Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager - Personal Care

Job Description:

Job Title: Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager - Personal Care

Work Location: Mumbai & Bangalore, India

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.

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is accountable for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to comprehend stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customers’ needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based outcomes. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our aspiration is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.

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.

Strategy & Insights is the nerve centre of our procurement operations globally. The global S&I manager works very closely with the BG PC procurement Leadership team and acts as a healthy forward-looking challenger, as well as a partner to the Personal Care team, provoking and bringing new thinking. With the following key activities:

• Facilitate creation and updating of portfolio strategies and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions.
• Guide the Insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process
• Help define and Rollout strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency and ZBB
• Derive value creation opportunities based on deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Facilitate creation and updating of portfolio strategies, and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions

• Co-guides with the sourcing team the key strategic activities within the portfolio, acting as a challenger, bringing fresh thinking and ideas and balancing historical knowledge
• Masters the newly created frameworks/playbooks on key procurement skills (Strategy, Negotiation, Contracting), acting as consultant to the portfolio, using the tools to upskill the sourcing team and as enablers for the execution.

Guide the Insights creation from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process

• Develops the data mining approach, together with the Digital Strategy team, to uncover valuable business insights that can be transformed into actionable plans
• Analyses data to seek trends, patterns, anomalies, and findings that drive useful business insights
• Translates data into insights by discovering, creating, testing, and validating hypotheses with the portfolio sourcing teams, communicating the insights and working with the sourcing teams to develop and execute strategies that leverage these insights

Helps define and Rolls out strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency, ZBB and new ways of working

• Evaluates the readiness of the Personal Care portfolio to implement transformation programs and defines the focus areas.

• Proceeds with on the ground execution of global initiatives, translating the frameworks into clear guidance and action plans ready for execution, incorporating all the nuances from the portfolio
• Expand potential local programs/best practices across the whole Personal Care Portfolio

Derives value creation opportunities based on a deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling

• Executes detailed Value Chain analysis to define opportunities to intervene/intermediate at different levels, taking into account all the different materials we source
• Is closely connected with the Markets and Industry boards, acquiring the relevant Intel to identify opportunities and creates technology/Innovation roadmaps based on Mega Trends
• Masters the Benchmarking tools and through internal and external evaluation draws conclusions to guide the sourcing team to the optimum supply base as well as assets
• Owns and drives the development of the Cost modelling for the portfolio

Conduct supply and demand analysis

• Drive the supply and demand analysis for the different services across the portfolio
• Work closely with the sourcing teams, S&I colleagues, and external entities to identify, forecast, and interpret supply- and demand-driven opportunities across the portfolio

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS :

• Over 6 years’ experience in a procurement, Portfolio Sourcing or supply chain / procurement strategy either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large complex organisation with strong portfolio and market expertise
• Consulting experience in Tier 1 consulting firms would be a plus
• Bachelor’s in engineering / supply chain management from a Top Tier University
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely
• Relevant Industry Knowledge
• Change management experience of large scale / global transformation programs is preferred
• Has a good understanding of Agile postulates, values, methodologies and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do – learn) approach
• Ability and drive to work independently and guides diverse teams, across different geographies
• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment – both F2F and virtually
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and peers effectively

LEADERSHIP:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

D&I statement:

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.