Asst. Procurement Manager – Nutrition Indonesia

Job description

Unilever is currently hiring for a Asst. Procurement Manager – Nutrition Indonesia based in Head Office, Grha Unilever, Indonesia

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

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. 

Our Procurement team is embarking on an exciting journey as we are recruiting new talent to oversee the implementation of the global strategy and operational activities pertaining to the Nutrition portfolios within Indonesia business as well as contribute to value improvement ideation, analytics, and driving efficiencies & key projects in the market. 

This is a procurement portfolio role with full extension of an end-to-end sourcing activities, understanding of raw materials value chain, supplier landscape, market & competitor benchmarking, cost modeling, and manufacturing processes that will play key role to help businesses grow sustainably and profitably. Regenerative Agriculture is also key agenda in this role. 

If you are a passionate negotiator who wants to actively lead a portfolio that requires breakthrough in the value chain impacting the most well-known Nutrition brands in Indonesia; also drives to deliver sustainability agendas for Unilever, then we would love to hear from you! 

Main Responsibilities

·  Create and implement end-to-end sourcing strategies for Nutrition portfolios in line with  Unilever’s business agenda to deliver high growth performance both topline and bottom-line.
·  Lead the execution of Procurement strategies and all key initiatives related with Superior availability (resilience), Superior Value (cash and cost competitiveness/saving), Quality of materials, Innovations, Sustainability, and Responsible Sourcing Policies.
·  Manage accountably of the materials price forecasting processes through Procurement’s forecasting platform and deliver high forecast accuracy.
·  Manage full cycle of negotiation to contracting for raw materials; Pre-negotiation/tender preparation, negotiation/tender event, final awarding & allocation, and contracting.
·  Supplier management through building a strong partnership program to ensure reliable supply according to agreed quality and service with compliance to the Responsible Sourcing Policies.
·  Join strategy by working closely and collaboratively with Global Buyer for relevant materials to define the right approaches and strategies for business unit nutrition Indonesia.
·  Execute and implement the Global Procurement Business Group’s Initiatives and Strategies related with Procurement Light House Strategy into the country Indonesia.
·  Bring external insight in through market & competitor benchmarking analytic and support to CRM/PRM programs.
·  Support business strategies and agendas through working collaboratively with cross function e.g. Marketing, R&D, Planning, Sourcing Unit, and Finance) to deliver key Projects.
·  Contribute on design and implementation of the Regenerative Agriculture agenda for the relevant crops for Indonesia 
·  Support other procurement related day-to-day activities within the scope to ensure smooth and continuous operations.

KEY DELIVERABLES

·  Cost, cash, service
·  Sustainable sourcing, Regenerative Agriculture
·  Materials & feedstock sourcing strategy
·  Contracting, compliance and portfolio management
·  Partnership and supplier management
·  Business & stakeholder engagement

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

·  Minimum bachelor’s degree in any field, preferred from commerce or engineering.
·  Prior minimum 2 years work experience in Procurement would be an advantage.
·  Agility as a talent catalyst and must have a strong sense of purpose and are passionate about leading from within to bring out the best in others!
·  A self-starting, curious, and a quick learner and is capable to work under high-pace, high-pressure environment.
·  Understand a commodities markets, the trends, and or every insight that are influences in order to create a right sourcing strategy.
·  Ability to adapt and communicate with multi type of stakeholders both internal and external in different environment.
·  Willing to work in agile with mobile condition for business purpose e.g. field visit, sources development, and crisis management. 
·  Good understanding and passion towards Sustainability, Regenerative Agriculture, supply chain knowledge, and processing technologies.

Skill

·  Strong Analytical, Interpretation and Communication skills: data and information analysis and business presentation.
·  Strong negotiation skills with passion of driving a superior value for business to grow competitively, and Excellent crisis and project management.
·  Digital and analytics knowledge, especially a dept use in Power BI, Microsoft Excel, and other analytic tools e.g. Buyers Console.
·  Comfortable in using IT tools such as Microsoft Office Suite, SAP, Aravo, DCIW (invoice management systems), iCAT (contract management systems), PowerApps, SRS (savings reporting tool), PLM (spec database), Velocity (vendor registration), etc.

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.

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