Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Procurement Strategy & Insights Assistant Manager - Packaging, Global Procurement

Manager level: WL1D

Schedule: Full time

Location: India

Function: Procurement, Supply Chain

Travel: Yes, 10% of time

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain\xe2\x80\x99s family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 50,000 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\xe2\x80\x99re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

With over 1400 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 \xe2\x80\x98Procurement with Purpose\xe2\x80\x99 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.

Schaffhausen and Singapore are Procurement\xe2\x80\x99s global hubs for strategy & insights, purpose & partnerships, and the global sourcing teams, which integrate with the market teams around the globe.

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is a newly formed team, serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever global procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization 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 standardized processes and 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, as well as a partner to the Packaging sourcing team, provoking and bringing new thinking. With the following key activities:

• Facilitate creation and updating of portfolio strategies and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions.
• Lead the Insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process
• Help define and Rollout strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency and ZBB
• 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 Assistant Manager will interface with the following stakeholders:

• Head of Global Procurement Strategy & Insights
• Packaging Procurement Leadership team
• Packaging Procurement Director & LT
• Global and Market sourcing teams
• Procurement Finance Team
• Head of Supplier Operations, Sourcing Operations and team
• Key Suppliers and agencies/partners
• Industry and insights resources

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

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

• Co-leads with the sourcing team the key strategic activities within the portfolio, acting as a challenger, bringing fresh thinking and ideas and balancing historical knowledge
• Masters the newly created frameworks/playbooks on key procurement skills (Strategy, Negotiation, Contracting), acting as consultant to the portfolio, using the tools to upskill the sourcing team and as enablers for the execution.

Lead the 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

Helps define and Rolls out strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency, ZBB and new ways of working

• Evaluates the readiness of the Packaging portfolio to implement transformation programs and defines the focus areas.

• Proceeds with on the ground execution of global initiatives, translating the frameworks into clear guidance and action plans ready for execution, incorporating all the nuances from the Packaging portfolio
• Expand potential local programs/best practices across the whole Packaging Portfolio

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
• Owns and drives the development of the Cost modelling for the portfolio

Conduct supply and demand analysis

• Drive the supply and demand analysis for the different services across the portfolio
• Work closely with the sourcing teams, S&I colleagues, and external entities to identify, forecast, and interpret supply- and demand-driven opportunities across the portfolio

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

• Strategic, Systemic Thinking & Entrepreneurial
• Strong Talent catalyst to bring the best out of people
• 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

• Over 4 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a procurement, Packaging Sourcing or Development role 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
• Packaging Industry Knowledge
• Change management experience of large scale / global transformation programs is preferred
• Has a good understanding of Agile principles, values, methodologies and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do \xe2\x80\x93 learn) approach
• Ability and drive to work independently and lead diverse teams, across different geographies
• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment \xe2\x80\x93 both F2F and virtually
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and peers effectively
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills in order to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely

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