Assistant Procurement Manager - Foods Ingredients

Job description

EXPECTED WORK

Overall:

Establish the procurement capability for Unilever Nutrition business, support leading end to end procurement activities, including:

Material Strategy:

·  Support in building global sourcing strategy for all chemicals, clearly identifying the market trends in immediate and related Foods Ingredients markets.
·  Drive alignment on the sourcing strategies, and support for successful execution from all key stakeholders across ranks in Business Groups, Business Units, R&D, Supply Chain and Procurement teams.
·  Identify risks to the business and prepare resilience plans to overcome them.
·  Identify newer opportunities and models of sourcing for the business: e.g. Joint buying, upstream buying, buy to sell, value chain intervention etc.

Portfolio Management:

·  Develop short/mid-term negotiation strategies.
·  Follow dynamically changing market conditions, understand direct and indirect factors influencing supply, demand and prices and develop a view of future markets trends for the business.
·  Deep understanding of material value chains to unbundle and optimize delivered costs through lean principles, logistics optimization projects and remove mid-layer initiatives
·  Full contracting cycle for the materials: from creation and administration of Tenders to the negotiation and closure of contract
·  Create/ collaborate and approve sourcing contracts in the Contract Lifecycle Management system on time in full
·  Use Smart Buying tools for extracting greater value: eTender, cost-plus/ market-minus pricing mechanisms, nego-factory, etc.
·  Compliance of materials with Unilever specifications, through approvals granted by R&D teams
·  Continuously scans the market to benchmark Unilever’s performance vs. competition
·  Support in driving the core procurement agenda on competitive buying, savings, innovation, quality, service, and sustainability.

Supplier Management:

·  Nurture and manage supplier relationships to ensure Unilever gets top priority in service, quality, cash, and cost of materials
·  Measure and manage overall performance of suppliers while leading several strategic relationships
·  Manage all contracting discussions with the suppliers, including RFQ, negotiations, compliances, etc.
·  Execute legal contracts with suppliers in the form of Unilever Purchase Agreement and Commercial Terms Contract (and where required, also Special Terms Contracts)
·  Manage the Compliance of suppliers and sources on Unilever Supplier Qualification System (Aravo): Responsible Sourcing Policy compliance and Quality Assessment compliance
·  Engage and lead the discussions with PTW, and JBDP suppliers to identify opportunities on value generation, sustainability, and resilience.

Business engagement:

·  Work closely with Business Groups & Business Units to identify key initiatives, its objectives and deliverables and drive the agenda through supplier partnerships.
·  Understand the business strategy, short- and long-term volume forecasts for the materials to incorporate these inputs in the strategy to make it sharper and more effective
·  Give clear forecasts to the business based on market trends and analysis of factors affecting the market: provide rationale, commentary, and analysis to support forecasts
·  Provide support to Business Groups & Business Units for projects run by them on rolling out innovation, any product change/ formulation change, change in supply chain strategy/ sourcing unit relocation, processing configurations, demand forecast change, etc.
·  Manage supplies at the time of any failure on the ground (crisis management) to keep SUs running always, lead and manage effective on time communication/ updates to stakeholders
·  Team & cross functional collaboration:
·  Lead strategic projects in the portfolio, through cross functional teams including BG/BU, R&D, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Procurement, etc.
·  Closely liaise with S&I, Finance, R&D teams to achieve common goals & KPIs
·  Lead few key strategic initiatives on behalf of the overall team.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Qualifications :

·  Bachelor’s degree or above.
·  Procurement experience with 3 years, with PI sourcing experience a plus.
·  Multinational experience a plus
·  Strong business sense
·  Strong communication skill

Competencies :

·  Strong leadership skills. Team worker. High SOL attributes
·  Logical thinking and data sensitive.
·  Fluent in English.

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