Assistant Manager, Sustainable Sourcing (Geospatial and Data Analytics)

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Manager, Sustainable Sourcing(Geospatial and Data Analyst)based inGrha Unilever, BSD City, JakartaIndonesia

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. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. 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 inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. 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.

Job Purpose

• This is an exciting role in Unilever’s Sustainable Sourcing team within Procurement and Supply Chain. Unilever has significantly stepped up its ambition to drive impact for people and nature, with its Sustainability Goals. This multi-year commitments require embarking on an ambitious journey to change commodity supply chain traceability and transparency, to increase the accountability of upstream supply chain actors for environmental and social risk, and to deliver on our commitments to a deforestation-free supply chain.  This agenda requires the support of anAssistant Manager, Sustainable Sourcing (Geospatial and Data Analyst) on the team.

• We need a highly curious and motivated individual to work at the intersection of geospatial, data analytics, model-building and cartography. Your duties will include analyzing large datasets, spatial data through mapping software, and building and interpreting maps with geographic data and various other data sets. You will also use data, spatial and other intelligence to build predictive models to inform Unilever’s sustainability risk management, sourcing strategy and field programs.

• This role will provide support to the Unilever Sustainable Sourcing Managers and Procurement Buyers to implement our sustainability and deforestation-free sourcing strategies with suppliers in palm oil, soy, cocoa, pulp and paper, and tea supply chains and impact projects and programs in sustainability policy compliance (e.g. EUDR), forest protection and restoration, regeneration and carbon.You will report to the Senior Manager, Sustainable Sourcing, who is based in Singapore responsible for the global sustainable sourcing of palm oil, as part of a purpose-led international team. 

Main Responsibilities

Project Development and Management of the Unilever People and Nature / Sustainable SourcingDatasets, Geospatial Dashboard,other Digital Platforms (including for Zero Deforestation):

• Develop, operationalize and project manage the Unilever People and Nature / Sustainable Sourcing (SuSo) Datasets,Sustainability – GeospatialDashboard and Digital Platform (including for Zero Deforestation) of forest risk commodities that include palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, cocoa, and tea. This main task would be to provide manage and provide insights on data from the Unilever’s Buyer’s Console and SuSo system, maintaining the cross-commodity sustainability dashboard and digital platforms, bug fixing with partners, building, curating and migrating consistent data schemes and a data repository, strengthening models and algorithms as they are tested and come online onto the platform. 

• Manage service providers and consultants to deliver our Deforestation-free supply chain (including for compliance towards the European Union Deforestation Regulation [EUDR] and other policy requirements) and traceability reporting from various datasets and geospatial information through an online dashboard for all forest risk commodities at Unilever.

• Manage the construction, development, and maintenance of data-driven decision-making geospatial tools and scorecards related to sustainability, traceability, and transparency for teams within Sustainable Sourcing and Procurement at Unilever. 

• Support in the integration of datasets (especially geospatial information) for cross-cutting themes related to the Unilever People and Nature Policy that include data on social issues, natural ecosystems, biodiversity, restoration, and regenerative agriculture. 

• Strengthen inferred sourcing area and traceability models with new data sets from key partners.

Data Curation, Models, Automation, Analysis, and Reporting:

• Integrate, manipulate, and maintain datasets from the Unilever Buyer’s Console and SuSo System, spatial datasets / data library from suppliers, service providers, and consultants, transitioning from ad hoc to systematic data collection and management process.

• Create spatially explicit data models relevant to Unilever’s supply chain of relevant biophysical and socioeconomic indicators of risk and impacts (e.g. deforestation, poverty. carbon, biodiversity, water, smallholder agriculture) using remote sensing and other datasets.

• Use geospatial data science to gain understanding of the likeliest links in the supply chain network (e.g. sourcing patterns of mills, trading relationships) based on prior knowledge of supply chain facilities and data on commodity flows.

• Analyze the data to give the Unilever Sustainable Sourcing and Procurement Buying teams information required to engage suppliers and source preferentially from origins that advance achievement of the Unilever People and Nature Policy and Compass Strategy commitments and to minimize risk.

