• Overall responsibilities of independently handling the outsourced plant operations
• Computing the performance data across plant and benchmarking the best in class
• Coordinating with R&D team, new product concept, developing the process and helping to implementing new launches.
• Implementation of Quality systems e.g. HACCP, BRC Standards, HH pillar. Take lead in implementation of requirements of these systems.
• To work towards continuous improvement of product quality, food safety and plant/personal hygiene. Regular monitoring of process wastage and work to reduce the same to deliver raw material and packing material utilization above set standards
• Monitor plant downtime and work to reduce the same by focus on manpower availability, spares availability, preventive maintenance, etc.
• Responsible for innovation in formulation and packing and supporting R&D during trails.
• Development and training of people on the shop floor, manage 3 shift executives, one each in every shift.
• Regular review of plant performance, make action plans for continuous improvement of product quality, productivity, food safety, operating cost and coordinate with third party for implementation of these action plans.
• Regular interaction with raw material, packing material suppliers for timely feedback on supply/quality issues and resolve the same.
• Ensuring products are produced as per compliance with systems implementation like TPM
• Responsible for interacting with category co
A typical day at work - One or more of following activities –
Conceptualizing the design for a large green/ brown field project coming anywhere in the globe;
Organizing a training program in coordination with one or more of our global partners for (i) Unilever engineers or (ii) Our ESP Partners.
Stakeholder Management – Internal and/ or external – Presenting/ Appraising to higher Management;
Evaluation of a potential partner/ supplier for a Project and engaging into techno-commercial negotiations.
Participating in one of the following Design Engg. review workshops for any of the on-going Projects involving people of different nationalities, culture and native languages –
o Site Master Planning & Plant Layout review
o Process Control and Equipment layout review
o Process Hazop/ Safety review
o Cost Estimate review
o ManEx, Ergonomics & Maintainability review
o Hygiene Review
o Sustainability review
o Constructability & Schedule review
o Value Engineering
Conducting a virtual training session for 50+ odd participants from 20+ countries (all figures typical).
Conducting a F2F training / workshop somewhere around the globe for typically 20+ participants representing various Clusters/ Countries (some time with real-time multi-lingual audio translations).
Travelling – inter or cross-continent for attending to one or more of the above activities; or joining a telecom while waiting at one of the airport-lounges.
Networking, facilitating/
Hindustan Unilever Limited ( Unilever India ) is the biggest FMCG company in India with 4 major businesses viz. Refreshments , Foods, Home Care and Personal Care. This is a company which provides you a large variety of brands / products and several packaging formats/ distribution channels to work with. It is a very system and process driven company with the single minded focus on improving shareholder value by improving topline and bottomline through innovations , rennovations , value improvement and quality improvement. You get to work with some of the best talent in India in the fields of Sales / Marketing , Commercial , Supply Chain/ Supply Management and R&D. The tough part of the job is to navigate your projects through the various systems and processes whereas the enjoyable part is the exposure/ experience that you gain during the process.
ProsGreat people, great variety of experience / exposure.
ConsVery process driven which affects speed to market, Category / function driven.
Key Result Areas: Business Analysis, Change Management
• Managed global delivery model by communicating with multiple stakeholders across regions often with virtual team
• Synchronised and directed business requirement by conducting sessions with business users for reporting needs
• Elicited requirements by interviewing the users, conducting brainstorming sessions and prepare prototypes
• Document the ETL and report specifications as per the defined organization templates
• Assisted the technical team in converting the functional specifications into technical specifications
• Co-ordinated UAT sessions to ensure the requirement functionality is in accordance with the initial requirement
• Interacted with internal customers in identifying opportunities for automating the reporting solutions which resulted in decrease in head count and accurate reporting
• Assist the Change manager by managing and prioritizing the change requests and track till delivery
IT IS FUN WORKING HERE. I WISH THE CONTRACT WOULD BE EXTENDE BUT THE SALES ARE GROWING LOW NOW THAT WE HAVE REACHED TO MANY PEOPLE
I AM AN EARLY RISER MAKING SURE THAT EVERY MINUTE OF THE HOUR IS PUT INTO GOOD USE.
I HAVE LEARNT THAT FEAR KILLS MORALE. WE HAD TO PUT OUR TRUST ON WOMEN WHOM WE SAW AS UNABLE TO PAY FOR THE DEVICE AND WE ALSO ENCOURAGED THEM NOT TO FEAR.
