What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Initiative Leader position at Wella Company?
TITLE: Global Initiative Manager
LOCATION: Calabasas
REPORTS TO: Director, Global OPI
ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY
Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.
Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Sr. Initiative Leader to join our OPI Initiative Management Team who can lead a multi-functional team, to develop and execute a comprehensive initiative plan that delivers in-market success. The Initiative Leader uses his/her expertise in Initiative Systems to deliver outstanding, breakthrough business results. The Initiative Leader collaborates with all the multi-functional team members, but especially with the Commercial/Brand Leader and Go-to-Market Leader to ensure that all necessary learning, qualification, and execution activities of the initiative are completed in support of a successful launch. The Initiative Leader will be expected to manage a portfolio of projects which may vary between new product launches & technical design depending on Business needs.
- Owning End 2 End readiness and timeliness of the initiative across technical, commercial and
- Leading the integration of the multi-functional team and leverage our innovation processes for
- Collaborating with multi-functional partners to deliver a portfolio of initiatives that is sufficient to fulfill the brand innovation strategy in consumer offer, business scale and profitability.
- Building alignment with initiative stakeholders on all plans. Crisis-Like Collaboration. Drives and
- Ensuring the adherence to operating strategies for new launches or drives team options
- Owning and driving any initiative issue to resolution while demonstrating courageous leadership
- Overseeing action plan led by planning and manufacturing teams and leading resolution plans in
ensuring fast decision making.
- Acts as Initiative Lead to divisional leadership for all initiative reporting, Gates decisions and change management. Coordinates communication and recommendations with functional leadership (across Supply Chain, R&D and Commercial)
- Delivers Initiative Success. Clarify business objectives and expectations, Delivers project
- Guiding initiative teams to develop holistic Gate-process-based learning to deliver on-time
- Coaching the Initiative team members in delivering their tasks in synchronization and with efficient
• Project management experience - 5-10 years project management related experience is essential
- Experience of WELLA COMPANY Operations and/or Beauty, FMCG, or Food industries.
- Understanding of new product development processes & stage gate approach
- Exposure to production environment & interaction of packaging, process, manufacturing
- Strong Microsoft excel & Microsoft project capability
- Additional background in planning/purchasing/technical environment also beneficial
- Demonstrates a strong sense of individual accountability
- Makes fast decisions balancing intuition and facts
- Proactively seeks improvement, is a solution provider and a problem solver
- Makes innovation happen within real-life constraints
- Learns from successes and failures, looks for and reapplies best practices
- Embraces and accelerates change in a fast-paced environment
- Is resilient and flexible, adapts to new challenges
- Thrives on challenges and keeps a healthy attitude under pressure
- Demonstrates relevant business knowledge & financial awareness
- Is dedicated to driving the business in a profitable & sustainable way
- Adapts leadership style to situations & people, finds the right balance between delegation & control
- Gives constructive & actionable feedback to improved performance & development
EEO OPPORTUNITIES
We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Wella Company with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
We strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences, and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results. EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled.