• Lead the transition to consistent, automated, and low intervention digital processes by setting up workflows from currently manual processes.

• Take ownership of streamlining data collection and management for traceability workstreams that would unify datasets from Unilever factories to plantations and farms.

• Produce maps showing the spatial distribution of various kinds of data, including, but not limited to, mill and refinery sites, forest, deforestation, fires, smallholder distributions.

• Create "shapefiles" to merge topographical data with external data by layering external data over a topographical map.

• Produce reports on geographic data utilizing data visualizations.

• Apply mapping tools and integrate reports with procurement teams to act on deforestation & conversion alerts and external grievances.

Training, Capacity Building and Learning for Professional Growth:

• Provide training and onboarding material to empower the Sustainable Sourcing team and Procurement Buyers to be able to use data analytics and geospatial information unassisted through the Unilever Buyer’s Console,SuSo system, and Unilever People and Nature Geospatial Dashboard and Digital Platform. 

• Lead the development and management of updates of Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) of the People and Nature Dashboard and Platform. 

• Build networks within the Sustainable Sourcing team and other teams working on sustainability, carbon, and climate goals across the business including the Unilever Safety and Environmental Assurance Center (SEAC).

• Build understanding of various workstreams in other parts of Procurement and Supply Chain at Unilever.

Support the Delivery and Implementation of the Unilever Sustainability Goals:

• Develop an understanding of the supply chain for five deforestation-linked commodities globally from feedstock to final product.

• Support the Sustainable Sourcing and Procurement Managers in delivering the sustainability and Zero Deforestation strategy, particular the Unilever Compass goals for sustainable sourcing, regenerate nature, no-deforestation, climate and empower smallholders.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop a road map for the implementation of geospatial analysis into Sustainable Sourcing and Procurement decision processes.

• Collaborate with team members to identify opportunities for geospatial analysis to support and inform decision making on social sustainability and human rights, biodiversity, restoration regeneration, climate change.

Ad-hoc support as needed. 

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• At least 3-5 years prior work and professional experience.

• University degree in Geospatial Information Systems, Environmental Studies, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Geography, Surveying,Economics, or related field. Master’s Degree strongly preferred. 

• Experience with mapping tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth Engine and proficiency with various mapping languages.

• Experience working with spatial data, both raster-based (grid cells with pixel data e.g. satellite image, carbon density map) and vector-based (geometries with data attributes e.g. census tract, palm oil plantation boundary).

• Experience working with Javascript, Python, R, SQL and other computing languages preferred.

• Essential –experience/involvement in environmentaland/orsocial sustainability projects, data analytics, or issues management.

• Preferred – knowledge of forest-risk commoditiesand supply chains, including palm oil, cocoa, soy, paperand pulp. 

Skill

• Excellentcommunication skills in English, verbal and written.

• Microsoft office skills, especially excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills that support well-developed skills in presenting complex information, both visually and in writing (from datasets derived by using pivots, vLOOKUPS, etc.)

• Quick and accurate synthesis of information from multiple sourcesin the form ofexecutivesummary/white paper.

• Must be a self-starter with strong Bias for Action, Accountability & Responsibility and Growth Mindset.

• A willingness to work with uncertainty and information gaps; to set a direction where there is no precedent.

• Must be a strong executor, being able to work independently and virtually.

• Must lead both processes and people across a broad and diverse geographic and business environment.

• Able to work in fast paced environment and manage timelines.

• Good stakeholder management skills (internal and external).

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills.

• Strong analytical mindset and curiosity. 

• Outstanding quantitative skill set.

• Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills.

• Project and change management experience.

• Project management: design, budgeting, contracting, monitoring, and reporting

• Strong interest in sustainability and sustainability standards

• Ability to work in virtual teams

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Note: Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. If you require any support to complete your application or any subsequent stage throughout your recruitment journey with us at Unilever, then please specify how we may be able to assist you.

Additional Information

Please be aware if you are applying for this role, we require you to have working rights in the country where the role will based in. If successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.