I WORKED CORDIALLY WITH MY TEAM. NEVERTHELESS THERE WERE THOSE WHO DID NOT TEAMWORK AND I HAD TO HANDLE THEM .
THE HARDEST PART OF THE JOB WAS HANDLING CASES OF UNFAITHFULNESS FROM MY TEAM. AT SOME POINT, OTHERS WOULD HOLD BACK MONEY FROM CUSTOMERS AND USE IT FOR THERE OWN PURPOSES. TRACKING THEM IN TIME WAS HARD BUT I MANAGED TO HOWEVER.
THE MOST ENJOYABLE PART WAS DELIVERING THE DEVICES TO CUSTOMERS AND SEEING THEIR FACES GLOWING WITH JOY. I ALSO ENJOYED SEEING MY COLLAEQUES GET REWARDED FOR THEIR EFFORTS
ACHEIVEMENTS IN PURE IT WATER :
• Handling 120 Dealers and 2 KSPs with the monthly turn over of Rs:14 lakhs
• Giving 95 % bill prductive.
• Achieved Sales Target in each and every MOC.
• Conducted successful Concept Selling Meeting Days. And giving proper Sales Training .
• Keeping my Zone as NO: 1 in Chennai, and south regional
• Conducted Big Brand Activities such as Marvella OGT and Auto fill.
• Created good relationship with Govt and Non-Government Organizations.
• Conducted many Health Camps Tip up activities in my City.
ACHEIVEMENTS IN RS POINT :
Increased the Out Let Coverages.Won all Sales Contests.
Conducted Mega Display Contest for Marvella R.O.
Reduced the Wholesale Domination through proper Coverage.
Achieved huge sales through special launch of Marvella R.O.
Built Good relationship with all Wholesaler and Retailers.
My day is usually spread as below.
Engaging with business stakeholders in countries to review plans and progress on information & analytics capabilities from the perspective of project management and change management. Aligning on next steps and roles and action owners.
Secondly, working internally with various groups to deliver information and analytics deliverable's to business stakeholders in countries.
Plan and action on driving user adoption of capability rollouts in countries through effective change management practices leveraging sponsor and change agent networks.
Constantly looking out for opportunities to simplify the information and analytics landscape in countries by leveraging the global designs and ensuring optimal user adoption within budgets.
There's always something new to learn each day. Seniors are very helpful and encouraging, they often support us whenever we are in need. Managers improve the way of working and encourage creativity in work. Hard work never goes unappreciated here, and our time is valued by all. There are very less toxic employees here, mostly we have a great group of supporting colleagues. Often there is outbound and supplier visit which helps in socializing and better technical understanding. Overall, it's a wonderful place to work and grow in a career.
ProsA place to grow one's knowledge, there's no login/logout time, there's affordable lunch at the canteen, there are fun events and mental relaxation programs, once or twice a year we have an outbound.
ConsWFH has extensive working hours, there's no company vehicle for employees.
One of the fantastic organizations for role makers!
I always wanted to work in an organization that offers enough space to think independently about my own work and shape my responsibility in alignment with business need without a boundary of rigid framework. Unilever encourages me to challenge status co, think in terms of value add, spot opportunities for potential transformation. While I get flexibility to decide what I want to do that makes business sense, their is strong performance culture around living up to my delivery commitment. My work encourages me to step out of comfort zone and collaborate with other colleagues to deliver new capabilities with openness. The organization with it fast paced business has made me realized that it's only change that's constant in the world!
Unilever has been a great workplace for me, the company not only provided me with extensive exposure in the legal sphere as their marketing lawyer but also exposure in terms of interactions with the various business and research and development teams, as also many of the government organizations. A typical day at work was extremely enterprising and full of learnings and new interactions. Work at Unilever also exposed me to a lot many challenges on the legal and business perspective, however, as it is said, where there is a will there is a way and thus bearing this principle in mind, I have been successful in approaching all the challenges. I look forward to better and bigger opportunities as i move on in my career.
A typical working day at Unilever:-
SAFETY CHECKS
Before any work could be started Health and Safety checks had to be completed to ensure the area in which myself and my team were working was meeting standards. A check list had to be completed before any machinery was operated and I was responsible for ensuring tasks such as adjustments on lines to machinery to get them running to improve the lines overall effective efficiency (OEE). This enabled engineers to continue with other breakdowns on other lines or maintenance tasks.
