Key Accountabilities:
- Supports the execution of regional strategic sourcing projects and is responsible for local negotiation planning & execution, ensuring commercial benefit (savings) captured in benefits tools and signed off by finance
- Working with Strategic Sourcing Manager, Portfolio Lead, regional stakeholders and supplier ops to determine preferred supplier listings and agreeing rate cards for regional suppliers
- Proactively work with Supplier Ops to ensure day to day transactional work is being supported and making use of eProcurement tools to deliver increased value
- Working closely with Key iOps stakeholders and Strategic Sourcing Manager to develop and delivery market specific portfolio strategies
- Providing credible market data and local supplier segmentation, creating detailed budget and spend analysis to identify sourcing pipeline and plan that meets local business needs
- Ensuring contractual commitments are in place and signed off by stakeholders, legal and finance as appropriate
- Manage escalation issues arising from markets and seek help from Strategic Sourcing manager or Portfolio lead as needed
- Proactively ensure transparency and compliance with business policies for sourcing activities in iOps.
- Ensuring that stakeholders are complying to company policy and guidelines, providing tips and tools to help local buying in markets where procurement resource is unavailable
Experience Required:
Qualification/experience
- 5-8 years of procurement experience (Indirect Procurement experience will be preferred)
- Knowledgeable in Sourcing, negotiation and contracting
- Understanding of supply market, value chain, and FMCG knowledge. Knowledge of Outsourcing and other business services portfolios is a strong plus.
- Experience in supplier relationship management
- Experience on medium-large scale project management
- Knowledge of Unilever business systems is a plus i.e., Coupa, CLM, SRS and Aravo,
as well as Analytical tools (Excel, powerBI)
General Skills & Competencies
- Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment balancing a broad spectrum of stakeholder requirements.
- Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and learning through change.
- Able to support the adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change, whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects.
- Ability to interact with stakeholders cross effectively and efficiently functionally to understand their needs and deliver effective balanced solutions.
- Passion for continuous improvement.
- Robust verbal and written communication skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations as an added advantage.
- Working knowledge of financial and business acumen.
- Stakeholder management and people skills.
- Passion and practical creativity.
- Accountability and responsibility.
Travel:
International travel might be required. Not projected to require more than 5% on average
Contacts:
Internal:
Procurement:
- Outsourcing and iOps teams globally in NA and SEAother markets
- Sourcing teams.
- Supplier Operations in UniOps.
- Procurement Strategy and Insights.
- Procurement Partners and Purpose team.
External:
- External Partners.
- Suppliers.