HC PTAB - Innovation & Long Term Planning & Collaborative Manufacturing Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for HC PTAB - Innovation & Long-Term Planning & Collaborative Manufacturing Manager!

Function: Supply Chain
Reports to: HC PTAB SC Lead
Scope: PTAB HC BU
Location: Umraniye
Terms & Conditions: Full Time, local conditions apply

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE
At Unilever, we've created an environment where people with energy, creativity, and commitment work together to fulfill ambitious goals and we all work to the highest standards of professional excellence and integrity. 
If you are looking for a challenging, innovative, fun, and energetic work environment, you are at the right place. We believe that the passion of our employees is our strength and this is what drives us toward outstanding performance.
If you'd like to be part of our team to “get more out of life”, come and explore our world...

We are looking for a PTAB (Pakistan, Turkey, Arabia & Bangladesh) Home Care Innovation, Long Term Planning & CM Manager to work in the head office located in Umraniye/Istanbul with a hybrid working model.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• The job is pivoting around change management and aligning different functions and senior stakeholders to ensure the right business decisions are taken with clarity on SC implications and ensuring SC is geared up for deployment of the future portfolio & is optimized for regular sourcing.
• The role interfaces between Marketing, Engineering, Research & Development (R&D) and Supply Chain (Factories, Country Planning teams, Divisional Procurement Operations, Product Group Quality, Global SC, 3rd Party Manufacturing, Logistics).
• The perfect candidate has strong business mindset, strong communication skills to align with different partners within and outside SC, good leadership skills that allow to run projects in a dynamic environment with many changes (e.g. fast track projects, new business models, SC restructuring etc.)
• Ensure effective communication with peers & stakeholders in Marketing, Research & Development (R&D), Planning, Procurement, Quality Assurance (QA), Factories, 3rd Party Manufacturing (3PM) organization.

Innovation Management

• Responsible to deliver innovation OTIF, considering SC strategy, complexity & savings.
• Manage innovation projects across the region to ensure all aspects are delivered OTIF during different project stages (sourcing / planning / investment & capability development/ capacity allocation etc..).
• Support Risk Assessments (Technical Risk Assessment (TRA) & Supply Chain Risk Assessment) for critical projects at each project stage.
• Ensure right capex is allocated for implementation of innovation projects.

Supply Chain Optimization & CM Management

• Run finished good sourcing studies to provide optimum sourcing solution considering landed cost, stock impact & sourcing flexibility.
• Manage sourcing unit change projects and ensure OTIF delivery; meaning no turnover risk, minimized business waste & delivery of identified saving.
• Review performance of CMs and run contingency plans for all factories/CMs within the region.
• Run long term (+12 months) capacity analysis to identify investments needed in factories & CMs.
• Together with procurement, make sure that bottle, cap, trigger mold capacity utilizations are being managed properly to provide required flexibility for the business.
• Ensure right capex is allocated for implementation of sourcing transitions & capacity investments.
• Run 5S saving workshops for controlled cost (production, logistics & indirect) savings.
• Follow up controlled cost savings and make sure that targets are delivered.
• Manage overall SC project agenda for portfolio/complexity management & simplification for HC across PTAB.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Supply Chain Management/Engineering/P&I, with at least 4 years in a leadership role
• Microsoft Project & Office programs (Advanced MS Project, Excel & PowerPoint skills)
• Advance English in writing, reading and speaking A strong sense of purpose and passion for high performance to bring out the best in others and himself/herself
• Fluent in English and Turkish both.

Skills

• Excellent communicator.
• Strong strategic influencing skills.
• Team leadership and coordination.
• Stakeholder management
• A problem solver with good analytical thinking skills to be able to deal with multiple projects 

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context, and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.