OBJECTIVES
Objectives were set at the outset of each working day to ensure productivity targets were met.
PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity Targets were set at the outset of each working day, however self initiative was paramount to ensure deadlines and productivity targets were met.
What I learned:-
I learned that promoting a 'Can-Do' approach towards to tasks in hand ensured all of the above could be achieved. Having a positive outlook at the start of each day promoted productivity with team members.
I also learned that dependability was a key feature in my working day, Dependability was a quality that worked well for team members as they relied on me to get tasks done and also for the company as they could feel assured that I would work to the best of my ability and also lead a team of 6 staff to get the job done.
Co-operation and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and supervisors was another quality which showed a wi
ProsAnnual company events i.e:- Summer Banquets, Works parties
Todo lo necesario para sentirse un engranaje mas en la máquina sin dejar de sentirse humano.
Buena experiencia, contrato de 3 meses operario de línea, expresé no estar interesado en renovar contrato.
Posibilidad de pasar a planta permanente para el empleado productivo, si no sos vago quedas efectivo o por lo menos te renuevan. Gran rédito económico, opción de trabajar extra, 12 horas, 1/2 hora refrigerio, 1/2 hora almuerzo, relevos 5 a 10 minutos para tomar un cafe e ir al baño, terminas trabajando menos de 11 horas. Indumentaria y elementos de seguridad de primera calidad, constante renovación.
Se almorzaba en el mismo espacio que el personal administrativo, lo cual resultaba molesto.
En ese tiempo los del fonavi hacían piquete y no dejaban pasar a los trabajadores, esos días por lo general no se trabajaba, en tres meses ocurrieron dos piquetes.
Las líneas de producción son un desastre, numerosas averías, máquinas y robots de descarte de otras plantas a lo largo del mundo, reacondicionadas y trabajando como viene, todo atado con alambre, el personal de mantenimiento esta todo el día haciendo cebo, pero su lugar de trabajo no esta en la ceberia.
Las mejores lineas: Duros (trabajo intenso pero buenos compañeros), Linea 4 (normal y buenos compañeros), Dove (pocos empleados, no hay mucho para hacer, seguro ya la desmantelaron al volver las importaciones)
Para cerrar, la tri-pack un sentimiento, en ese momento la bautizamos "la tripa", es una adefesio pero está apartada unos trescientos metros en un depósito, nadie va a molestar y la producción que se exije se lo
ProsRemuneración, posibilidad de crecimiento, seguro médico, premios, cajas de productos, proveeduría con saldo mensual provisto por recibo.
ConsUbicación inaccesible, transporte privado limitado y adecuado a los empleados antigüos, lineas de producción regentadas por cabezas duras con antigüedad, irregularidades en el calculo de impuestos a las ganancias, pésimo mantenimiento de instalaciones, averías, fugas, derrames, todo atado con alambre.
My typical day at work:
08:00 – 10:00/11:00
Planning the “24h” export transports from the 1st stock
Answering the export relevant letters
In case of special exports – RU;RS;CH – refresh the Supplier Declarations to reach beneficiary cost during customs clearance (Prove the EU origin)
Dock Booking – register the orderless trucks and confirm the well registered ones
Keeping contact with production planners – pay special attention for urgent goods
11:00 – 12:00
DHL issues – Talk to warehouse if they have collected any further samples were asked by one of the MSO we produce goods for
Make the packages, generate the orders in Intra Ship and order the DHL messenger
If there is no DHL issue I ask my colleague who is responsible for Master Data processes if I can help to
Extend or create new codes in SAP
Build BOMs (Bill of Materials)
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch time
12:30 – 14:00
Going further with Master Data issues
Answering the incoming letters
Provide the requested information (for UTPO, MSO planners, DC HOPI, internal requests)
Registering and confirming trucks in Dock Booking system
14:00 – 16:00
Planning the “48h” export transports from the 2nd stock
Counting with stock in transit to reach better efficiency
Aware UTPO about missing and wrong registrations at DC HOPI
Keeping contact with production planners – pay special attention for urgent goods
Dock Booking – register the orderless trucks and confirm the well registered ones
During this four years I le
ProsTeam buildings and factory trips
ConsStressed atmosphere
4.0
Product Development Engineer | London | 25 Sept 2014
Corporate Conglomerate with major global brands, diversity, global leaders & a great mission statement
Global brand development in London either meeting in Studio marketing office or Unilever Chelsey corporate offices for top-level meetings. Daily review of US innovation teams needs due to time change. Once US projects and directives have been executed, then regroup with Creative Team for their input on product strategy, brand launches, upcoming events, and projects. Depending on which country is in town or on the calendar host multiple int'l conference calls to source and resolve various regional responsibilities and challenges. Manage and orchestrate top-level professionals product testing results along with organizing multi-tiered international flow communicating project guidelines and goals while relaying info to US innovation teams in real time. I learned invaluable huge corporation policies and procedures, research practices, politics, and expedient project follow through. Management and global leaders were all brilliant and motivating maintaining strong focus and understanding of objectives. Co-workers were very diverse throughout EU and aggressive in making a strong imprint on the brand however they saw fit although they were not as friendly or brand loyal as I had hoped. Hardest part of the job was supporting the new brand direction I felt conflicted about that ultimately decreased revenue globally while working long hours to help in a movement i didn't truly believe in with people who were more in it for themselves rather than the company. The most enjoyable part of
Prosexcellent opportunities, growth potential, amazing benefits, travel, strong team focus and drive
ConsConflicting brand direction, non-personable co-workers other than superiors, high stress
Meet sales Reps and make calls on many different classes of trade.
