Sr. Procurement Manager

Job Title: Senior Procurement Manager – Home Care, India

Function: Procurement

Location: Mumbai HO

Req ID: R

On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. Our Vision is to double the size of the business, while reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact.
Within Procurement, our goal is to attract and develop great people who want to achieve great successes within and for Unilever as a whole.
We aim to attract people with a passion for procurement done the right way who can apply their skills and expertise to enhance the teams they operate within, and who can grow and develop to reach their full potential.
We offer every opportunity for individuals to reach their full potential; developing them as necessary and providing the chance to shine across the function to ensure we maintain an effective talent pipeline, built on diversity of thought, able to step up to leadership opportunities as the need arises across the business.
We aim to ensure that we have the right people in the right roles across the function to drive future success and ensure we reach the objectives necessary to deliver Unilever's vision.
A successful procurement professional is expected to be:

• Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.
• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way while working on operations role.
• Strong communication skills with internal as well as external stakeholders
• Exceptional execution is key to ensure ambitious ideas are progressed fast towards implementation
• Outstanding in pushing ideas that are forward thinking and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• Able to understand the business urgency and able to push the agenda with different stakeholders to gather the inputs: R&D, Supply Chain, Suppliers etc.
• Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value Procurement adds to the business.

Main Job Purpose:

• Business Partner Home Care Business Group for India
• Create and implement the Home Care Procurement Strategy for India in line with Procurement Light House Strategy
• Drive the Innovation & 5S Agenda for India Home care
• Lead the team managing the procurement operations of Inorganics, Fine Chemicals and locally managed materials for Home Care with a total spend of € 650 M.
• Lead the buying of locally managed materials like salt, minerals, blends, speckles etc. with an annual spend of approx. € 150 M.
• Work on the clean future agenda from Procurement side for India for relevant homecare materials

Key Accountabilities:
Collaborate with the business team to drive the Home Care BG strategy in India

• Work with cross functional stakeholders to drive business goals.
• Collaborate with R&D and Supply Chain teams drive saving, efficiency and innovation programmes
• Bring "outside in" and feed the business with vital market information towards pricing, formulation and innovation decisions
• Act as the "one point contact" for procurement for the HC business
• Lead procurement role in Innovation programmes for HC

Directly lead the procurement of Inorganics, Fine Chemicals & Locally managed materials. These material groups represent a spend of ~650 Euro

• Lead a team of 3-4 WL 1s
• Collaborate with global buyers to achieve strategic objectives of the BG in the region

Work on the decarbonization agenda for relevant materials from procurement side for India

• This would involve collaborating with global teams to put in place short-, medium- and long-term programmes to achieve Home Care Clean Future (renewable materials and GHG emission reductions) goals

Lead the HC Material forecasting process for India

Professional Skills:

Candidate should be minimum a graduate with 10-15 years of experience in Procurement/ Procurement Operations preferably within FMCG

Skills/Competencies

• Ability to work in a hugely diverse, cross-cultural business environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strategic thinking
• Self-driven with the ability to work independently
• Problem solving skills to analyse the situation & take decisions to support the business needs
• Must be a self-starter with strong Bias for Action, Accountability & responsibility and Growth Mindset
• Influencing others and holding them accountable for their actions.
• Relationship management both external and internal
• Must be good in communications – as interaction is at the heart of this role.
   

Experience Required:

• 10-15+ years of work experience in a Procurement/ Supply Chain / Manufacturing

Travel: Low levels (~25%)

Contacts:
Internal:

• Business teams (Marketing, Finance, R&D & Supply Chain)
• Procurement teams – Global & Local

External:

• Suppliers – New & Existing
• Sustainability ecosystem – Certifying agencies, technology providers, Academia
• Government functionaries
   

Reporting Channel:
VP Home Care - Procurement Director Home Care, India

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