Procurement Strategy & Insights Assistant Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Procurement Strategy & Insights Assistant Manager - Packaging   , Global Procurement

Manager level : WL1D

Schedule : Full time

Location : India

Function : Procurement, Supply Chain

Travel : Yes, 10% of time

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain s family, Procurement is responsible for over 40 billion of material and services spend globally with more than 50, 000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand brand needs, bring supplier innovation to meet changing consumer needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions. With over 1, 400 employees globally, we support a network of thousands of suppliers and more than 1. 5 million smallholder farmers who in turn support communities of over 7 million people.

Po1 Procurement Strategy & Insights :

Po1 strategy and insight team directly reports to the Po1 VP and has a dotted line report to the Head of Procurement strategy director. This team is responsible for deploying Strategy and Insight team capabilities into the Po1 team. The Procurement central Insights Team serving as the nerve center of the Unilever global procurement organization. This team is responsible for enabling the procurement organization to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. Key responsibilities include :

• Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams.
• Creating and implementing standardized processes and data-driven decision-making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes.
• Developing and enabling procurement strategies with respective network VPs and portfolio and market teams based on strategic insights.
• Identifying, scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams.
• Facilitating rapid learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

KEY INTERACTIONS

The  Procurement Strategy & Insights Assistant Manager  will interface with the following stakeholders :

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Facilitate creation and updating of portfolio strategies, and deliver analytics and guidance for negotiations and contracting  applying expertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions

Lead the Insights creation from available data  , based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process

Helps define and Rolls out  strategic transformation programs, such as Price Transparency, ZBB and new ways of working

Derives value creation opportunities  based on a deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling

Conduct supply and demand analysis

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Skills Required

Data Analytics, value chain analysis, Negotiation Skills