Procurement Manager - Customer Packaging South Asia

Title: Procurement Manager - Customer Packaging South Asia

Function: Procurement

Location: Mumbai, India

Req ID: R-1185097

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.

Job Purpose

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 experienced procurement professional with a passion for creating high performing teams and driving sourcing strategies that focus on delivering value and sustainability, then this role is just for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and execute Unilever procurement sourcing strategies for all Customer packaging spend for India.
• Manage a spend of 39+ m EUR spanning related to corrugated packaging
• Monitor capacity and capability at suppliers in line with the Business Plan to assure continuity of supply.
• Lead a team of two WL1s.
• Lead and support global and/or regional negotiations.
• Execute contract negotiations, leveraging the business and digital tools for support as needed.
• Follow market conditions and lead price forecasting cycles to enable proper budgeting and cash forecasting.
• Contribute towards Unilever’s packaging sustainability commitments including key metrics such as NDPE.
• Deliver net productivity (cost savings/value creation).
• Optimize our packaging to be the most cost-effective design (product logic) while still serving its technical and consumer purpose.
• Identify and implement value chain intervention projects to bring the next level of value and efficiency to Unilever’s supply chain.
• To create and manage strategic supplier relationships and develop Unilever as a partner of choice.
• To identify and bring supplier driven innovation ideas to the business and ultimately to market to drive growth.
• Collaborate with the relevant R&D and technical expert teams to ensure the technical and commercial programs are fully integrated.
• Ensure resilient material supply chains are embedded into our sourcing strategies.
• To manage and reduce overall complexity within the portfolio.
• Adopt and deploy the digital agenda in your markets.
• Ensure proper levels of supplier service and quality are maintained.
• Behave as a key interface between supplier and Unilever and demonstrate the value procurement adds to the business.
• Communicate and execute the supply strategies and maintain connections with key Business Units and Business Groups.
• Support on regulatory related topics that may impact the portfolio and business.
• Support escalations of service and quality issues (e.g. crisis management) involving stakeholders as needed.
  
  

• University degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or relatable subject.
• Minimum nine years' experience in procurement and supply chain.
• Industry experience and knowledge, while not a requirement, is a plus!
• A proven track record of success in procurement and negotiations.
• Experience working with long term business strategies.
• Pro-active and complex stakeholder management and communication across ranks and functions.
  
  

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to concisely communicate to senior level internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytics skills including a deep knowledge of Excel.
• Adept at working in a global virtual network with teammates and suppliers based around the world.
• Professional negotiation models and techniques.
• Basic understanding of finance.
• Comfort with systems such as Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, SAP CLM, and more.
• Other skills: change management, forecasting and planning processes, and market operations
  
  

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team delivers with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context, and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.