Assistant Procurement Manager – PC Collaborative Manufacturing

Job Title: Assistant Procurement Manager – PC Collaborative Manufacturing
Location: Thailand

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Procurement Manager – Personal Care Collaborative Manufacturing Based in Unilever House, Thailand

About Unilever

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Job Purpose

There has never been a more exciting time to be working in Procurement when you consider the sheer scale of what we are seeking to do in doubling the size of the business whilst reducing our environmental impact.

As Unilever Procurement adapts to the ever-dynamic business environment, we will need to be agile in order to continue our track record of delivery in contributing to the top and bottom line. Inevitably, given the consistent and high quality of our delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to continue this rate of performance and indeed go over and above this standard to ensure the value provided is further enhanced across the scope of our remit.

As well as ensuring that we are best in class in delivering the basics, we also have to look to the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment - reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage. And of course, we are only half of the picture.  Our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations.

This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals.

Main Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Manage 3rd Party Manufacturer mainly focus on Personal care

• Supplier sourcing strategy: engage with supplier who have the capability that can support business needs and support business resilience plan.

• Supplier compliance: take care of supplier compliance status in term of responsible sourcing and quality assurance.

• Establish new business partnership with supplier and corroborate with team to building supplier capability when needed.

• Contract negotiation: closing the contract deal with supplier

• Pricing analysis and negotiation: Compare, analyze and negotiate for competitive price that make sense for both business and supplier.

• Spending forecast: input and summarize spending forecast data.

• Saving project and cashflow: find the opportunity to bring saving and cash to business

• Miscellaneous and others upon situation and request.

Procurement Strategies

• Manage daily operation dealing, including delivery, price/cost& spending analysis, contract negotiation, policies, procedures compliance and buyer system, co-ordination and liaison support to other functions in the company.

• Reviewing stakeholder’s requirement and process sourcing to optimize the value gained in term of pricing and value added services.

• Sourcing, selecting and negotiate with supplier on pricing as well as the commercial term and ensure product/service purchased at optimum cost.

• Engage with stakeholders to identify the most suitable supply solution for a given demand (e.g. E-tender, demand management, sourcing & supplier optimization, pitching and rate card)

• Initiate and develop and implement sourcing strategies & execute, practices as well as improving purchasing service by ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

• Implement supplier’s contract by working with cross-functional and negotiate with them to reach agreement on the contract term and conditions.

• Assess and mitigate procurement and operational related risks

• Solving issue regarding commercial and execution, find out the corrective solution.

• Support Procurement Managers by providing timely and accurately assistance on relevant topics and initiatives as required

Projects

• Support tactical and strategic sourcing projects as required.

• Lead the implementation of the global strategies or new buyer system and create& implement cluster indirect category & commodity supplier management strategies.

• Team representative involved in supply chain project or company project which relate to indirect procurement as required. (e.g. financial program, operation improvement, company system etc.)

Vendor management

• Manage cluster suppliers base and global & regional contracts.

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of suppliers and qualifying new supplier base.

• Build and maintain supplier relationships and drive partnerships and collaboration at all levels.

• Drive improvements and compliance of supplier management process.

• Monitor and manage KPI achievement, savings contribution, smooth operation and benefit delivery as agreement.

Business engagement

• Ensure the satisfaction of Unilever's internal customers with the Indirects Procurement goods or services provided by the suppliers within the portfolio.

• Measure compliancy by business users to Procurement policies and contracts and take corrective actions as appropriate.

• Team player to work collaboratively with related function including e-tender, project and savings.

Savings

• Proactively identify and deliver Savings and/or Cash (via payment term extension) in line with set targets.

• Closely working and align with Finance team to contribute the cost savings which entirely impact P&L.

• Identify and propose cost reduction/continuous performance improvement (supplier) opportunities.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• University degree in related field.

• Good buying, negotiation and contracting skills

• Strategic sourcing

• Supply market and FMCG knowledge

• Experience on large-scale project management roles

• Expertise in sustainability, circular economy and processing technologies

Skill

• Outstanding in idea generation, ideas that are forward thinking, and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.

• Strong at selling ideas to his/her business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective proposals conveying value and communicating it accordingly.

• Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution – an eagle eye for detail.

• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way.

• Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.

• Genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably lead business model, connected with Unilever and the business agenda.

• For positions with people reporting to them talent mastery, which includes spotting, fostering, encouraging and retaining talent is a non-negotiable.

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