Warehouse Assistant Manager

ABOUT UNILEVER

It is Unilever’s in-house centre of business partnering and operational excellence in the area of finance services, supply chain, customs, procurement, integrated planning and performance delivery. There are 300 people in Katowice Hub.

The modern Katowice Hub office, whose interiors were designed according to the principles of sustainable development, is located in the city centre of Katowice, Poland.
We are working in the hybrid way to use the time spent in the office to influence collaboration and straighten the team spirit, using special designed for this purpose office areas. 

JOB PURPOSE

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.  If you are an aspiring supply chain professional with a passion for numbers, processes and a drive to make an impact, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• "Scope - European warehouses

• Performance management for  50 Unilever Distribution Centres (DC) located across Europe (Unilever own and 3PL). Those DC's are responsible for intake of the goods delivered from factories (by primary transport), storage and preparation of deliveries (executed by 2Y transport).

• Benchmarking and Best Practice sharing across the various warehouses and defining what gret looks like aligned to global operating standards.

• Driving 5% Savings YOY on a total Spend of 250m € across these warehouses working closely with in market teams to find opportunities and driving execution with impeccable project management.

• Continuous improvement agenda - ongoing process mapping across EU (internal and benchmark) for identification and reduction of inefficiencies (gap closure) and proposing best in class solutions for efficient warehouse management and cost control.

• Locking Robotics and Automation Road map for every warehouse and optimizing throughput

• Role is independent (owning execution of the change management progress) requires experience (proficient knowledge of the processes) and excellent communication with multiple stakeholders to catch dependencies within the process and than ensure the proposed solution will be implemented across EU and execute properly (i.e. process and its execution of standards for repalletization at all DC). Project management from understanding/identification the opportunity/gap to implementation and execution.

• Role is being supervised by diect line manager (WL2) and is responsible for onboarding the new joiner and further mentoring (if needed)

• Role is having contacts with external parties 3PL (transport and warehouse operators) conducting the performance review excluding contact with the final customer (as being done by Customer Experience / Customer Facing team.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in logistic is advantage

• Minimum 5 yrs of experience in warehouse management

• Comprehensive knowledge of logistics

• Business acumen and customer-centric mindset

• Non siloed approach / open minded

• Ability to leverage analytical skills to correlate insights across various data sets

• Strong analytical skills to identify improvement areas and bleeders

• Proper stakeholder management to establish European world class logistics

• Project lead experience

• Power BI and SQL working knowledge prefered

Skills

• Data Driven Decision Making

• Problem Solving

• Business Acumen

• Storytelling and Influencing

• Strong communication skills to articulate analysis and insights vs reporting data

• Proficient English skills (written and spoken)

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. 

WHAT WE OFFER

• Hybrid work and flexibility

• Opportunities for the development and improvement of qualifications

• Sharing the cost of professional training & courses

• Benefits: life insurance, private medical care, pension fund, sharing the cost of sports activities, Benefits System – Cafeteria and many others

• Extra days off to take care of yourself and others

• Unilever store - Our products at attractive prices

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.