Procurement Coordinator

Unilever is currently hiring for Procurement Coordinator

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. 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

This position provides strategic and analytical support to the procurement activities for 3rd Party manufacturing operations for the Foods Business Group as well as participation in the innovation projects planned to be launched in 3rd party manufacturers.

This includes but is not limited to executing small, medium and large sourcing activities with a focus on data retrieval and analysis, market research, negotiation and relationship with suppliers, benchmarking activities, managing contracts, work in innovations, savings and improvement initiatives.

The team involved must collaborate with the various functions throughout Unilever organization, such as R&D, Planning, Finance, Brand and other procurement or supply chain groups in the diverse procurement activities.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

3PM Foods Procurement activities:

• Participation in the sourcing and bid process, supplier selection, negotiation of prices, terms and conditions, awards and contract management.
• Support and participation in the design of the Procurement Strategies.
• Manage and control the contracts of the incumbent suppliers.
• Relationship with the suppliers (meetings, evaluation, scorecard, Partner to Win).
• Develop improvement projects to delivery savings, cash, cost avoidance and service level improvements.
• Participation in innovative projects, representing procurement in the extended team.
• Baseline analysis, and understanding of the current cost, prices and total spending.
• Special Projects.
• Control of the internal KPIs such as VIP, Cash, Cost Avoidance, USQS, etc.

Challenges:

• Work quickly with great accuracy.
• Be self-directed in researching market trends, benchmarking & intelligence.
• Priority and escalate issues that may affect key business objectives.
• Negotiation with suppliers and communication skills.
• Understanding of operations and business requirements.
• Working cross-functionally across teams with varying priorities.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

 Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree completed in Supply Chain/Logistic, Business, Sciences, Engineering.
• General business experience in any Supply Chain function (Procurement, Logistics, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Management, Planning).
• Procurement and buying/strategic experience.
• Data analytics/project management skills. 
• Fluent in both written and spoken English.

Skills

• Drive Change Management initiatives, intelligent risk taking while managing risk, managerial courage and willingness to make hard, fact-based decisions - comfortable with ambiguity.
• Bias for action.
• Maintain, build, and grow supplier relationships, cultural sensitivity/communication/global thinking.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, team building, delegation, and communication skills.
• Excellent business acumen - analytical and quantitative skills.
• Managing change - Develops a shared vision and strategy for change.
• Delivers change whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects. Tenacious in the pursuit of changing goals.
• Problem solving & decision making - Defines problems, systematically gathers and analyses data, identifies cause & effects and establishes root causes & achievable solutions. Make good and timely decisions.
• Drive for results - Is passionate about and perseveres in the pursuit of challenging stretch goals. Demonstrates energy, drive and enthusiasm when striving to accomplish and improve results.

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.

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.