Assitant Strategic Sourcing Manager Business Services – Outsourcing

Job Title: Assistant Strategic Sourcing Manager Business Services – Outsourcing

Location:  Mumbai, India

Main Job Purpose:

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.

PROCUREMENT

There has never been a more exciting time to be working in Procurement when you consider the sheer scale of what we are seeking to grow the business whilst doing good for our planet and our society. As Unilever Procurement adapts to the ever-dynamic business environment, we will need to be agile in order to continue our track record of delivery in contributing to the top and bottom line. Inevitably, given the consistent and high quality of our delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to continue this rate of performance and indeed go over and above this standard to ensure the value provided is further enhanced across the scope of our remit. As well as ensuring that we are best in class in delivering the basics, we also have to look to the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment - reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage. Our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations. This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals. 

ABOUTMBS

MBS, Unilever’s Marketing and Business Services Procurement team, is responsible for Unilever’s sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third party spend across Marketing, Business Services, and IT, supporting the business requirements of Brands, Divisions, Markets, and functions to drive 4G growth through strategic supplier management, cost and value management, sustainability, and innovation, aligned with Unilever’s Compass. The team manages an annual spend of ~9B Euro with a supplier base of about 40,000.

Within MBS, the Southeast Assistant Strategic Outsourcing Sourcing Manager- Outsourcing   is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Outsourcing sourcing strategy, work closely supporting Stakeholders as well as manage supplier relationships for The Outsourcing Services spend for South East Asia is €3015Mn and this role will be reporting to the Outsourcing Strategic Sourcing Manager Procurement Lead in MBS.

The role will need to foster and build a culture of collaboration and support excellent execution of our strategies while fostering deep relationships with our stakeholders and suppliers.

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

D&I statement:

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.

Interested candidates please share your resume on POG-Fatema.Khilawala@unilever.com