / Accounting
- 4-6 Years of Experience in business partnering preferably in FMCG industry
- Experience of working with key information systems and computer literacy (incl. Excel, Power BI, and SAP)
- Excellent communication skills - Impactful and flexible communicating and influencing
- Highly analytical without losing sight of the bigger picture
- Strong business acumen
- Passion for high performance and growth

Buy Box Experts (BBE) is a Spreetail Agency, our mission at BBE is to be premier Amazon strategists by successfully evolving and adapting to the ever-changing environment that is Amazon and e-commerce. Our strategic growth mindset and holistic approach encourage forward-thinking and provide the greatest potential for success for our Brand Partners.

We are looking for a Director of Product Development to join our team and tackle fun, challenging problems to better our customers. As the Director of Product Development, you will work with business stakeholders to understand their most pressing needs and create a product strategy accordingly. This role will provide the opportunity to drive automation, operational
- efficiency, and leverage data to drive insights to support our business, while delighting our customers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Execute on the product strategy/roadmap to support our agency services teams and operations, while leading a team of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers.
- Work with the scrum team/delivery managers to plan sprints throughout the quarter to ensure that all features are delivered by their respective deadlines.
- Identify relevant data sources and propose ways to leverage them to come up with insights (i.e. stay up to date on all new data offerings made available by Amazon).
- Reduce time company employees spend on manual tasks by creating automation Improve company access to data COGS and Expenses (do processes designed help us reduce costs and improve efficiencies)
- Reduce the number of process failures where people circumvent the system (by designing flexible systems that can adapt to multiple situations and providing

**Qualifications**:

- 6+ years of experience working in product management coupled with 2-5 years of experience in creating software platforms that work with Amazon APIs and other systems.
- Experience leading teams of 10+ people with a successful track record in achieving goals and KPIs.
- Understanding of data architecture and basic understanding of how the data flows across the system (data warehouse, database, APIs, etc.)
- Strong leadership and planning skills with the ability to effectively design and execute on a vision.
- Experience managing Product Managers in an Agile development organization.

**What You Need**:

- Desktop/Laptop system requirements:4th generation or higher, at least Intel i3 or equivalent processor; at least 4GB RAM; Windows 10 and above or MAC OSX operating system
- A strong and stable internet connection (A DSL, cable, or fiber wired internet service with at least 50 Mbps plan or higher for primary connection)
- PC Headset (With noise-canceling feature is preferred but not required)
- A high-definition (HD) external or integrated webcam with at least 720p resolution

**ABOUT BUY BOX EXPERTS**
- Buy Box Experts, a Spreetail Agency, is a premier Amazon marketing agency, supporting brand executives as they seek to CONTROL and GROW their Amazon channel businesses (in the US and internationally).

We help our brand clients develop channel management strategies that reduce price erosion issues, and align marketing efforts with the brand's overall brand vision. We provide full platform account management (1P retail, 3P marketplace and hybrid) incorporating inventory management, listing optimization, advertising campaign management (including AMS, DSP), and customer service. We also operate traffic-building campaigns external to Amazon, designed to drive high-converting traffic to Amazon. We conduct Amazon channel due diligence for private equity and investors looking to acquire brands that depend heavily on Amazon as a sales channel.

Our leadership team is very focused on building a company culture focused on being inclusive, encouraging open discussion of issues, and developing the team through a growth-based mindset. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Overview:

