Sr. Procurement Manager - Home Care India

Job Title : Senior Procurement Manager – Home Care, India

Function : Procurement

Location : Mumbai HO

Req ID : R-1164900

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

Key Accountabilities

Collaborate with the business team to drive the Home Care BG strategy in India

Directly lead the procurement of Inorganics, Fine Chemicals & Locally managed materials. These material groups represent a spend of 650 Euro

Work on the decarbonization agenda for relevant materials from procurement side for India

Lead the HC Material forecasting process for India

Professional Skills

Candidate should be minimum a graduate with 10-15 years of experience in Procurement / Procurement Operations preferably within FMCG

Skills / Competencies

Experience Required

Travel : Low levels (25%)

Contacts

Internal :

External

Reporting Channel

VP Home Care - Procurement Director Home Care, India

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Skills Required

Procurement, Strategic Thinking, Relationship Management, Communication, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management