Personal Care PTAB Collaborative Manufacturing Operation Assistant Manager

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. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. 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 inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. 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.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. 

The job gives you an exciting platform to work within a multi-cultural team and grants an opportunity to work with many collaborative (contract) manufacturing (CM) partners across PTAB.

You are the ‘face’ of Unilever towards our CMs. You will be a ‘spider in the web 'for Safety, Quality, Service/ Operational matters thereby maintaining a good relationship with procurement, R&D, planning and central quality team.

You will build in-depth knowledge of the key processes and controls at our CM’s to be able to make trade-offs to improve service and cost with quality always being a ‘non-negotiable’. You will also support and play an active role in several SC manufacturing network projects.

You will ensure products manufactured in third party manufacturers meet Unilever specification, standards and regulatory requirements and provide support for OTIF new product introduction (innovation, rejuvenation, activity requests), execution management and performance improvement.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

You will work together with the PC PTAB CM Operations Lead to drive the below across PTAB:

Portfolio and Operations + Collaborative Relation Management

• Ensuring a strong professional relation with your CM & Unilever.
• Support Innovation & LTP teams in specific portfolio management programs.
• Connect with CM planning team to review service delivery of the CM.
• Monitors and reports KPIs and provide data aggregation / analysis to maintain a progress report of the CM.  

Trio Team

• Scopes & selects the CM suppliers for approved projects.
• Review project briefs and together with the rest of the trio team communicate it to the CM.
• Reviews the supply chain project compliance document prior to final launch approval and PLE session to evaluate new SKU performance.

Project Management

• Channel project discussions (innovation/ rejuvenation) with the CM to maintain a clean and fit portfolio (emphasis on following SC guidelines).
• Supports category organization in Make or Buy studies, including participation in the scoping and selection of new 3PMs.
• Responsible for Supply Chain input into IB Gate-keeping documents
• Ensures all Supply Chain aspects of a projects are delivered OTIF.

Quality Assurance

• Verify and monitor quality systems in operation at CM’s; works along with BG / Cluster Quality for quality issue resolution
• In consultation with Quality drives intensive care and non-conformance monitoring
• Notifies Cluster Quality Team potential non-conformances that may lead to a marketplace incident

Capability Development

• Developing and implementing process and design governance to enable Supply Chain business partner working together to identify to medium/longer term portfolio needs
• Developing and implementing process and design governance to enable CM operations to cover white spots in the network and developing a plan to fill the white spots
• Developing & managing a capability-based performance review of the external manufacturing portfolio
• Managing new CM capabilities into our network; as well as exit plans where appropriate

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Team player with excellent communication skills. Experience and skilled in projects
• At least 2 years of experience in Manufacturing, Supply Chain
• Good Knowledge of Process and Technology / Equipment associated with an FMCG company
• Financial awareness / cost understanding.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong business acumen & financial literacy.
• Strong strategic influencing skills.
• Stakeholder management
• A problem solver with good analytical thinking skills to be able to deal with multiple projects   
• Proficiency in English & Turkish is a must

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.