Procurement Coordinator

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places consumers at the heart of everything we do: Brighten everyday life for all. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior brands. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business.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.

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customers needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.

Background & Purpose of the Job

This position provides strategic and analytical support to the procurement activities for 3rd Party manufacturing operations for the Beauty and Wellbeing Business Group as well as participation in the innovation projects planned to be launched in 3rd party manufacturers.

This includes but is not limited to: execute small, medium and large sourcing activities with a focus on data retrieval and analysis, market research, negotiation and relationship with suppliers, benchmarking activities, manage contracts, work in innovations, savings and improvement initiatives.

Selected individual must collaborate with the various functions throughout Unilever organization, such as R&D, Planning, Finance, Brand and other procurement or supply chain groups in the diverse procurement activities.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do:

3PM BW Procurement activities:

· Participation in the sourcing and bid process, supplier selection, negotiation of prices, terms and conditions, awards and contract management;

· Support and participation on the design of the Procurement Strategies;

· Manage and control the contract of the incumbent suppliers;

· Relationship with the suppliers (meetings, evaluation, scorecard, Partner to Win);

· Develop improvement projects to delivery savings, cash, cost avoidance and service level

improvements;

· Participation in innovation projects, representing procurement in the extended team;

· Baseline analysis, and understanding of the current cost, prices and total spend;

· Special Projects;

· Control of the internal KPIs such as VIP, Cash, Cost Avoidance, USQS, etc.

Challenges

· Ability to work quickly with great accuracy;

· Ability to be self-directed in researching market trends, benchmarking & intelligence;

· Ability to prioritize and escalate issues that may affect key business objectives;

· Negotiation with suppliers and communication skills;

· Understanding of operations and business requirement;

· Working cross-functionally across teams with varying priorities

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED 

Experiences & Qualifications 

· A minimum of a Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics, Business, Sciences, Engineering;

· General business experience in any Supply Chain function (Procurement, Logistics, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Management, Planning);

· English proficiency.

Skills 

· Drive Change Management initiatives, intelligent risk taking while managing risk, managerial courage and willing to make hard, fact-based decisions - comfortable with ambiguity;

· Bias for action;

· Maintain, build, and grow supplier relationships, cultural sensitivity/communication/global thinking;

· Excellent leadership, interpersonal, team building, delegation, and communication skills;

· Excellent business acumen - analytical and quantitative skills;

· Managing change - Develops a shared vision and strategy for change. Delivers change whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects. Tenacious in the pursuit of change goals;

· Problem solving & decision making - Defines problems, systematically gathers and analyses data, identifies cause & effects and establishes root causes & achievable solutions. Makes good and timely decisions;

· Drive for results - Is passionate about and perseveres in the pursuit of challenging stretch goals. Demonstrates energy, drive and enthusiasm when striving to accomplish and improve results.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

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.