- The role will lead the technical aspects and implementation of medium to high complexity R&D enabled productivity and sustainability projects for the Non PC Platform.
- Lead product development of extruded, baked & pellet products by maintaining existing products specifications, developing new products from concept to launch, include LTOs, refresh, select reframe projects to develop winning consumer propositions that drive sustainable business growth.
- Partner with R&D global platform and functions to find productivity opportunities.
- Actively participate in marketing research programs including focus groups and other consumer research formats.
- Develop, plan, conduct, and coordinate product development initiatives to use experimental design and data interpretation tools to make technically sound recommendations to business.
- Engage with Egypt Foods BU GP & SC to support and manage technical aspects of productivity agendas.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leverage expertise inside and outside of the organisation to deliver product and process development and innovation.
- Develop, plan, conduct, and coordinate product development initiatives to use experimental design and data interpretation tools to make technically sound recommendations to business.
- Engage with Egypt Foods BU GP & SC to support and manage technical aspects of productivity agendas of extrusion, pellet & baked snacks.
- Develop product against consumer and business KPIs by leveraging available resources including R&D Laboratory tools, bench top, factory equipment, pilot plants, supplier’s technical assets.
- Coordinate samples requirements with manufacturing plants, global R&D function etc. for NPD, internal screening, bench taste, sensory test, consumer test, shelf life stability, sales samples, scale-up trials, and other needs.
- Develop & review FC, business P&L and finalize product and ingredient specifications with PQP guardrails.
- Lead Accolade and Technical Stage Gate and related work for his/her project and ensure timely completion of all TSG stages and its deliverables.
- Develop project briefs/Global Innovation Briefs (GIB) and seek R&D and other cross functional alignment (especially Marketing and Supply Chain).
- Lead exploration of new ingredients, formulation and process technologies and leverage expertise inside and outside the organization to deliver new product and process development.
- Represent R&D on multi-functional business teams and Influence others through strong communication & interpersonal skills.
- Develop project briefs/Global Innovation Briefs (GIB) and seek R&D and other cross functional alignment (especially Marketing and Supply Chain).
- Lead exploration of new ingredients, formulation and process technologies and leverage expertise inside and outside the organization to deliver new product and process development.
- To plan, organise and run raw material qualification programmes.
- Drive global knowledge growth and thought leadership in emerging process technologies and imbed cross functionally.
- Drive CAST implementation through leadership of training programmes.
- Work closely with Regulatory to ensure legal compliance and compliance to WwP

Qualifications:

- Food Science or Engineering related discipline.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate and negotiate effectively across all levels and all functions of the organisation.
- Good presentation skills.
- Strong analytical skills - ability to interpret complex data and distill into useful and actionable information.
- Ability to explain complex technical issues / solutions to a non-technical audience.
- Strives for high standards, seeks innovative solutions, drives continuous improvement of products, processes or methods and demonstrates a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
- Passion for creativity and innovation within a commercially driven environment.
- Cultural sensitivity / flexibility in responding to diverse teams and environments.
- Self-starter and motivator.

**Job Description**
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**
**Business Unit Summary**
Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as Oreo , belVita , LU and Ritz biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk , Green & Blacks , Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese; and Maynards Bassetts , Trebor and Trident gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That's who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking.**
Working as part of a cross-functional team you lead the RDQ activities for Chocolate activities required to complete new product development and maintain portfolios and/or productivity projects keeping in mind the goal to deliver the desired consumer experience.
**How you will contribute**
You will work independently to plan, lead and coordinate technical projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements You will effectively communicate status and risks and plan, lead and coordinate pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In addition, you will plan, lead and coordinate development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation. etc.). To provide direction for product development, you will use digital simulation models to obtain, understand and interpret consumer insights and commercial information. In this role, you will create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications and be responsible for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions made from analysis and interpretation of results.
**What you will bring**
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
+ Leading strategic projects and influencing cross-functional teams
+ Handling multiple priorities
+ Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
+ Applying technical curiosity and understanding to interpret and analyze data
+ Effectively influencing senior-level and cross-functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical report conclusions
+ Coaching and mentoring others
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
+ Lead multiple strategic projects in MENAP with the proper validation protocol, overseeing project governance, Budget and timeline
+ Risk Management: proactively identifying and mitigating potential risks
+ Stakeholder management: Building and maintaining relationship internally and externally, while communicating effectively with various project stakeholders.
+ Building future proof innovation pipeline in line with commercial strategic plan and growth ambition
+ Applies advanced technical knowledge of impact of formulation, process changes and/or interactions on product characteristics and consumer impact in project work. Provides guidance to others.
+ Lead and coordinate factory trials, commissioning & validation in collaboration with Quality & MSC teams.
+ Provide regular progress updates against agreed deliverables & objectives and timely communication.
+ Build a global Network with the R&D community across chocolate platforms & ensure full knowledge transfer & global practices implementation.
**Education / Certifications:**
Bachelor's degree in science or chemical/mechanical/industrial engineering,
Masters degree is a plus.
**Job specific requirements:**
+ Min of 6 years of relevant experience
+ Strong project management skills and organizational abilities
+ Experience in managing complex projects
+ Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
+ Familiar with business processes and technology solutions
+ Flexibility & Agility: ability to cope with fast changing environment
+ Problem solving: Utilizing analytical and conceptual skills to solve problems
+ Language: English, high proficient in both spoken and written **Work schedule:** Full Time
No Relocation support available
**Business Unit Summary**
**Mondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy.**
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
**Job Type**
Regular
Product development
Science & Engineering
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands - both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum
Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.
Join us and Make It An Opportunity!
Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact for assistance.