Management had a " Cavalier Attitude" to hiring Sales Reps. One was hired before I on-boarded with the firm in Wantaugh ,L.I.
Then he was assigned to Cover Fairfield County, CT and Westchester County outside NYC. It generally took him 2 hours in the morning before he reached his first call and 2 hours at the end of the day in the evening to get home. He burned out quickly.
Management had a " Cavalier Attitude" to attending meetings on time. Often meetings were scheduled at the office for 8;30 AM and the Manager would stroll in at 10 to 10:30 AM saying it was traffic.
We all faced the same traffic.
The hardest part of the job was competing with top brands like Crest from Proctor and Gamble and Colgate. These were well established brands and had consistent advertising and marketing support on TV . Lever did not support these brands and they died on the vine and were sold to Arm & Hammer. After many new product failures Lever learned that the best way to build a #1 brand name was to BUY it and they did a great purchase of Chesborough-Ponds after I left the firm.
Selling and maintaining placement of any product line in a grocery store/chain is like going to war every day. If your products are not supported by a strong marketing program as well as well trained and staffed sales force the products will not survive over the long term as viable inventory items in the trade.
The Sales Reps that I wor
ProsBig Consumer marketing firm with Huge Marketing Budget
ConsHuge failure rate for new product introductions from the 60;s through the 70's
tanto Unilever Brasil quanto a empresa tercerizada Nova Rheal Consultoria, é uma empresa que não tenho que raclamar, é uma empresa muito organizada com regras que deve ser seguidas dentro de seus princípios, aonde eu fui trabalhar na área logística da Unilever prestando serviço atravéz da nova Rheal consultoria uma empresa terceirizada dentro da Unilever ha 30 anos.
apartir do momento em que eu fui contratada para trabalhar na logística, eu procurei aprender de tudo na logística, e o conhecimento que eu tenho nessa área, se eu for começar trabalhar e uma outra empresa e tenho tudo pra fazer uma empresa crescer, tenho conhecimento e experiência na área, principalmente conhecimento como o Silbel-Call Center - Atendimento de Soluções de Problemas.
SAP e TMS, sistemas gerenciais de controle e monitoriamento.
Gestão de empresas agregadas ao setor de Logística.
Administração de programas como 5S
Faturamento e distribuição a nível Brasil,
Faturamento de SAP
Digitação e Escrituração de CTR’s
Relatórios diários e mensais como Brienfing, Informativo.
Ocupação, Estatístico, Tail, Programação On-line.
Arvore de perda como definição de motivo e lançamento SAP
Cancelamento e retorno de NF’s
Faturamento mensal
Formação de cargas nas Manufaturas
Elaboração de N.Q - Envio de notificação de qualidade
Análise e recebimento de devoluçôes de clientes
Pagamento de fretes (transportadora).
