Your responsibilities

• Sourcing/portfolio strategy
• · Execution of Sourcing Strategy, translating the global and regional strategy, to respective sub portfolio and business units,
• · Bring innovative ideas from suppliers and support BU teams on the pricing requests
• · Establish a strong resilience plan for the business units and initiate alternative supplier approval process,
• Optimization/savings/buying performance
• · Competitively buy in one of our sub-categories: flexibles, decoration and tubes, rigid plastics, injection, bottles, feedstock OR folding cartons materials in scope of the role,
• · Intervene in Value Chain, Increase the agreement on right to buy and full price transparency,
• · Identify new suppliers and develop them to strengthen resilience and create competition in the market,
• · Report the savings in the PEGA system
• Forecasting
• · Responsible for price forecasting, ensuring accuracy and completeness and communicating timely to key business stakeholders forecast updates timely.
• Contracting and negotiation
• · Leading and Supporting Negotiations,
• · Ensure compliance to defined procurement procedures-contracting, contract management process,
• · Contract Price Creation in ICAT system, and quarterly price review with suppliers.
• · Close liaison with strategy and insights teams in identifying metrics, tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
• · Launching RFP’s/ e-tenders within appropriate timelines.
• · Ensuring Commercial Terms Contracts are signed off with Suppliers.
• Supplier relationship management
• · Managing overall supplier relationships and regular connects,
• · Ensure compliance to our responsible sourcing policy.
• · Lead the rationalization of suppliers, materials and services that meet Unilever's business requirements.
• · Support service, resilience, and quality strategies
• This role will interface with the following stakeholders:
• Internal:
• · Procurement:
• o Procurement portfolios (global and regional)
• o Procurement operations (global and regional)
• o Collaborative manufacture
• o Sustainability teams
• · Supply Chain (P&I, Manufacturing, Planning)
• · R&D (RDC, GDC, MET, TPLs)
• · Marketing
• · Finance (Category, Procurement)
• · CCBT teams
• · Quality
• · AW team
• External:
• · Suppliers

Our requirements

• · Be outstanding in idea generation, ideas (savings or disruptive innovations) that are forward thinking and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• · Strong at selling ideas to his/her business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective proposals conveying value and communicating it accordingly.
• · Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way.
• · Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.
• · Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution – an eagle eye for detail.
• · Genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably lead business model, connected with Unilever and the business agenda.
• Experience & Qualifications:
• · 3-4 years of experience in a procurement role, packaging experience is highly preferred.
• · Experience on delivery of Cost, Saving and Portfolio related projects.
• · Experience in stakeholder and supplier management.
• · Experience in managing business stakeholder’s relationships.
• Skills:
• · Strategic Sourcing
• · Spend Analysis
• · Price Negotiation and Contract Management.
• · Stakeholder & Supplier Relationship Management.
• · New Vendor / Supplier Development.
• · Value Chain Mapping & Optimization to drive cost saving
• · Experience in releasing and managing Tender and Auction.
• · Experience in cross functional working.
• · Ability to interact with people from different cultures and background.
• · Fluency in verbal and written communication in English.
• · Power Point, Excel are must; SAP will be a plus.