Procurement Officer (Capex and MRO)

Job description

Unilever's mission is to add vitality to life. We meet every day needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, household and personal care products. Our purpose is to meet the everyday needs of people everywhere – to anticipate the aspirations of our consumers and customers and to respond creatively and competitively with branded products and services, which raise the quality of life.

Unilever is looking for a Procurement Officer (Capex and MRO) to be based in the manufacturing unit in Helsingborg

You will be reporting to the Capex Cluster Procurement Manager based in Brussels and become part of a truly European team. We offer a dynamic and fun workplace with a Performance Culture, to match and exceed the expectations of our Consumers and Customers. If you enjoy the thought of working for an international consumer products company and share the passion we have for our brands and our customers, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

Procurement of Capex and MRO (Maintenance Repair and Operations) as well as Technical Services related spend. The spend managed by the candidate will be spread across various locations in the cluster, which includes all six manufacturing units in the Nordics.

· -Act as first point of contact for the Business and represent Capex and MRO.

· -Develop, implement and drive procurement strategies which support the overall Unilever strategy and meet both current business and category demands and future needs

· -Ensure timely inputs to global and regional project development and on-time and in-full project execution

· -Implement strategic sourcing agreements

· -Identify opportunities to standardize purchasing requirements

· -Liaise closely with existing suppliers on a day-to-day basis and identify new suppliers

· -Prepare and manage the supplier selection process

· -Finalize commercial agreements together with the Legal Counsel and develop and monitor supplier service levels

· -Identify ways to reduce costs, implement and report results

· -Manage and maintain contracts

Requirements:

· -Strong professional procurement skills

· -Project Management experience

· -Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· -Convincing communicator with high drive on stakeholder and people engagement

· -Comfortable working independent and virtually

· -Strong executer with performance oriented focus

· -Fluent in English (fluency in a Nordic language is an advantage).

· -Entrepreneurial and forward thinking

· -Comfortable interacting with internal customers, partners and suppliers as well

· -Excellent proficiency in MS Office (Excel in particular).

To Apply:

For questions about the application process, please contact Unilever Enterprise Support, HR Services, at ************@*******.** .

Please submit your application in English at our website www.unilever.se/careers as soon as possible, but by 2015-12-14 at the latest.

Please observe that there will be an ongoing screening process and the position might be filled before last application date.