Porém não tenho momentos difíceis nessa empresa, sempre fui uma empsa agradável para trabalhar, e la dentro eu
Prostinhamos um refeitório na empresa aonde fornecia refeição aos funcionãrios
Conse tinhas todos os beneficios que uma empresa pode oferecer
Pros
• Nice offices in London
• Free ice-cream freezer
• Good food in the canteen
• Gym, GP on site
• Some employees are really nice and hardworking people
• Interesting projects
Cons
• The company is not what it was 10 years ago
• The company has lost its professionalism and now only rakes in benefits of its own name/reputation
• Many employees overworked, on stress leave or have outstanding grievances with the organisation
• Culture of intimidation, harassment and bullying is supported widely in the organisation by HR and by senior and executive employees
• Hidden agendas of senior employees are destructing from delivering the job
• Senior management does not live what they preach and overtly behave hypocritically
• Conflict of agendas of senior employees and therefore difficult work relationships between departments
• Extremely disorganised – left hand does not know what right hand is doing
• People are hiding behind general email addresses which breads culture of not being held accountable
• Technical systems within Unilever far below standard of FTSE 350 (let alone number 5 of FTSE 100)
• Extremely poor or no learning/training opportunities
• This is not a company for mid-career hire. The company employs long-service senior mgmt (Directors, VP, EVP and C level) and then people without any experience. Mid-career employees with experience are discouraged from doing their job.
• This results in high turnover of the employees who actually are doing the
A truly learning organization with performance orientation
For almost 5 years of my early working life, I both contributed to the business success of the organization and had a wonderful learning experience with this global giant in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Market [FMCG].
I worked in a Business Process Review/Management Team [that reviewed key Business Processes in 5 Divisions of the Group] in my first year: Then I moved to the Product Development function before moving into the Marketing function. My working in Business Process and Marketing required me to travel a lot both within and outside Ghana.
Typical day at work would involve my participating in a morning departmental meeting at which we would review the previous day's activities and pick up on any outstanding items that required further attention. The rest of the day would find me applying myself to tasks that would lead to my achieving my day's objectives.
I learned my whole foundation of Management principles with Unilever. I learned how to work smart and work to achieve set objectives. I learned the culture of planning, monitoring and controlling how a business should run. I learned how to work in teams, both as a member and as a Leader. I learned hot to communicate effectively and how to place my unique talents at the disposal of my team and the organization.
Management were very receptive to new ideas and mentored us young Managers.
I had very helpful co-workers and although there were times when we did not agree on a number of issues, we always found ways t
The entire privacy programme and strategy is about helping everyone to understand their role in privacy. Once Unilever's privacy principles and legal objectives are widely understood then our strategy will succeed. The entire concept of trust and transparency is fundamental to our digital growth ambitions to have a two way dialogue with one billion people, and the need to demonstrate how we comply with the law is built on the ‘Accountability Principle’. Through the provision of tools, techniques, guides, policies, procedures and standards - that will ensure that privacy principles are fully established throughout Unilever. We have also achieved the following: • Single handedly engaged with nearly every ULE board member on privacy and related security issues, and developed and cultivated relationships and networks across the entire business in nearly every MCO/Cluster. • Raised the profile of privacy within Unilever and advised Paul Polman, Audit Committee and NEDs on issues of privacy and cyber security. • Cultivated an open dialogue with key functions where the Privacy CoE are seen as a ‘must invite’ on committees and project boards including SalesForce, CEC, PRM, Workday and many more. As a leader, I am required to establish and maintain a consistently high level of motivation remains throughout our privacy programme. Over the last three years, I have replaced four people to ensure the equilibrium, passion and focus remains in place. This helps to drive people’s enthusiasm
ProsInternational experience
ConsLots of travel
Questions And Answers about Unilever
Why did you leave your job at Unilever?
Asked 21 Mar 2017
I leave the company when I realized I am no t satisfied his work
Answered 3 Dec 2018
Self improvement not available
Answered 1 Jun 2018
What is interview process like at Unilever?
Asked 28 Feb 2017
Unilever is an best product of cunsume and health in india. So I like it HUL.
Answered 28 Dec 2017
Based on merit
Answered 4 Oct 2017
What questions did they ask during your interview at Unilever?
Asked 28 Feb 2017
Unilever is most branded in world
Answered 16 Mar 2018
Previous company details
Answered 28 Aug 2017
What is the miniman salary structure of team leader excluding(t. A and d. A)
Asked 13 Oct 2017
It's alltime highly ideal to enjoy
Answered 16 Sept 2019
17000 minimum salary starting to field coach
Answered 23 Feb 2018
Does Unilever require background check? What kind of background check does Unilever do and how long does Unilever take to complete a background check?
Asked 11 Jun 2019
Yes. They call your old bosses and talk to them.
Answered 22 Jan 2020
Professional agencies do the background check and pretty fast
