Global Category Assistant Procurement Manager - Oral Care

Job Title : Global Category Assistant Procurement Manager - Oral Care

Location : Grha Unilever, BSD City, Tangerang, Indonesia

JOB PURPOSE

This role exists to ensure early procurement involvement and contribution to innovation projects, ensure innovations are supported by the right suppliers capabilities, and create a forum to bring outside in i.e. new insights, new trends and new technologies from supply market to help the business delvier growth via innovations.

You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for creating desire at scale to support company’s growth.

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Procurement business partner to the Oral Care category

• Manage Procurement deliverables for innovation projects

  • Participate in cross functional project teams for Innovation as the procurement partner

  • Manage procurement activities on innovation project networks to contribute to project OTIF

  • Lead procurement inputs for decision making at project team level in regards to supplier capabilities, supply model, pricing of materials, financial impact, resilience risks, etc.

  • Identify new raw and pack materials introduced in Innovation projects together with business partners

  • Brief Portfolio procurement on upcoming innovations and ensure supplier selection is in line with our procurement strategies, required capabilities with sufficient capacity for growth

  • Bring in ideas from suppliers and ensure early engagement of suppliers for input into innovation projects

  • Coordinate and ensure competitive prices

  • Coordinate resilience risk assessment and mitigation plan

  • Hand over the projects to the relevant BU procurement team for implementation

• Create, build and deliver savings program for Oral Care category

  • Generate material efficiency and cost savings ideas for global 5S workshops and savings target delivery

  • Manage and deliver x-portfolios and x-geographies savings program / projects

• Work with MET team to support ASA/ AMA (alternative supplier/alternative material) projects delivery for either resilience or 5S reasons  

• Support Sustainability projects e.g. better, less, no plastic agenda, GHG reduction for Oral care

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree in any major

• Fluent English speaking and writing

• 3-5 years minimum working experience in procurement, project management, or supply chain

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Working experience preferably in FMCG

• High ownership and responsibility, result and solution-oriented

• Soft skills on project management, stakeholders management, excellent communication skill, analytical skill, problem solving, self drive and resourcefulness

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors 

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Self-Management (priority setting, risk analysis, resources), take ownership & responsibility and have energy & drive 

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Be result and solution oriented. Drive for team alignment; be able to work in networks; be able to work independently. Ability to work in virtual teams 

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever. 

• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time on networking and relationship management.    Managing Partnerships and Relationships (e.g. managing the ongoing relationship to deliver value to the business)    

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Analytical skills, Supply Market Intelligence and Analysis - Collecting Relevant Information; Analyzing Supply and Demand Market Behavior and Understanding Key Cost Drivers & Price Trends. Good understanding of business economics 

At Unilever, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive/succeed. All applicants will receive fair and respectful consideration, and we actively support the growth and development of every employee.

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

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