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.

• Lead Delivery of savings target across for the Inorganics Portfolio to be managed under the role
• Identify and execute cash opportunities, as per delivery targets
• Contract negotiations and management with Local/Global Suppliers
• To support in delivering the Procurement Business Plans e.g. Supplier Park, Localization, Purple Carbon etc.
• Market assessment and negotiations (wherever applicable)
• Managing the forecast of materials with the global buyers and communication to local finance teams for business cycles.

Digitization

• Support in delivering Digital payment (eInvoicing/ Tradeshift/ Dynamic Bill discounting) and GST compliance
• Support in delivering digital programs and initiatives as per the simplification programs

Operational Excellence

• Drive and deliver 100% service with Agility
• Close monitoring of Supplier performance KPIs via MIS
• Drive Payment On Time and relationship management
• Close working with Planner, Unit SCMs and Vendors

Sustainability

• Support delivery of the Sustainability pillar within the Chemicals Procurement Strategy

Key Accountabilities:
1. The role requires deep knowledge of Procurement process including contracts negotiations and Operations, high level of business interactions, supplier relationships to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs. The role therefore needs a person who is strong in Operations, relationship management, problem solving, multitasker, focussed on driving the business goals and KPIs/targets. 2. Understanding material market and create buying strategy for the locally bought materials 3. Leading the Inorganics operations and buying of local materials for India which includes a high focus on cost, quality, and service. 4. Work with planning team to ensure that material forecast volumes are shared with the buyers in advance for their contract negotiations. 5. Ensuring contracts are entered in the system by buyers on time, contracts review before entering in iCAT, SOBs are updated and factories are communicated in time about price changes. 6. Seamless communication with factories and suppliers to ensure timely schedules are shared with suppliers and material reaches factories in time without any service issues. 7. Understanding plan changes/ materials under stress by attending scheduled CMRP calls to ensure alternate options are triggered in time to ensure timely material connectivity. 8. Regular review with suppliers on their performance: service and quality and giving them timely feedback for corrections. 9. Regular SOB compliance review with factories to ensure minimal variation in the actually delivered qualities versus allocations for key material and vendors. 10. Ensuring inventory for materials remain under control (as per the aligned targets) through a regular review with factories. 11. Ensuring a regular review of quality incidents and giving regular feedback to vendors to improve their quality. 12. Developing strategic relationship with key business partners like factories, planning, SUIT, suppliers etc. 13. Supplier relationships management to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs. Challenges:

• Establishing effective relationships with the internal customers, Procurement Managers, R&D, SUIT, Finance, Quality and other stakeholders) as well as external partners (Suppliers) is key to the delivery.
• This role would require coordination with different raw material buyers and other stakeholders: Working across organizational and cultural boundaries independently without direct hierarchical control of resources.

Professional Skills:

• Candidate should be at minimum a science graduate with 5+ years of experience in Procurement/ Procurement Operations/Supply Chain Planning/Operations preferably within FMCG
• University degree and Supply Chain exposure is preferred
• Project management skills

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