Unilever International

**Job title**:Unilever International - R&D - Beverages - Executive

**Location**: Bengaluru, Whitefield, Bangalore**, India**

**Purpose & Context**

Unilever International is Unilever’s White Space Arm of Unilever. With a TO of 1.4 billion € it is one of the fastest and profitable business of Unilever.

UI works across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe, and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce, and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have global presence and UI hubs all over the world.

R&D is spread across India (Mumbai, and Bangalore), Korea, Europe and USA.

Foods in Unilever International is a €300 million business with great potential and growing big. Unilever International will be back in Tea export business from July 1st 2025 for Indian diaspora in key geographies and will look at innovation/ renovation/ value improvement projects for both product and process development in Beverages (Tea, Instant Tea). India will be the key sourcing unit for all key blends under Red Label, Taj Mahal, 3 Roses, Taaza etc..

**Purpose of the job**: To lead Tea innovation for key brands from India - understand key WiMi blends and suggest suitable blends for target markets. Planning and execution of experiments, landing strategic projects for Beverages in UI.

Unilever International is Unilever’s White Space Arm of Unilever. With a TO of 1.4 billion € it is one of the fastest and profitable business of Unilever.

UI works across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe, and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce, and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have global presence and UI hubs all over the world.

R&D is spread across India (Mumbai, and Bangalore), Korea, Europe and USA.

Foods in Unilever International is a €300 million business with great potential and growing big. Unilever International will be back in Tea export business from July 1st 2025 for Indian diaspora in key geographies and will look at innovation/ renovation/ value improvement projects for both product and process development in Beverages (Tea, Instant Tea). India will be the key sourcing unit for all key blends under Red Label, Taj Mahal, 3 Roses, Taaza etc..

**Purpose of the job**: To lead Tea innovation for key brands from India - understand key WiMi blends and suggest suitable blends for target markets. Planning and execution of experiments, landing strategic projects for Beverages in UI.

**Key Responsibilities**

The job will lead all the R&D interventions for UI Tea blends, and value-added tea products (Instant tea/coffee-based products). The job requires collaborating with cross-functional teams, such as TEC (Tea Excellence Centre), Regulatory, Supply chain, Finance, Quality, and HUL R&D, to ensure smooth execution of the innovation pipeline and market delivery.

**Core**:

- Drive & deliver formulation design work for innovations & cost saving initiatives to deliver superior and consumer winning products OTIF
- Driving projects on Instant tea/Instant Coffee based premixes, Tea bags, Black & Green tea, R&G Coffee, and Roasted Coffee Beans
- Ensuring statutory regulatory & legal compliances for products & process
- Responsible for establishing appropriate technology for manufacturing products to specification at lab-scale and pilot-scale
- Responsible for scaling up to factory with relevant transfer of technology documentation and training factory team.
- Responsible for specification of formulation, process, pack, and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.
- Conduct shelf-life studies to establish shelf-life of new pro