Background & Purpose of the Job

This role supports the North America Cooking Aids and Mini Meals (CAMM) business, located in Hoboken, NJ. It reports to the CAMM Network Planning Manager. The Strategic Planner is an important player for the category since they will develop the long-term Supply Chain strategies to create value for the category within the existing and future portfolios.

The Strategic Planner will lead NA long term capacity planning for the Independence, Lerma, Mexico Unilever factories and several collaborative manufacturing partners, and they will implement sourcing changes for those factories.  This person will closely collaborate with LATAM teams on long-term planning of Lerma, Mexico factories. They will determine the best portfolio of products to run at each site while developing sound business cases to support category growth, savings delivery, and service improvement following the strategic principles and ensuring the optimal E2E network design. In addition, they will manage sourcing change projects, evaluate network constraints (i.e. – materials), identify improvement opportunities, review capex and technology needs, identify complexity reduction initiatives, and strategic project scoping and execution—all towards an optimal network design and gross margin.

This person will work as part of the Foods supply chain sourcing for Cooking Aids and Mini Meals (Knorr, Lipton Soups, Bovril, Oxo, and Food Solutions brands) and will closely interact with Brand, Supply/Demand Planning, Factory Teams, Finance, Procurement and R&D to deliver the category business targets. They will also lead the charge on major supply chain sourcing decisions with the senior stakeholders in supply chain leadership forums.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

·You’re a strategy guru: You not only understand what the sourcing network needs to be today, but more importantly what it needs to be tomorrow.  You can balance multiple tradeoffs and priorities to arrive at the best solution for Unilever.

·You’re a dot connector: You can see the impact of process choices on down-stream and up-stream activities in the end-to-end supply chain.

·You love to win, and have fun doing it: We make big choices on investments and capital that have impact for years down the road. You must be bold in the recommendations, always working with a win-win mind-set. 

·You’re a changemaker:Some of the things that work today, will not work in the future. You are often the first to recognize the strategy of the future and will need to bring others along the journey.

Key Responsibilities

·Lead the long term (+1Yr to +3Yrs) capacity planning for Independence and several collaborative manufacturers and collaborate with the LATAM team on the long term capacity planning for Lerma, Mexico factories through supply chain modeling

·Project management and implementation of sourcing changes for those factories

·Brainstorm, develop, and lead project ideas, including business case analysis, defining capex, and cost savings for project execution through your partner teams (engineering, finance, etc.)

·Perform capacity modeling for ancillary supply chain network (materials, logistics, etc.) using optimization and analytical techniques

·Support complexity reduction and savings in product portfolio and overall network

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Required

·Bachelor’s Degree in a related field with strong analytical skills

·3 or more years combined experience in any of the following areas: Supply Chain planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, R&D and/or Operations Research

·Very strong Excel and data analytics capabilities

·Clear demonstration of leadership, team commitment and influencing others without authority

·Cross functional business process, commercial, and financial acumen

·Communication abilities to all levels of the organization

Preferred

·Project or innovation management and MS Project know-how

·Strong presentation and public speaking capabilities

·Experience writing and reviewing project business cases and/or technical reports

·Ability to manage competing priorities through self-prioritization

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $69,360 to $104,040. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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