New Venture Project Lead, Wellbeing Collective

This a full-time role within an acquired company, therefore if you, as a Unilever employee, apply for and are selected for this role, you will move under the acquired business terms and conditions including pay, benefits, employee policies etc.

Who Are We?

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

Our Business

Unilever’s Wellbeing Collective Group (WBC) holds the company’s health and wellness brands and the portfolio of brands that includes Equilibra (Italy) and US acquired brands Olly, Liquid IV, Nutrafol, SmartyPants, Welly and Onnit. Each brand is completely unique and focused on giving consumers superior experiences within their respective spaces and target segments. We are committed to continuing to grow this strategic business for Unilever by leveraging the full strength of Unilever’s capabilities and expanding the reach of our portfolio internationally.

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 roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, to be entrepreneurial and experiment, as well as bring in the best of Unilever and work the structures of a large company, and to take charge and lead, as well as follow and support others.

About the Opportunity

We are building a confidential new venture within a high growth, science led wellness platform and are seeking a senior innovation leader to shape, build, and operationalize this opportunity from early exploration through launch readiness.

This is not a line extension role. This is an opportunity to architect and deliver a potential new growth engine, working directly with senior leadership across Strategy, M&A, R&D, Supply Chain, and Finance. The mandate is strategic, fast paced, and high visibility, with direct exposure to enterprise level decision making.

The Role

The Project Lead will serve as the end-to-end owner of a confidential venture exploration and build. Reporting to the Head of Strategy and M&A, this individual will frame the opportunity, lead validation, drive cross functional execution, and translate concept into a commercially and operationally ready launch plan.

This role combines venture design with hands on delivery. The individual will lead a dedicated cross functional team and be accountable for advancing the initiative from early hypothesis through validated concept, pilot readiness, and launch execution planning.

A critical dimension of the role is shaping a differentiated, premium proposition while ensuring operational feasibility, margin discipline, and scalability are embedded from the outset.

Key Responsibilities

What We Are Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in innovation, brand building, or general management within wellness, beverages, food or broader consumer goods
• Demonstrated success bringing new products or platforms from concept through commercialization
• Strong cross functional leadership across R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams
• Experience balancing consumer ambition with operational and financial discipline
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while imposing structure, pace, and accountability
• Exposure to venture incubation, partnership evaluation, or M&A environments is a plus

Terms & Conditions

Given the highly confidential nature of this project, we will only follow up with internal applicants who are selected to move forward in the process. An NDA will be required once interviews begin.

The salary range for this role is $151,300 - $226,900 annually. The exact salary is determined by various factors including experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal company equity, and budget. The listed range is applicable only to the annual base salary and does not include additional perks, benefits, or applicable bonus eligibility comprising the total compensation package as part of acquired business company's unique reward package and leveling and titling convention.

As this role and company are within the Unilever span of companies, your Unilever continuity of service may be taken into consideration and carried into the new company and therefore you may be eligible for additional relevant benefits. More details will be provided during the interview process.

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