Hiring: Associate Manager Foods Product Development Company: Unilever Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 14:02:48 Target Skills & Keywords : Project Management, R, Risk Management About the job Required Skills: •Cooking Aids and Mini Meals is a critical pillar within Unilever’s Food business, anchored by Knorr Bouillon as one of the strongest growth engines in the North America portfolio. Bouillon is central to Knorr’s ambition to lead flavor, confident cooking, modern convenience, and premiumization for today’s consumers. •As the Bouillon Pillar Lead for the CAMM R&D team, this role will lead the North America bouillon technical agenda. The role will own day-to-day R&D delivery across bouillon projects, shape and maintain the innovation roadmap, and ensure key technologies from the Global R&D team landed with speed, quality, and strong cross-functional alignment. •Lead the CAMM bouillon pillar as the primary R&D owner for the North America bouillon portfolio, ensuring clear priorities, strong technical direction, and disciplined delivery across active projects. •Own and maintain the bouillon innovation and renovation roadmap, connecting consumer needs, category strategy, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and business value. •Lead technical delivery for priority bouillon projects, including concept development, formulation strategy, prototype development, technical risk assessment, factory trials, scale-up, documentation, and commercialization readiness. •Partner with the BG R&D team to land key global technologies in North America, adapting platforms for local consumer, regulatory, supply chain, cost, quality, and manufacturing needs. •Build a clear pipeline of future bouillon opportunities across premiumization, wellness, convenience, flavor leadership, resiliency, simplification, and cost optimization. •Serve as the technical partner to Brand, CTI, Culinary, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality, Procurement, Finance, and suppliers, ensuring projects are consumer-led, technically robust, and commercially viable. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field. •Proven experience in product development, preferably across savory foods, bouillon, seasonings, sauces, soups, or adjacent dry and wet culinary formats. •Strong project leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple innovation, renovation, and business-support projects simultaneously. •Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and communicate technical decisions with clarity. •Strong technical judgment, problem-solving capability, and ability to balance consumer, business, regulatory, quality, cost, supply chain, and manufacturing requirements. •This position is bonus eligible. Compensation: •$88,600 - $133,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!