Global Assistant Procurement Manager : B&W

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Job Title: Global Procurement Assistant Manager, B&W BG

Location: Mumbai HO

About Unilever Procurement
Unilever Procurement is responsible for close to 40B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 50,000 suppliers. It is a strategic value creation engine at the heart of the company’s growth agenda. Beyond buying, Procurement plays a critical role in shaping competitive advantage, delivering gross margin expansion, enabling innovation at speed, strengthening supply resilience, and embedding sustainability and simplicity across the end to end value chain.
About the Beauty & Wellbeing Business Group
Beauty & Wellbeing is one of Unilever’s most strategic and fastest growing Business Groups, spanning skincare, haircare, and health & wellbeing categories. The business is driven by science backed innovation, premiumization, and strong purpose led brands, with a high pace of launches, renovations, and global deployments growing Business Groups, spanning skincare, haircare, and health & wellbeing categories. The business is driven by science backed innovation, premiumization, and strong purpose led brands, with a high pace of launches, renovations, and global deployments.
Winning in Beauty & Wellbeing requires a simpler, faster, and more resilient value chain, where procurement plays a central role in enabling margin expansion, and scale, while managing complexity across materials, specifications, suppliers, and geographies.
JOB PURPOSE
This role is a cornerstone of Beauty & Wellbeing’s value creation and simplification agenda, designed to deliver step‑change Gross Margin (GM) expansion and structural complexity reduction across the global portfolio.
The Assistant Manager will also lead the Lighthouse pillar RAAS (Redesign Approval of Alternate Suppliers) for B&W end‑to‑end, owning its strategy, governance, and global implementation. The role will redefine how alternate suppliers are enabled, approved, and scaled across B&W, unlocking margin, improving resilience, and simplifying the value chain at scale.
In parallel, the person will own and coordinate quarterly B&W material forecasting, ensuring robust visibility, alignment, and decision support across Procurement, Finance, and cross functional stakeholders.
This is a high‑impact global change leadership role, operating at the intersection of procurement, R&D, supply chain, and finance, with strong visibility to senior stakeholders across the Beauty & Wellbeing organization.
Key Deliverables:
Gross Margin Expansion - Own governance and reporting of B&W GM expansion, tracking savings delivery and leading cross functional initiatives to unlock structural margin. Support BUs with savings funnel delivery through cascading and deployment of global initiatives and cross-fertilization between BUs functional initiatives to unlock structural margin
Complexity Reduction - Lead complexity reduction across materials, suppliers, and specifications, simplifying the value chain while improving resilience, scalability, and speed without compromising quality or compliance.
Lighthouse Pillar Ownership – RAAS - Own and lead the global RAAS Lighthouse pillar, defining governance, ways of working, and driving consistent implementation of redesign approval of alternate suppliers across markets for B&W Category
Quarterly Beauty & Wellbeing Forecasting - Own and coordinate quarterly B&W material spends forecasting from a procurement lens, ensuring alignment between BUs and different buying team, cost assumptions, and savings levers.
Cross Functional Leadership & Change - Act as a global change leader, partnering with R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, BUs to remove any bottlenecks, accelerate decisions, and embed new ways of working.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• 4+ years experience in Procurement, Supply Chain or R&D.
• Structured problem solving solving and systems thinking
• Ability to lead global, cross functional functional initiatives
• Strong execution discipline with the ability to scale ideas into global ways of working
• Experience in project management and/or project planning.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Good networking and relationship management skills.
Travel:
• The role has a global responsibility; some amount of flexibility is required for catering for time-zone differences.
• The role may require regional and global travel (mainly to UK)