Assistant Procurement Manager - Home Care South Asia

Title : Assistant Procurement Manager - Home Care South Asia

Function : Procurement

Location : Mumbai HO

Req ID : R-1167122

On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. Our Vision is to double the size of the business, while reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact.

Within Procurement, our goal is to attract and develop great people who want to achieve great successes within and for Unilever as a whole.

We aim to attract people with a passion for procurement done the right way who can apply their skills and expertise to enhance the teams they operate within, and who can grow and develop to reach their full potential.

We offer every opportunity for individuals to reach their full potential; developing them as necessary and providing the chance to shine across the function to ensure we maintain an effective talent pipeline, built on diversity of thought, able to step up to leadership opportunities as the need arises across the business.

We aim to ensure that we have the right people in the right roles across the function to drive future success and ensure we reach the objectives necessary to deliver Unilever's vision.

A Successful Procurement Professional Is Expected To Be

• Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.
• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his / her own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way while working on operations role.
• Strong communication skills with internal as well as external stakeholders
• Exceptional execution is key to ensure ambitious ideas are progressed fast towards implementation
• Outstanding in pushing ideas that are forward thinking and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• Able to understand the business urgency and able to push the agenda with different stakeholders to gather the inputs : R&D, Supply Chain, Suppliers etc.
• Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.

Main Job Purpose

The main accountability of the role is to manage Operations of Inorganics materials and buying of local materials, business stakeholders (brand teams, functional teams e.g. R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, MET), manage relationship with the India based suppliers, deliver towards Chemicals savings and in turn contribute to South Asia cost savings delivery. Directly responsible for managing Procurement Operations for more than 300 million Euros spend and approx 10 lac ton for Inorganics and local materials.

Buying Better (Cost and Cash)

Digitization

Operational Excellence

Sustainability

Key Accountabilities

Challenges

Professional Skills

Skills / Competencies

Experience Required

5 years of work experience in a Procurement / Supply Chain / Manufacturing

Travel : Low levels (25%)

Contacts

Internal :

External

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Skills Required

Contract Negotiations, Procurement, Benchmarking, cost models, Data Gathering, supply chain planning , Market Assessment, Excel