Clinical Development Senior Manager, HEALTH & WELLBEING

Background & Purpose of the Job 
 

We are the Global Health & Wellbeing (H&W) team at Unilever. We are focused on one of Unilever’s largest growth opportunities – the €140bn Health & Wellbeing space defined by Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements (VMS). 

We work in an agile, fast-moving environment, collaboratively within the team and with our Unilever colleagues around the world. We work in a project based networked way where everyone needs to be able to take a step back and think strategically as well as rolling up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, to be entrepreneurial and experiment as well as bringing in the best of Unilever and work the structures of a large company, to take charge and lead as well as follow and support others. 
 

OUR BUSINESS 

Unilever’s Health & Wellbeing Group holds the company’s functional nutrition brands and the portfolio of brands that includes Equilibra (Italy) and US acquired brands Olly, Liquid IV, Smarty Pants, Welly, Onnit, and Nutrafol. Each brand is completely unique and focused on giving consumers superior experiences within their respective spaces and target segments. We are committed to continue grow this strategic business for Unilever through a series of acquisitions and international expansion of acquired brands through Unilever’s scale and network in the markets. 

Who You Are & What You’ll Do 
 
The Clinical Development Senior Manager (CDM) will play a critical role in the Nutritional Sciences and Innovation team.  The CDM will be responsible to partner with internal project teams and external suppliers to create fit for purpose approaches to the design, development and execution of clinical studies and the management, analysis interpretation of the data generated from the studies.  The CDM will utilize the results to enable data-based decision- making insight generation and claims substantiation to innovation projects.  The CDM will provide subject matter expertise in dietary supplements for key benefit areas of energy, immunity, digestive health, women’s health, hydration and sugar reduction across different innovation activities. 

The role reports to the Global Director, Nutritional Sciences and Innovation, Health & Wellbeing and will interface with the Global and Regional R&D teams. 

The role requires the ability to work within a small agile core team and influence a matrix organization.  Strong people and networking skills and a true passion for innovation also required. 
 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES 

Lead  

• Lead and manage all platform-led Clinical Trials Development activities within The Collective 

• KOL Mapping for key scientific areas of interest including innovative clinical trial design 

• Generate evidence development plans for claims substantiation  

• Organization of the Clinical Sciences Forum 

• Data Management and Statistics thought leadership 

• Establish Data Transfer P