Asst Procurement Manager: HC Chemicals

EXTERNAL JOB POSTING

Job Title: Asst Procurement Manager: HC Chemicals

Job Function: Procurement- Supply Chain

Work Location: Mumbai HO

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CATEGORY OR FUNCTION INTRODUCTION

On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. Our Vision is to double the size of the business, while reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact.

Within Procurement, our goal is to attract and develop great people who want to achieve great successes within and for Unilever as a whole.

We aim to attract people with a passion for procurement done the right way who can apply their skills and expertise to enhance the teams they operate within, and who can grow and develop to reach their full potential.

We offer every opportunity for individuals to reach their full potential; developing them as necessary and providing the chance to shine across the function to ensure we maintain an effective talent pipeline, built on diversity of thought, able to step up to leadership opportunities as the need arises across the business.

We aim to ensure that we have the right people in the right roles across the function to drive future success and ensure we reach the objectives necessary to deliver Unilever s vision.

A successful procurement professional is expected to be:

• Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.
• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to guide, follow or get out of the way while working on operations role.
• Strong communication skills with internal as well as external stakeholders
• Exceptional execution is key to ensure ambitious ideas are progressed fast towards implementation
• Outstanding in pushing ideas that are forward thinking and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• Able to understand the business urgency and able to push the agenda with different stakeholders to gather the inputs: R&D, Supply Chain, Suppliers, Finance teams etc.
• Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.

Main Job Purpose:

The main accountability of the role is to manage Operations of globally/locally bought materials, business stakeholders (brand teams, functional teams e. g. R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, MET), manage relationship with the India based suppliers, deliver towards Chemicals savings and in turn contribute to South Asia cost savings delivery. Directly responsible for managing Procurement Operations for HC materials.

Buying Better (Cost and Cash)

• Guide Delivery of savings target across for the HC materials under the portfolio
• Identify and execute cash opportunities, as per delivery targets
• Contract Management with India/Global Suppliers
• To support in delivering the Procurement Business Plans e. g. Supplier Park, Localization, Purple Carbon etc.
• Market assessment and negotiations (wherever applicable)
• Managing the forecast of materials with the global buyers and communication to local finance teams for business cycles.

Digitization

• Support in delivering Digital payment (e-Invoicing/ Trade shift/ Dynamic Bill discounting) and GST compliance
• Support in delivering digital programs and initiatives as per the simplification programs

Operational Excellence

• Drive and deliver 100% service with Agility
• Close monitoring of Supplier performance KPIs via MIS
• Drive Payment On Time and relationship management
• Close working with Planner, Unit SCMs and Vendors

Sustainability

• Support delivery of the Sustainability pillar within the Chemicals Procurement Strategy.

Key Accountabilities:

• The role requires deep knowledge of Procurement Operations and high level of business interaction, supplier relationships to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs.
• The role therefore needs a person who is strong in Operations, relationship management, problem solving, multitasker, focused on driving the business goals and KPIs/targets.
• Consolidating / coordinating & driving key projects / pillars on behalf of the team . Eg: Savings / Localisation / resilience / Quality / Compliance etc.
• Leading the material operations for India which includes a high focus on cost, quality, and service.
• Work with planning team to ensure that material forecast volumes are shared with the buyers in advance for their contract negotiations.
• Ensuring contracts are entered in the system by buyers on time, contracts review before entering in iCAT, SOBs are updated and factories are communicated in time about price changes.
• Seamless communication with factories and suppliers to ensure timely schedules are shared with suppliers and material reaches factories in time without any service issues.
• Understanding plan changes/ materials under stress by attending scheduled CMRP calls to ensure alternate options are triggered in time to ensure timely material connectivity.
• Regular review with suppliers on their performance: service and quality and giving them timely feedback for corrections.
• Regular SOB compliance review with factories to ensure minimal variation in the actually delivered qualities versus allocations for key material and vendors.
• Ensuring inventory for materials remain under control (as per the aligned targets) through a regular review with factories.
• Ensuring a regular review of quality incidents and giving regular feedback to vendors to improve their quality.
• Developing strategic relationship with key business partners like factories, planning, SUIT, suppliers etc.
• Supplier relationships management to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs.
• Summarizing the output of the full procurement cycle for HC with a summary at portfolio level for senior stakeholders review.
• Guide some of the strategic pillars on behalf of the team as per the alignment with the Line Manager.

Challenges:

Establishing effective relationships with the internal customers, Procurement Managers, R&D, SUIT, Finance, Quality and other stakeholders) as well as external partners (Suppliers) is key to the delivery.

• This role would require coordination with different raw material buyers and other stakeholders: Working across organizational and cultural boundaries independently without direct hierarchical control of resources.
• Candidate should be at minimum a science graduate with 5+ years of experience in Procurement/ Procurement Operations/Supply Chain Planning/Operations preferably within FMCG
• University degree and Supply Chain exposure is preferred
• Project management skills.

Skills / Competencies

• Ability to work in a hugely diverse, cross cultural business environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Self-reliant with the ability to work independently
• Problem solving skills to analyse the situation & take decisions to support the business needs.
• Must be a self-starter with strong Bias for Action, Accountability & responsibility and Growth Mindset
• Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.
• Influencing others and holding them accountable for their actions.
• Attention to details is key for this role.
• Relationship management both external and internal
• Must be good in communications - as interaction is at the heart of this role.
• Good IT skills particularly in Excel to deliver Data Gathering, Benchmarking, Cost Models.

Experience Required:

• > 5 years of work experience in a Procurement/ Supply Chain / Manufacturing.

Travel:

• Low levels (~25%).

Reporting Channel:

• Procurement Director S. Asia Sr Procurement Manager- Chemicals HC Assistant Procurement Manager - Chemical Procurement (Market)

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 on the basis of 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