Senior Executive / Asst Manager -Procurement Strategy & Insights – Palm & Surfactants (RM)

Job Title: Senior Executive / Asst Manager -Procurement Strategy & Insights – Palm & Surfactants (RM)

Work Location: Mumbai HO, India

Function: Procurement, Supply Chain

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain’s 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’re 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 ‘Procurement with Purpose’ 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.

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is serving as the nerve center 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. With vision of Translating Knowledge & Data into Future Fit Procurement Strategy & Insights, this team is responsible for:  

Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

• on 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

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

• Drive strategy creation across Palm & Surfactants portfolios while working closely with the BGs

• Support value creation opportunities based on a deep market expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling

• Support negotiations with S&I tools such as cost modeling, GAP program, market insights

• Procurement Market Intelligence for RM, focusing on external insights, competition benchmarking and generating new insights.

• Drive S&I initiatives for Palm & Surfactantsteam

• Support key Market Intelligence studies & Backward integration studies and capability build with the portfolio buyers

• Support the Digitization journey by helping design and implement various projects in Palm & Surfactants

KEY INTERACTIONS

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Senior Executive - will interface with the following stakeholders:

• Palm & Surfactants Portfolio Assistant managers, Managers, & Procurement Director 

• Global & Market sourcing teams

• Global Procurement Strategy & Insights - BG Managers

• LHS Squads

• Industry and Insights resources

• Agency partners

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Leads the procurement strategy creation with the Palm & Surfactants portfolios while working closely with various BGs and S&I teams

• Work with buyers to calculate and approve savings projects according with buying competitiveness methodology.

• Effectively identifies Savings through Procurement market Intelligence and drives them for implementation.

• Uses the S&I tools effectively to drive value in negotiations

• Analyses data to seek trends, patterns, anomalies, and findings that drive useful business insights  

• With a continuous improvement mindset, leverage the existing tools and responsible for the iteration plan 

• Closely connected with the Markets and Industry boards, acquiring the relevant intelligence to identify opportunities and creates roadmaps based on promising opportunities  

• Lead the Insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process

• Executes detailed Value Chain and market analysis to define opportunities to intervene/intermediate at different levels, considering all the different materials and services we source

BUSINESS BEHAVIORS 

• Strategic & Systemic Thinking

• Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills 

• Strong Communication skills 

• High Initiative, Quick Learner and Self-Starter 

• Stakeholder management skills

• High Growth mindset & Consumer Love 

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Preferred over 2+ years’ experience in a Procurement / Supply Chain roles either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large complex organisation with strong portfolio and market expertise with any Undergraduate bachelor’s in technology/engineering. Consulting experience would be a plus  

• Ability to work in diverse teams & Complex value chain portfolio, across different geographies 

• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment – both F2F and virtually  

• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills in order to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely