Tiffany Yizar
About
Tiffany Yizar is from Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. Tiffany is currently Head of R&D - Beauty & Wellbeing North America at Unilever, located in Trumbull, CT. In Tiffany's previous role as a Sr. Director Beauty & Wellbeing North America - Polycultural Center of Excellence Lead at Unilever, Tiffany worked in Trumbull, Connecticut, United States until Jan 2025. Prior to joining Unilever, Tiffany was a President - Black Excellence at Unilever (BE-U) at Unilever and held the position of President - Black Excellence at Unilever (BE-U) at Trumbull, Connecticut, United States. Prior to that, Tiffany was a Sr R&D Manager - Simple Skincare at Unilever, based in Trumbull, Connecticut, United States from Aug 2021 to Jan 2023. Tiffany started working as Sr R&D Manager - Consumer Technical Insights (CTI) at Unilever in Trumbull, Connecticut, United States in Jan 2021. From Feb 2020 to Jan 2021, Tiffany was Sr. R&D Manager - Sustainability Lead at Unilever, based in Trumbull, Connecticut, United States. Prior to that, Tiffany was a R&D Manager at Unilever, based in Trumbull, Connecticut from Jan 2018 to Feb 2020. Tiffany started working as Sr. Packaging Engineer at Unilever in Trumbull, Connecticut in Feb 2017.
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Tiffany Yizar's current jobs
Lead the business unit R&D team responsible for marquee haircare and skincare brands Nexxus, SheaMoisture, TRESemme, Dove, Vaseline. In addition, I continue to serve as Head of R&D for SheaMoisture masterbrand and lead the Poly cultural Center of Excellence site-wide capability.
Tiffany Yizar's past jobs
Leading business resource group focused on Black employees and allies, and driving equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives for our organization and our brands.
R&D program lead for Simple face care & cleansing portfolio leading team driving our clean beauty innovation and renovation agenda.
Skin care Consumer Technical Insights manager for new brand MELE, bringing the voice of the consumer to center of our product innovation & reflecting back authentic, relevant and clinically backed claims for the melanin-rich skin consumer. Global lead for sustainability claims, communications, and education & authority (internal/external) for skin care category.
Lead sustainability and climate action programs for Skin Care category. That includes tracking metrics aligned to the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and divisional/category metrics, setting key technologies strategies and tracking progress, liaising internally and externally for best practice or breakthrough initiatives, and finally, educating internally and externally (through consumer comms) on the nuances of sustainability and impacts of the climate crisis.
Accountability includes coordinating global skin care packaging sustainability strategy - including advancing the R&D agenda supporting our Unilever Sustainable Living Program - driving PCR, recyclability improvements, and waste reduction. Managed global Dove Skin Care & Simple Face Care packaging development team. Support strategy development and deployment for global skin care sustainability - focus on PCR. (included 6 month assignment in Shanghai, China - June to Dec 2018)
Packaging Engineer supporting global design and NA regional deployment for the Dove Skincare group.
Lead the Global Dairy Packaging team, a subdivision of the Global Beverages Packaging R&D team. This includes leading all activities pertaining to new package introductions in key growth &/or emerging markets, dairy packaging innovation exploration, and cross-functional strategic planning. Also led packaging development agenda for Brazil Dairy portfolio (existing & new business).
Led PepsiCo beverages packaging innovation and brand maintenance projects transcending multiple geographic regions or wholly executed outside of North America. Additionally, support the global beverages packaging council - ensuring consistent governance to PepsiCo packaging standards in all regions.
Start-Up Manager & Packaging Technical Engineer for the site's highest priority capital project - consolidation of two glass bottle lines to a dual-back end high-speed line. Also provided site-wide engineering support on the bottling lines and continuous improvement process leadership support to the business unit team.
Drove productivity and reliability improvements on packaging systems supporting the Yoplait business. Have increased system performance over fifteen percentage points via equipment modifications, reinforcement of cleaning practices, and the implementation of multiple continuous improvement tools. Also led execution of a capacity expansion capital project resulting in over one million additional equivalent cases
Based out of Minneapolis, I managed packaging structural design changes for the Yoplait division of General Mills. During my tenure I worked across all of our business units and the entire Yoplait packaging portfolio. I also led a strategy group focused on developing and implementing a holistic sustainability strategy. This strategy work expanded beyond the Yoplait division, influencing the sustainability strategy of the Corporation and for the Packaging group.
Worked on developing and refining process procedures for the color cosmetics group, specifically eyeshadows and all lip color products.
I worked on the Nature Valley bars as a part of the Canada Snacks group