The CDIO, India serves as a strategic digital partner, delivering value to HUL through comprehensive Digitization and Data & Tech Service delivery. This role serves as the Digital & Tech lead for the HUL business working closely with the HUL Management committee & BU LT to finalize priorities for digital investment, work with the Product teams to finalize roadmap and drive digital adoption to create value.
Empowered with decision rights, the role actively promotes cross-domain product collaboration and leverages Power of One initiatives and supports differentiation when it is required to meet the HUL strategy. The CDIO, India, working closely with the BU and Functional leaders, proposes, approves, and oversees end-to-end digitization strategy for HUL and aligns with HUL leadership on OKRs and value realization.
Additionally, the role focuses on product adoption, represents HUL strategies into Global Digital & Tech, aligning on differentiated Tech and AI roadmap for the market where relevant in partnership with the Product teams.
The CDIO, India is responsible for efficient budget management and talent development within the India engagement team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Trusted partner of HUL LT & BU LT.
- Creates value through Digitization & Service delivery in HUL BU’s and Functions.
- Accountable for success/failure of Global Digital & Tech for HUL and fully empowered on decision rights accordingly.
- Participates in the BGs CDIO forum with Product Domain & Families to enable cross BG.
Power of One initiatives and learnings.
- Strategy and planning
- Creates the digitization strategy E2E and agrees OKRs with HUL MC.
- Oversight of product roadmaps and value realization management in line with BU and Functional OKR’s.
- Prioritizes the backlog and new projects with Product Domains / Families Leads.
- Supports the product adoption & change management into HUL BU’s and Functions.
- Represents HUL strategies into Global Digital & Tech, and is the final voice of the Blueprint for that Business Group.
- Identifies white space opportunities and collaborates with Products to create/deploy Tech & D&A capabilities.
- Ensuring the right HUL team members engage with Product teams to ensure roadmap delivery.
- Value realization
- Global Digital & Tech budget management & Cost Transparency for HUL & BU.
- Prioritisation lead on behalf of the HUL.
- Represent E2E Value Capture from Global Digital & Tech landing in HUL & BU.
- Accountable for business deployment and change management into the market.
- Business Continuity
- Lead for business continuity for HUL including Nepal.
- Business Analytics Team
- Enable Business Analytics across HUL to ensure targeted and real-time intelligence for decision-making.
- Talent Development
- Talent management of the India CDIO organization.
- Participate in relevant Global Digital & Tech Talent Forums.
Experience
- Deep experience in leading a strategic Tech and Data agenda in line with business objectives.
- Proven delivery in managing and overseeing a complex and diverse organisation-wide agenda, ideally having partnered CD, Marketing and Supply Chain
- Deep experience of working at a country / market operation level as well as leading regional or global teams
- Experience of managing complex stakeholder situations with strong collaboration and influencing skills to manage the paradox of leveraging global scale and driving global strategies whilst responding to individual business needs.
- The ability to translate technical opportunities into business outcomes (and vice versa).
- Experience in collaborating on global programmes and translating them into successful market executions.
- A strong network within the company with ability to build strong and robust partnerships.
- Proven track record of leading and building skilled talent and teams.
Skills
- Business Partnering – Builds effective internal partnerships, flexing to get the best from the relationship
- Technology Acumen – Deep working understanding of various technologies and overall technology landscape with ability to drive penetration of emerging technologies such as AI that would lead to business growth.
- Data & AI Acumen – Deep understanding of data management and AI
- Business Strategy Alignment – Understands business objectives and translate them into technology and data strategy that drives efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.
- Change Management – Lands large scale transformations across the tech & data landscape as well as leading large teams through change.
- Commercial Acumen–Commercial leader with a strong grasp of financial levers and budget management and a clear ambition to drive both value and profitable growth.
Leadership Behaviors
The CDIO, India role is expected to demonstrate high standards of core Unilever behaviors
- Care Deeply – Care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win.
- Focus on what counts – Clear prioritization and set stretching goals and recognise maximum performance impact.
- Stay 3 steps ahead – Think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance, building for the future & delivering today
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Deliver with excellence – Deliver everything we do with excellence and pace.