Job Title: Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager - Packaging, Global Procurement
Schedule: Full-time
Location: India
Function: Procurement, Supply Chain
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
ABOUT UNILEVER
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places consumers at the heart of everything we do: Brighten everyday life for all. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior brands. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational aspiration centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. 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.
ABOUT PROCUREMENT
Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 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 stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customers’ 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 outcomes. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our aspiration is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.
Material Procurement Strategy & Insights:
Material strategy and insight team directly reports to the Material VP and has a dotted line report to the Head of Procurement strategy director. This team is responsible for deploying Strategy and Insight team capabilities into the material team. The Procurement central Insights Team serving as the nerve center of the Unilever global procurement organization. This team is responsible for enabling the procurement organization to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. Key responsibilities include:
- 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 results 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. Key activities include:
- Facilitating the creation and updating of portfolio strategies and delivering analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting, applying expertise and newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions.
- Managing the insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process.
- Helping define and roll out strategic transformation programs using digital tools.
- Deriving value creation opportunities based on deep value chain expertise, supplier, competitor, and industry insights, as well as benchmarking and should cost modeling.
- Conducting supply and demand analysis in collaboration with the portfolio sourcing teams
- Drive competitive buying thorough PMI for packaging.
- Support Joy of forecasting and change management.
- Working closely with the team on identifying VCI opportunities and driving execution support.
Key Interactions:
The Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager will interface with the following stakeholders:
- 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 Responsibilities:
- Standardized Processes: Create and implement standardized processes and data-driven solutions to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes.
- Procurement Strategies: Develop and enable procurement strategies with respective network VPs and portfolio and market teams based on strategic insights.
- Performance Metrics: Monitor and report on key performance metrics to ensure procurement strategies are delivering the desired outcomes.
- Packaging Innovation: Control initiatives to develop and implement innovative packaging solutions that align with sustainability goals and market trends.
- Market Insights: Conduct market research and competitive benchmarking to stay updated on the latest packaging trends and technologies.
- Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities for cost savings in packaging procurement without compromising quality or performance.
- Define S&I Agenda: Define the S&I agenda in BG/material team along with BG/material LT, including procurement strategy development and implementation.
- PMI Coverage and Insights: Drive PMI coverage, insights, interventions, and business adoption.
- Market Intelligence: Orchestrate external market intelligence needs for BG/Po1.
- Data Analytics Capability: Build transformational internal and external data analytics capability for BG/Po1.
- Complexity Reduction: Drive complexity reduction and design policy implementation.
- Negotiation Support: Plan and support portfolio negotiation board/forum.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience in procurement, supply chain management, or a related field, with a focus on packaging.
- Skills: Strong analytical skills, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of procurement processes, supplier management, and market trends in packaging.
- Leadership: Strong leadership, high pro-activeness in bringing positive changes, inspiring the existing status quo, and strong strategic thinking and influencing skills.
Why Join Us:
- Impact: Be part of a team that is driving significant change and innovation in procurement.
- Growth: Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Culture: A collaborative and inclusive work environment that values diversity and innovation.
(D&I statement):
Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, 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
How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and cover letters.
