Job Description

Job Title: Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Home Care Location: 100VE or Rotterdam PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization for each BG to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. This team is responsible for:

• Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams
• Creating and implementing data-driven decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes
• Developing and enabling procurement strategies with respective network VPs and portfolio and market teams based on strategic insights
• Identifying, scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams
• Facilitating rapid learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people

JOB PURPOSE

• To be a healthy forward-looking challenger, as well as a partner to the UPLT & BG Leads, provoking and bringing new thinking. With the following key activities:
• Lead the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with UPLT, BG Leads, Head of S&I and Procurement Finance.
• Facilitate creation and updating of BG / portfolio strategies and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions.
• Lead 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 Resilience 2.0, 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
• Conduct supply and demand analysis, in collaboration with the portfolio sourcing teams\xe2\x80\x99
• Innovate! Create! Change the way we work and the way we think!

RESPONSIBILITIES Lead the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with UPLT, BG Leads, Head of S&I and head of Procurement Finance.

• Transformation projects agenda in S&I works across several portfolios, and closely co-ordinated with Procurement Finance, BW PLT. Co-leads the program and its components, lead stakeholder conversations and create analytics based insights for opportunities.
• Scout newest market trend and technology of Procurement & Supply Chain functions in multi-industries, and convert into new transformation projects as new capability building into the organization.
• Develop structured 7 Steps strategic sourcing assessment and expertise improvement programs by Procurement portoflios.
• Co-ordinate closely with Head of S&I, and Transformation projects leads

Lead 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

Lead and define and Rolls out strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency, ZBB and new ways of working globally for all portfolios and markets 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 Packaging 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

Use all above to develop the strategies that address the big hairy issues and link the Lighthouse solutions through innovative thinking. ALL ABOUT YOU LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

• Strategic, Systemic Thinking & Entrepreneurial
• Strong Talent catalyst to bring the best out of people
• Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills
• High Growth mindset & Consumer Love
• Strong Communication & Influencing skills
• High Initiative, Quick Learner and Self-Starter

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Relevant experience in a Procurement or Supply Chain roles 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
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Prefer location in Rotterdam / UK
• Change management experience of large scale / global transformation programs is preferred
• Has a good understanding of Agile principles, values, methodologies and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do \xe2\x80\x93 learn) approach
• Ability and drive to work independently and lead diverse teams, across different geographies
• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment \xe2\x80\x93 both F2F and virtually
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and peers effectively
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and story-telling skills in order to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely

NOTES About Unilever Unilever is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry\xe2\x80\x99s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That\xe2\x80\x99s why our purpose is \xe2\x80\x98to make sustainable living commonplace\xe2\x80\x99
Location In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.
What We Offer Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You\xe2\x80\x99ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience. To find out more, including more information about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here. Recruitment Fraud Cyber criminals advertise fake job adverts with prestigious employers as a way of stealing information or even defrauding individuals out of money. In the most sophisticated cases, they will set up fake websites, which have a similar address to companies like Unilever. They even conduct fake telephone interviews and then offer candidates a role with the proviso they pay a fee for background checks or to cover work visa costs. These types of attacks are becoming more common as more people are looking for employment in the economic climate.
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