Global procurement manager- Flexible feedstocks in Latam

Unilever is currently hiring for a Global Procurement Manager - Flexible Feedstocks Latam

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

There has never been a more exciting time to be working in Procurement when you consider the sheer scale of what we are seeking to do in terms of Procurement with Purpose supporting the UL vision of Brands with Purpose grow, Companies with purpose last and People with Purpose Thrive. ‘Purpose’ is at the heart of what we do. 

As Unilever Procurement adapts to the ever-dynamic business environment, we will need to be agile in order to continue our track record of delivery in contributing to the top and bottom line. Inevitably, given the consistent and high quality of our delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to continue this rate of performance and indeed go over and above this standard to ensure the value provided is further enhanced across the scope of our remit.

As well as ensuring that we are best in class in delivering the basics, we also must look to the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment - reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage. And of course, we are only half of the picture.  Our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations.

This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals.

You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet.

Because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Strategy:

• Responsible for the Latam feedstocks road map with 3-5 strategy- what to buy, where to buy, how to buy, when to buy, whom to buy from.
• Develop and implement strategies working closely with regional portfolio / formats managers - assessing needs of the market, deep value chain understanding, industry analysis.
• Competitive supplier selection or development
• Benchmarking & best practices -identify metrics, tools, and process to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
• Initiate and drive large global change management projects e.g., Complexity reduction projects (e.g., harmonisation of specifications and suppliers), resilience.
• To support in delivering Unilever ‘s multi-year commitments on sustainable sourcing of plastics - the environment, well-being, and social imperatives in the procurement of materials and services.
• Close liaison with regional teams and strategy and insights teams on contract board and strategy council submissions, cost model development and competitiveness vs the market and implementation of insights through strategy and negotiations.
• Communicate Flexibles feedstocks strategy with multiple stakeholders in Unilever.

Value Creation:

• Overall, responsible for the value creation program/competitiveness in films & resins including but not limited to- driving price transparency through directed buy or right to audit, indices change or optimisation, competitive resin formulas including cost model approach- monomer plus, logistics optimisation, alternate suppliers and material approvals, grade harmonisation for scale and competitiveness and value chain disruptions.
• Work with the regional procurement managers to integrate global sourcing strategies with business and portfolio demands, ensuring timely inputs to and OTIF execution of global/regional strategy and projects.
• Collaboration with collaborative manufacturing teams in driving programs and leveraging our buying scale to our collaborative manufacturing network to optimise our competitiveness.
• Supplier Relationship Management:
• Ensure suppliers are compliant to our responsible sourcing policy.
• Negotiate value-driven agreements that are in line with defined commercial and legal requirements and subsequently manage the supplier relationships/SLA’s along with key stakeholders.
• Measure and manage the overall performance of suppliers.
• Lead the rationalization of suppliers, materials and services that meet Unilever's business requirements.
• Support service, resilience, and quality strategies with the respective supply base, supporting markets in specific requirements with the suppliers.

Business partnering:

• Responsible for price forecasting ensuring accuracy and completeness of the forecast economic assumptions and communicating timely to key business stakeholders forecast updates timely for further engagements with BG’s.
• Share market insights that support the business with accurate price forecasting, which includes market conditions, price trends and future market trends to enable proper budgeting and price forecasting.
• Work with pricing agencies like IHS, ICIS and CMACC to deliver Key insights.
• Work closely with the market procurement teams in the markets to support the launch of innovations, new product development or new supplier introduction.

Others:

• Ensure compliance with defined procurement procedures-contracting, contract management process- contract boards, strategy councils.
• Delivery of Financial KPI’s: NMI, cash.
• Resilience program implementation.
• Complexity reduction.
• Continuous process improvement, financial forecasting.
• Effective supplier communications and engagement in key programs.
• New supplier scanning.
• Material price Forecasting.
• PCR in Felxibles.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Barchelor’s degree
• Experience in packaging engineering coupled with commercial acumen. Packaging technologies and innovations.
• Experience in operations- end to end portfolio management including service and quality.
• Experience with cost models.
• Experience in Procurement transformation projects, tools, and technologies.
• Experience in Procurement or Supply Chain
• Experience in Cross Functional working and cross geography project management
• Experience and understanding of business processes and SAP systems.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (both written and spoken)

Skills

• Subject matter expertise in Flexibles
• Negotiation & communications skills
• Digital and analytics knowledge
• Financial acumen for business cases and reporting
• Strong Negotiation skills.
• Self-starter mentality
• Strong analytical capabilities (incl finance)
• Ability to interact with people from different cultures and backgrounds,
• Strong communications skills and ability to engage and influence others.
• Strong ability in managing multiple stakeholders, projects, and deadlines, with strong analytical & negotiation skills and “can do” mentality.
• Appetite for change and eagerness to collaborate with stakeholders to drive through improvements.
• Team Leadership
• Collaborative, team player who focuses on team success above self.
• Stakeholder and supplier management.

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

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. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.