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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 source Fragrances and Flavors aligned to the Business Group and Supply Chain Strategy for Personal Care. You will be responsible for leading the innovation agenda, Focus on desire at scale and unmissable product superiority in the Fragrances & Flavors portfolio for the Personal Care Business Groups. You need to ensure you have best in class service, partnerships, the most competitive prices and genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably led business model, connected with Unilever and the business agenda.
Job Responsibility:
You are a strategy Champion: You lead the co-creation of the innovation agenda for your portfolio. You monitor and understand the dynamically changing consumer market, ensuring a future fit trend driven portfolio, delivering desirability at scale and affordable superiority. With a focus on emerging technologies, you lead the development of not only the current portfolio, but future capabilities.
You are external facing and an expert in the supplier landscape: You assess, identify, and select the appropriate supplier base that meet the needs of the business. You ensure and manage overall performance of suppliers and surpass stakeholder needs.
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.
You are a 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 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 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.
Requirements:
Procurement Sourcing Strategy (level 2 - Capable)
Supplier Analysis (level 3 - Intermediate)
Value Chain Understanding (level 3 - Intermediate)