Job Description

Job Title - VMO Strategy & Planning - Assistant Manager

Location - Bangalore

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann\xe2\x80\x99s, Lipton, Wall\xe2\x80\x99s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry\xe2\x80\x99s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That\xe2\x80\x99s why our purpose is \xe2\x80\x98to make sustainable living commonplace\xe2\x80\x99.

Purpose

Execute the VMO Strategy & Planning activities and initiatives to ensure:

Strategy-led demand management and planning for supplier investments

Support and develop the Vendor Management Office (VMO) governance model for effective coordination of internal and external supplier activities across Unilever\xe2\x80\x99s current and future HR, Finance, IT, Facilities, and business process supplier landscape

Business Context

The UniOps organisation provides the resilient digital platform for the Unilever business. UniOps spends more than \xe2\x82\xac1B each year with external vendors, and the quality and value of vendor services are critical to the success of Unilever.

The Vendor Management Office (VMO) is a new agile, cross-functional organisation that will transform the way that UniOps manages suppliers and the value we gain from our supplier spend. The VMO will:

Coordinate the change to a new proactive operating model, building collaboration across functions to maximize value from our supplier spend.

Be the engine that amplifies delivery of value from a new Collaborative Procurement Model that plans supplier decisions much further ahead, across whole areas of spend rather than individual contracts, and ensures best alignment with our business strategies.

Assure the performance and compliance of suppliers and will ensure that we have the right data to deliver ever more value year on year.

Provide end-to-end orchestration, and governance of vendor management activities across UniOps.

Objectives

Proactive, strategy-led planning of supplier investments, aligned consistently across UniOps, coordinated in a collaborative model with Procurement and stakeholders.

Data and analytics for continuous improvement in the value that UniOps gains from supplier spend.

Sustained performance and compliance of supplier contracts at best-in-class industry levels.

Robust and proactive governance, with resources prioritised against highest value activities.

Key Accountabilities

Enable the execution of the VMO Strategy and Planning activities and initiatives in collaboration with VMO leads, service lines and other functional teams.

Execute a model for proactive and robust capture of the pipeline of Service Line demand across UniOps for validation, and reconciliation.

Forecast and model spend for the demand pipeline, partnering with Service Lines and Finance, to provide granular visibility and to enable strategic prioritisation across portfolios and optimal budgetary decisions.

End-to-end orchestration of VMO governance for internal and external supplier activities, in an effective collaborative model that ensures effective prioritisation and decision making.

Support the VMO governance framework, including executive steering groups, strategic reviews, business, operational and project reviews.

Continuous E2E improvement and maturity of the VMO governance model, in partnership with business, service lines, and procurement stakeholders, informed by learnings, process measures, and evolving business needs.

About You

A results-driven, business focused professional with a passion for working strategically.

Strong collaborative working attitude with key stakeholders and business partners

Proven governance track record across a complex stakeholder landscape, with a demonstrated ability to drive improvement in maturity over time.

Proven experience and functional knowledge in service delivery and the management of outsourced and third-party contracts, with a good understanding of vendor performance and relationship management.

Strong negotiating skills, with the ability to gain agreement across competing priorities.

Solid familiarity with service governance processes, with a track record of driving improvement over time.

Strong analytical and financial expertise, with attention to detail while retaining focus on broader strategy.

Ability to grow effective relationships across a complex internal and external stakeholder landscape, and to hold others accountable, including peers and senior leadership.

Excellent (verbal and written) communication skills for influence up to C-level.

Knowledge of FMCG and Supply Chain processes an advantage.

Behaviours

Candidates would be required to demonstrate the Unilever Standards of Leadership & live the Values through showing the following behaviours:

A Passion for High Performance through Accountability - Strive for high quality and success, hold yourself and others accountable for decisions. Challenging the status quo, be bold & passionate about value, think outside of the box and be keen to improve.

Demonstrate Consumer Love through a Customer First approach - Think about our customers constantly and strive to providing the best services and experiences.

Be a Talent Catalyst through Collaboration - Work in an openly creative culture, where all ideas are welcome, encouraging innovation and transparency.

Show Agility through Empowerment - Always be one step ahead, embrace change and challenges, initiate solutions and make decisions in good faith.

Reports

The role will support the VMO strategy, planning and compliance teams, responsible for demand management, planning, data and analytic capabilities, and supplier obligation management plus end-to-end design and orchestration of VMO governance model

Interfaces

Service Lines

Global Procurement

Supplier Operations

Finance

Performance Hub / Data & Analytics functions

Required

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree

Preferred

Masters or Advanced Business Degree

Professional Certifications in process improvement, Agile.

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