Unilever Hiring for Assistant Global Procurement Manager Enzymes & Chelating Agents at Mumbai, India Full Time

Job title : Assistant Global Procurement Manager Enzymes & Chelating Agents

Location: Mumbai

Work level: 1D

Top Level Summary:

This role is a great opportunity for someone who wants to actively lead a portfolio that requires fundamental changes in the value chain, impacting the formulations of some of the most well-known laundry and cleaning brands in the world. This position is also a key contributor to helping deliver one of the most ambitious sustainability agendas for Unilever.

If you are passionate, works well with others, and are a master at building partnerships, then join Unilever’s HC Procurement Team!

Portfolio Context:

There has never been a more exciting time to be working in Procurement when you consider the sheer scale of what we seek to do in doubling the size of the business whilst reducing our environmental impact.

As Unilever Procurement adapts to the ever-dynamic business environment, we will need to be agile to continue our track record of delivery in contributing to the top and bottom lines. Inevitably, given the consistent and high quality of our delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to continue this rate of performance and, indeed, go over and above this standard to ensure the value provided is further enhanced across the scope of our remit.

As well as ensuring that we are best in class in delivering the basics, we also must look to the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment – reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage. And, of course, we are only half of the picture; our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We must work more closely than ever with suppliers to co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations.

This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals.

A successful procurement professional is expected to be:

• Outstanding in idea generation and forward-thinking that contributes to creating sustained competitive advantage

• Strong project management and communication skills to (co)lead his/her business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective proposals conveying value

• Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution – an eagle eye for detail

• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, set trends and is willing to lead transformations

• Genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably led business model, connected with Unilever and the business agenda.

• This position will also have direct and often exposure to Portfolio Director and Procurement HCLT. Therefore, it’s a great career opportunity/catalyst for growth

  Main Responsibilities:

• Support the negotiation and sourcing strategy for Enzymes & Chelating Agents (140M€)

• Conduct joint business development plans with key partners and manage ongoing relationships, ensuring competitiveness, service, and ability to support long-term division growth needs

• Develop best-in-class strategic sourcing and contracting strategies for commercial agreements

• Provide market-level strategy support and execution for the Home Care BG, including supply chain transformations and partnering with the market teams to address regional requirements

• Create a multi-year NMCI delivery program funnel to drive value through things like E2E value chain optimization, leveraging global benchmarking to identify areas of opportunity across markets, and supporting formulation optimization

• Provide a reliable and accurate price trend forecast that is clearly communicated to senior BG and BU stakeholders

• Support innovation management, directly engaging with R&D, incl. S&T team, influencing and securing the procurement strategy

• Being based in India, you will play a major role in supporting key GDC stakeholders

  Qualifications

• Must have procurement knowledge, preferably in the chemicals area

• Strong analytics skills, including a deep knowledge of Excel

• Experience in managing supplier relationship management and leading negotiations will be an important differentiator factor

• Project Management experience – including in R&D – highly appreciated

• Adept at working in a global virtual network with teammates and suppliers based across the world.

• Strong communication and organization skills, including the ability to communicate concisely to senior-level internal and external stakeholders.

  Travel: 10%

Job Category: Supply Chain

Job Type: Procurement Specialist

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals