Go-to-Market Quality Assistant Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for Go-to-Market Quality Assistant Manager 

Function:  Supply Chain > Quality

Work Level:  WL1D

Location: Unilever Thailand HQ

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.

JOB PURPOSE

The Go to Market & Logistics Quality role works within a market cluster at MCO / Country. The role is focused on Quality in market related operations, implementing, executing, improving and providing technical quality support to warehousing, transportation, repacking and customers for QMS (Quality management System) compliance, regulatory compliance, care line support (customer complaint); co-ship/co-store; on-shelf quality assessments and incident management. In addition, to support factory on CICOT halal product registration.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Decision making directly impacts marketplace success, UL credibility with customers and on shelf quality of UL products in the marketplace impacting UL reputation and brand equity.

• Role activities mitigate and manage UL Corporate Operational Risk (products meet our consumer safety and quality standards)

• Supports efforts to drive Quality improvement in complaints related to CRQS issues with Logistics, BB, BD, PG teams

• Initiates activities aimed at managing quality issues with customers & channels including rejections, complaints, technical support, product handling such as cold chain, waste reduction in customer

• Provides Quality requirements for physical product returns from customers and provides disposition approval (where needed)

• Monitors, aggregates and analyzes marketplace and overall product quality data from multiple channels (e.g. consumer & customer care lines, shelf inspections, warehouse & re-packer data, employee observations etc) to prioritize, escalate and initiate Q improvement activities as appropriate

• Leads Pallet Quality Improvement based on KPI data, trends analyses and quality improvement methodologies / tools

• Supports Quality improvement projects within Thailand for business complaints, and CRQS using data analysis, workshops & toolkits

• Provides interface with care lines for customer and consumer alert triggers and feedback data

• Defines CRQS for Secondary and Tertiary Packaging based on Customer needs and globally aligned

• Ensures regular marketplace on-shelf product assessments are carried out (CRQS evaluations), data is analyzed, and improvement projects are activated and followed up

• Links Quality requirements into Perfect Store initiatives

• Spends time in market to understand customer and merchandising processes and to identify and activate opportunities for improvement

• Provides coaching and input to warehouses, assemblers / re-packers during external regulatory body audits & inspections (with input from Regulatory Affairs and Legal)

• Ensures and verifies ongoing compliance to local regulatory requirements in independent third-party re-packers, assemblers // in logistics operations

• Communicates local regulatory requirements / knowledge / details / changes and ensuring compliance in operations including warehouses, logistics and manufacturing sites within Cluster

• Ensures discipline in use of SAP QM and provides master data updates (as necessary)

• Ensures and verifies ongoing compliance to UL Quality Management Standards in third party re-packers and assemblers and Logistics operations through communication, self-assessment activities, KPI monitoring, technical visits (as needed) and general oversight

• Ensure and verifies compliance and calibration of UL Quality Management System across UL managed warehouse and UL distribution center (DC)

• Validates that new third party re-packers, assemblers and warehouse / transportation providers are capable of meeting UL Quality requirements by conducting technical capability assessments

• Raises issues and drives improvements for import / export with supplying PG (and site/factory as needed)

• Provides Q input to cluster VIP projects related to assembly / re-packers, warehouses, transportation by ensuring quality risk assessment and mitigation are conducted

• Provides expertise and support to resolve Quality issues / incidents related to warehouses, transportation, re-packers, assemblers, promotion suppliers and customers within cluster geography

• Supports Product Quality Incident management for marketplace incidents and follow up actions

• Deploys UL Quality strategy, governance and goals through cluster specific projects and targets

• Develops Quality links to strategies of SC organization

• Builds Quality talent in team through coaching and training

• Provides Quality leadership to influence Quality culture through activities to create passion for products and brands, visibility for quality, quality messaging in non-SC company initiatives and coaching of cross-functional leadership across categories.

• Leads forums with Business Group Quality which supply to the Cluster in order to review quality needs, issues and performance for products supplied

Halal CICOT Registration

• Manage halal CICOT registration for UL product and coordinate with cross function team (Marketing, Research and development, planning) to provide document or information related with Halal registration. Including  support Halal audit (CICOT) activity to manufacturing .

• Maintain product halal CICOT compliance for UL and manufacturing partners product.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Batchelor ‘s or master’s degree in food science, engineering, quality, logistics or customer service experience

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Supply Chain Quality, Quality logistic, Quality engineering

• CAPA, RCA, 5 Why problem-solving workable knowledge is a plus.

• Experience in QualityOne and other programs essential for Quality analysis such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Power BI, etc. and warehouse traceability systems is a plus.

• Experience in Warehouse and Logistics

• Digital skill

• Project Management skill and data analysis skill

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