Hindustan Unilever (HUL)
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Key Accountabilities:
Implement global sourcing and supplier strategies for the assigned procurement portfolios/sub-portfolios that deliver best value to the Unilever business.
Identify and assess potential suppliers, prepare and manage supplier selections and finalize commercial agreements, coordinating with budget holders and support functions such as Legal, Tax and Data Privacy effectively and efficiently.
Establish successful Ways of Working between stakeholders and Procurement
Build and maintain strong and successful working relationships with stakeholders, suppliers and user communities across Unilever business.
Take ownership on and lead projects to deliver the One-MBS agenda across key value pillars such as Sourcing Excellence, Partner with Purpose, Preferred Supplier governance, Supplier Diversity, Contract Life-cycle Management, Responsible Sourcing, savings, cash, Social Commitments.
Build and maintain market knowledge of trends and suppliers in assigned categories of spend as appropriate.
Manage the assigned Portfolios in terms of sourcing, contracting, stakeholder and supplier partner management activities on a day-to-day basis
Execute innovative strategic sourcing processes, support CPM roll-out as relevant and focus on delivering best value to the Unilever business.
Establish, build and maintain successful/effective relationships with key suppliers
Take ownership on and lead projects to deliver the One MBS agenda as a part of the portfolio across the key areas of Partner with Purpose (PWP), RSP, Sustainability, CLM, Savings, Cash, People well-being, etc
Skills/Competencies
Essential:
Stakeholder management influencing, able to build rapport with a diverse set of stakeholders (local/regional)
Ability to communicate effectively in English language (Oral/Written)
Strong analytical skills and to be able to present key findings in a crisp way
Project management, time management prioritization
Self-starter, able to work independently and virtually
Preferred:
Get energy from working in an always changing, fast paced, performance-oriented environment
Ability to find market intelligence and merge with data analysis to support Portfolio and negotiation strategies as relevant
Influencing skills to challenge and promote ideas and concepts with stakeholders as a trusted adviser
Understand supplier cost models and lifetime cost of acquisition
Negotiation abilities to develop value-add situations with key suppliers
Innovative thinking to measure and promote supplier performance improvement
Curiosity for new technology to provide cost reduction or value creating support
Experience Required:
ESSENTIAL
Experienced (5-7 years) in a procurement role in a large complex organisation
A proven commercial negotiator and good communicator (fluent in English)
Track record of building relationships in a complex field of stakeholders and suppliers, across diverse functional groups and geographic locations
Advanced knowledge of MS Excel (V-lookup, pivot tables), MS Powerpoint and data analytics (minimum: Power BI navigation) allied digital tools
PREFERRED
Bachelor degree or equivalent
Studying for or achieved relevant procurement certifications (CIPS, Unilever Buying Foundation or equivalent)
Experienced in setting up and managing supplier contracts, preferably in indirects
Experience in working successfully in virtual team environments
Working knowledge of creating category and negotiation strategies as relevant
Managing and influencing senior (WL2+) stakeholders in the market
Managing complex and dynamic workload, running multiple projects simultaneously
Working knowledge of Unilever business systems eg SRS, CLM, Coupa, RSP, Velocity
Travel: 15 to 20% (can vary depending on the specific engagement)
Internal:
Procurement:
Business Services teams in other markets
Supplier Operations in UniOps
Procurement Strategy and Insights
Procurement MBS
Business partners:
Business Services stakeholders in Asia
Business Operations
Uniops central service lines and within markets
Procurement Uniops
Internal Unilever Divisions (HR, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain,)
Sustainability team
External:
External Partners
Suppliers
Reporting Channel:
This is a Market/Region based role with reporting to Portfolio Strategy Lead - Workplace Travel
Job tags
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