Fragrance Raw Materials Global Assistant Procurement Manager

Job Title: Fragrance Raw Materials Global Assistant Procurement Manager

Business Function: Supply Chain, Procurement

Location: Port Sunlight

Job Purpose This role is part of Procurement’s Sourcing team, which is responsible for leading supplier relationships, and possessing and delivering Value Chain Expertise, Scale & Global Leverage and Sourcing Best Practices. Your role is to help establish Unilever’s transformation of its Fragrance business model to achieve affordable superiority in our fragrance portfolio by establishing an in-house fragrance material sourcing capability.

The sourcing of Fragrance Materials is aligned to the Business Group and Supply Chain Strategies for Homecare, Personal Care, and Beauty & Wellbeing. You will be responsible to support and lead sourcing and supplier management activities, helping deliver cost, quality, service, sustainability, and innovation objectives through effective procurement processes. Procurement teams are responsible for sourcing goods and services, negotiating with suppliers, managing supplier relationships, and supporting business operations through competitive buying.

The role reports into the Fragrance Raw Materials Global Procurement Manager.

• You are a strategy guru:
  You help the co-creation of a long term, strategic sourcing strategy for fragrance raw materials. You can keep on top of dynamically changing market conditions, understand direct and indirect factors influencing prices and develop a view of future trends. You implement this strategy by deciding what to buy, where to buy, how to buy and when to buy with multiple global & local suppliers.
  
  Set up all contracts with 3rd parties for timely progress of the activities required by the business stakeholders while securing favourable legal & commercial conditions in terms of time, quality, price Cost control and savings.
• You are external facing and an expert in the supplier landscape:
  You assess, identify, and select the appropriate supplier base and materials that meet the needs of the business. You ensure and manage overall performance of suppliers and surpass stakeholder needs. You will develop and implement a digital Supplier performance programme for fragrance raw materials.
• You take considered decisions under pressure:
  You handle complex and diverse customer, supplier, supply chain or operational issues within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Specific focus is required to ensure that a resilient supply chain is established and that regulatory requirements and proactively assessed and managed through digital tools.
• You are a born leader:
  You are a leader of procurement projects in your portfolio and for your materials. You take on a role leading portfolio wide activity such as accurate price forecasting and complexity reduction. You build strong collaborative business partnerships with Brand, R&D, Finance, Quality, and Business Operations.
• You are a storyteller:
  You use your strategic influencing skills to drive Procurement considerations and strategic recommendations with Stakeholders.
• You create growth for Unilever:
  You work closely with Brand, R&D, Supply Chain, Strategy and Insights and Category Procurement teams to support the launch of innovations and new product development.
• You achieve key financial targets:
  Delivering the business financial targets for Buying Performance, Product Superiority, Supplier performance, and Complexity reduction for the portfolio materials/services and suppliers. You prepare information on purchase prices and conditions to enable proper budgeting and cash forecasting.

• Support/Lead sourcing events, RFQs, RFPs, and supplier tenders.
• Managing a…