Asst. Procurement Manager S&I B&W

Assistant Procurement Manager B&W S&I

Location: India

Full-time

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain’s family, Procurement is responsible for over 40B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 58,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand brand needs, bring supplier innovation to meet changing consumer needs and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

With over 1350 employees globally, we support a network of thousands of suppliers, more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers who in turn support communities of over 7 million people. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better and growing together with partners around the world and we have an ambition that is based on three key drivers: Being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven and Future-Fit.

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization for each BG to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. This team is responsible for: 

• Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams

• Creating and implementing data-driven decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes

• Developing and enabling procurement strategies with respective network VPs and portfolio and market teams based on strategic insights

• Identifying, scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams

• Facilitating rapid learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

• To be a healthy forward-looking challenger with the following key activities:

• Support the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with B&W Procurement Teams, BG Leads, S&I and Finance.

• Facilitate creation and updating of BG / portfolio strategies and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions.

• Crate insights from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process.

• Derive value creation opportunities based on deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling

• Conduct supply and demand analysis, in collaboration with the portfolio sourcing teams

KEY INTERACTIONS

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Associate Manager – Beauty & Wellbeing will interface with the following stakeholders:

• BG & BU B&W Procurement teams,

• Procurement Strategy & Insights teams

• Portfolio Procurement team

• Finance Team

• UniOps and Sourcing Operations team

• Key Suppliers and agencies/partners

• Industry and insights resources

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Supports S&I agenda in Beauty & Wellbeing BG and support transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with B&W Procurement, S&I and Finance teams.

• Transformation projects agenda in S&I works across several portfolios, and closely co-ordinated with Finance, B&W PLT. Co-leads the program and its components, lead stakeholder conversations and create analytics based insights for opportunities.

• Scout newest market trend and technology of Procurement & Supply Chain functions in multi-industries and convert into new transformation projects as new capability building into the organization.

• Supports 7 Steps strategic sourcing assessment.

Insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process.

• Develops the data mining approach, together with the Digital Strategy team, to uncover valuable business insights that can be transformed into actionable plans

• Analyses data to seek trends, patterns, anomalies, and findings that drive useful business insights

• Translates data into insights by discovering, creating, testing, and validating hypotheses with the portfolio sourcing teams, communicating the insights and working with the sourcing teams to develop and execute strategies that leverage these insights

Derives value creation opportunities based on a deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling.

• Executes detailed Value Chain analysis to define opportunities to intervene/intermediate at different levels, taking into account all the different Packaging we source

• Is closely connected with the Markets and Industry boards, acquiring the relevant Intel to identify opportunities and creates technology/Innovation roadmaps based on Mega Trends

• Masters the Benchmarking tools and through internal and external evaluation draws conclusions to guide the sourcing team to the optimum supply base as well as assets

• Supports the development of the Cost modelling for the portfolio

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

• Strategic, Systemic Thinking & Entrepreneurial

• Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills

• High Growth mindset & Consumer Love

• Strong Communication & Influencing skills

• High Initiative, Quick Learner and Self-Starter

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Preferred over 3 years’ experience in a Procurement or Supply Chain roles either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large complex organisation with strong portfolio and market expertise

• Consulting experience in Tier 1 consulting firms would be a plus

• Strong business and commercial acumen

• Has a good understanding of Agile principles, values, methodologies and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do – learn) approach

• Ability to work independently and collaborate with teams spread across different geographies

• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment – both F2F and virtually

• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills in order to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely

D&I statement:

• Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

• Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

Interested candidates share your resume on- POG-Fatema.Khilawala@unilever.com