Assistant Procurement Manager, Food Ingredients

UNILEVER IS HIRING Assistant Procurement Manager, Food Ingredients

Location:

Air Office

Full-time

Travel required:

5%

Local conditions apply

The role will be closed once the best match is found even before the posting end date

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. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places consumers at the heart of everything we do:
Brighten everyday life for all. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior brands. 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 collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. 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.

Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customers needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying.

We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are an action driven person who excels in operations and has strategic thinking, great negotiation skills and hungry to deep dive into agricultural supply chains, then this role is just for you!

• Enter contracts and managing daily end-to-end operations for Unilever supply across 20+ sites (both in-house and contract manufacturing) in Europe with Europe planning team.
• Address quality deviations with the factory quality team.
• Manage supply challenges and implement risk management strategies to mitigate potential disruptions.
• Support flawless portfolio transfers based on Unilever's business strategy.
• Build strong working relationships with market teams to reflect local business requirements, including service and quality, in your portfolio strategy.
• Excel in various reporting (savings, resilience etc.)
• Manage compliance (e.g.: responsible sourcing, sustainable sourcing etc.)
• Handle payment issues and supplier on-boarding, changes.

• Conduct negotiations with competitive outcome.
• Analyze and develop a deep understanding of supply markets, including external economic factors, and optimize the end-to-end value chain.
• Develop resilience plans and alternatives to ensure supply security.
• Deliver bottom-line savings & cash by identifying and landing key opportunities.
• Collaborate with Suppliers and internal cross-functional teams to land improvement programs.
• Provide accurate price forecasting, including market conditions, price trends, and future market trends to enable Unilever finance proper budgeting and forecasting.
• Strategic Program Support to Procurement Director – Ingredients

• Strong negotiation skills and business acumen.
• Strong track record of cross-functional teamwork.
• Result and solution oriented with outstanding level of agility.
• Outstanding learning, analytical…