Assistant Procurement & BOS Manager, Procurement Strategy & Insights

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Job Title: Assistant Procurement & BOS Manager, Procurement Strategy & Insight

Function: Procurement, Supply Chain

Reports to: Procurement Manager

Work Location: Mumbai HO, India

Travel: Yes, 5%

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.

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is team formed 3 years ago, serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever global procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. With vision of Translating Knowledge & Data into Future Fit Procurement Strategy & Insights, as the key enabler of Lighthouse strategy this team is responsible for: 

• Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams

• Creating and implementing standardized processes and data-driven decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes

• Identifying, scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams

• Facilitating rapid learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people

With a growing agenda and scope, the Procurement Strategy & Insights Team now consists 4 sub-teams:

• Strategy team, reporting to Focus of Five and Power of One Procurement VPs and dot line to Head of Procurement Strategy, drive the BG/Po1 strategy and lead BG/Po1 insights and land implementation.

• Insights team, reporting Head of Strategy & Insights and lead the central procurement insight agenda along with Competitive Buying and other Lighthouse programs, as well as drive cross BG/Po1 transformation projects.

• Digital team, reporting to Head of Strategy & Insights and lead central procurement digital program, from building data foundation, develop advanced analytics use cases and services, and drive digital transformation across 7 steps. We are recently intergrade Business Operation Sustainability team to cover Sustainability digital program in this team as well.

• Data & AI Innovation team, reporting to Head of Strategy & Insights, this newly set team and 100% focused on innovating advantaged analytics use cases and Procurement GPT products and AI agents for Procurement and Sustainability, which doesn’t exist in the market.

JOB PURPOSE

We are seeking a resilient, detailed orientated and highly motivated talent to join our team as a Strategy & Insight Assistant Manager. Reporting to the Procurement & BOS Manager, Strategy & Insights.  This role will play a crucial part in supporting in various aspects related to Subscription Strategy and Operations. The purpose of this role is:

• Manage subscription operations including renewal, Monthly/Quarterly MMPD reports, ad hoc data and accesses requests, regular purchase orders, payment and invoices operations independently.

• Lead S&I PO and invoice management, have one reporting line (EY contractor) for central management. Make sure the BAU operations regarding PO and payment smoothly with budget and finance team.

• Analysing data to drive future-fit procurement strategy and create value in competitive subscription optimization strategy, portfolio strategy development, digital and AI agenda regarding subscription data and reports.

• Enable data and insights-driven business decisions.

• Project management for the subscription digital and AI projects, closely work with both internal and external to make sure the OTIF of the project’s deliverable.

• Build strategic partnership with other data and digital team across Unilever Organization (e.g. D&A, IT, Horizon 3 Labs, Finance)

• Develop and maintain relationships with external agencies for partnerships in market intelligence and subscriptions.

• Improve the user experience and culture, organized the training and upskilling sessions across procurement to improvement the overall adoption for subscription AI product Market 360.

KEY INTERACTIONS

The Assistant Procurement & BOS Manager, Procurement Strategy & Insights will interface with following stakeholders:

• Head of Global Procurement Strategy & Insights

• Procurement Strategy & Insights Leads

• Buyer Community

• UniOps Team

• HR Learning Team

• Procurement Finance Team

• Supplier Operations Team

• Digital & Data team in other cross function team (ie., D&A, IT, H3L, etc)

• EY team for projects and BAU

• External subscription partners

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Subscription Operations:

a. External Market Prices & Macro Economics data and reports:

• Monthly/Quarterly MMPD report: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data through a combination of RPA (ETS - Unilever Enterprise & Technical Support) and manual processes.

• Refresh and share Excel reports and Dashboards to Unilever stakeholders.

• Provide ad hoc support to Unilever end users for subscription data access.

b. Subscription portfolio management:

• Do detailed tracking of all subscriptions list and support and follow up on subscription renewal process, ie., meeting arrangement, Purchase Order (PO) creation.

• Assist in suppliers' creation and interactions.

• Manage costs follow-ups and budgeting as per UPLT OKR.

• Support data and report ad hoc requests for procurement users.

2. Lead Subscription optimization and integration Project:

• Project management for the digital and optimization project of subscription to integrate subscription data and report working with external data team through API Connection as per manager requests together with platform suppliers.

• Communicate with internal and external parties for API connection to new platforms.

• Lead the project as project manager with the support of EY contractor to launch on time as requested. Contribute to the success of the Subscription digital and AI project, ensuring effective communication and collaboration with relevant parties as per manager requests.

3. Strategic Business Partnering

• Work closely with business and/or procurement stakeholders to understand their goals and determine how data can be used to achieve those goals regarding subscriptions.

• Lead the Insights creation from available data and drive digitalization, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process, for portfolio strategy development and decision making.

• Lead Future-fit Digital Product development for Global Procurement. Overall project management for digital initiatives / solutions in collaboration with other Strategy & Insights team members

• Drive user adoption and NPS, lead training session within Procurement Community for Market 360 GPT project.

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

• Logical thinking & bias for action

• High passion to digital transformation in business

• Detailed oriented with operations support

• Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills

• Excellent communication skills

• Ownership with high Initiative, Quick Learner and Self-Starter

• Time management with quick and agile actions

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 5 years related experience in a procurement role either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large complex organization with strong portfolio, cross-functional teams and market expertise.

• Good business sense and commercial acumen.

• Understand of procurement relevant procedures, policies, operational practices, and governance frameworks.

• Demonstrated skills in a large community with good logical thinking.

• Excellent data analytical skills with attention to detail, able to provide sharp insights of large amounts of data and market intelligence for strategies

• Familiarity with basic relational databases, Big Query, API and data lake ecosystem is a plus.

• Leadership and ownership: Pre-active in the tasks and always make sure of the in-time reporting of the tasks.

• Good with Excel and other office tools.

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV, talent card and a motivation letter.  If you have been informed that you are at risk of redundancy, please make sure to tick this box during your application. Please also attach your letter of redundancy to the application.

Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to apply for other positions.