Assistant Procurement Executive

External Job Description

**Requisition ID**:R-07924

**Job Title**: Assistant Procurement Executive - Logistics (Transportation), India

**Work Level**: 1D

**Location**: Mumbai, India

**Reporting to**: Sr. Procurement Manager Logistics (Transportation), India

**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 collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centres 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’s family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 50,000 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 brand needs, bring supplier innovation to meet changing consumer needs and drive financial value for Unilever through cut-throat buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based resolutions. We support a network of thousands of suppliers, more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers who in turn support communities of over 7 million people. Our Procurement “Lighthouse” Strategy focuses cut-throat buying through various levers like world class buying practices, deeper value chain insights, value chain transformation, partnership with purpose and strong procurement expertise.

**Overview**:
At Unilever Procurement, we have big ambitions. Our Procurement with Purpose vision seeks to ensure we are a purpose-led, value-driven and future-fit organisation that creates growth while delivering on Unilever’s commitments to make sustainable living commonplace.

Procurement sits at the heart of our Compass Organisation. With a €33 billion spend across a diverse portfolio including food and ingredients, packaging, commodities and marketing and business services, our work touches every part of the business, putting us in a unique position to make a positive impact on people and planet.

Our 1,300+ employees operate at the forefront of competitive buying, sustainable sourcing and purpose-led partnerships. We seek to combine our own technology expertise and insights with our partners, to support the creation of disruptive sourcing strategies and supplier-led innovation that respond to ever-changing consumer needs quickly, flexibly and effectively.

We are looking for Procurement Professionals who are
- 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 led business model, connected with Unilever and the business agenda.
- Team players who lead the creation of an inclusive team environment

**Purpose of the Job**

HUL spends a huge amount transporting goods from 100+ sourcing units to HUL Warehouses across the country and moving goods from the suppliers to the factory networks. This role is about co-leading Professional sourcing of this spend while meeting the specified needs of the Business at most favourable commercial terms.

As a co-lead, you will be responsible for buying Competitively, ensuring delivery of service levels, improving safety & sustainability of operations and building purpose-led partnerships for Transportation services in India.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Understanding business requirements: Collaborate with business to understand business requirements for Cost, Quality, Safety, Service and sustainability; translate it to sourcing specifications.
- Spend Analysis: Understand and analyze spend data as well as the total cost of ownership for the company
- Assess S