Procurement Specialist/采购专员

Job description

EXPECTED WORK

Overall:

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

Portfolio Management:

·  As a member of IC BU procurement team, support the development and lead the implementation of procurement strategy in a diverse and complex portfolio. Deep understanding of material value chains to unbundle and optimize delivered costs.
·  Lead ice cream ingredients resilience plan and localization strategy.
·  Delivering of financial targets via excellent market understanding, strategy implementations and negotiation skills.
·  Implement global negotiation results and drive quick alternative supplier development when needed to maximize value and increase resilience.
·  Ensure compliance of Responsible Sourcing Policy, Contracting, Quality and service in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
·  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:

·  Lead supplier relationships and understand their capabilities to develop long term supplier strategies and partnerships that help deliver our short-, mid- and long-term business objectives. And 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 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 ice cream collaborative manufacturers and CM projects for IC finished goods buying.

Business engagement:

·  Work closely with Business Groups & Business Units to identify key initiatives, its objectives and deliverables and drive the agenda through supplier partnerships.
·  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.

Experience required:

·  Bachelor’s degree or above.
·  At least 2 years experience in procurement or SC
·  Previous experience in FMCG / Food / Ice Cream, or experience in commercial function or consultancy, will be a plus. Ability to learn quickly a must.

Key Skills:

·  Outstanding communication skills, ability to engage and influence others internally and externally, good negotiation skill will be a plus.
·  Result and solution oriented, be able to solve (unexpected) problems (at short notice).
·  Logical thinking and data sensitive, analytics knowledge will be a plus.
·  Fluent in English and Chinese.

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.