Job title: Global Procurement Assistant Manager Fine Chemicals
Function: Procurement
Location: Mumbai
Req ID: R-1172575
MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
As a Global Procurement Assistant manager for Fine Chemicals, you will support the sourcing of a portfolio of B&W-led Fine Chemicals to manage a portfolio of approximately 40m for the business across various Non-food Functional ingredients (Vitamins, Organic Acids, Amino Acids, Glycols, Esters etc). This position reports to Sr. Manager Global Procurement, B&W Chemicals.
MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Material Strategy:
- Support in building global sourcing strategy for all Non-food functional ingredients, clearly identifying the market trends in immediate and related chemicals markets.
- Drive alignment on the sourcing strategies, and support for successful execution from all key stakeholders across ranks in Business Groups, Business Units, R&D, Supply Chain and Procurement teams.
- Identify risks to the business and prepare resilience plans to overcome them.
- Identify newer opportunities through transformational sourcing models for the business in accordance with the Lighthouse Strategy of Procurement: e.g. Joint buying, upstream buying, buy to sell, value chain intervention etc.
Portfolio Management:
- Develop short/mid-term negotiation strategies.
- Follow dynamically changing market conditions, understand direct and indirect factors influencing supply, demand and prices and develop a view of future markets trends for the business.
- Deep understanding of material value chains to unbundle and optimize delivered costs through lean principles, DTV, logistics optimization projects and de-dollarization initiatives.
- Full contracting cycle for the materials: from creation and administration of Tenders to the negotiation and closure of contract
- Create/ collaborate and approve sourcing contracts in the Contract Lifecycle Management system on time in full.
- Use Smart Buying tools for extracting greater value: eTender, cost-plus/ market-minus pricing mechanisms, nego-factory, etc.
- Compliance of materials with Unilever specifications, through approvals granted by R&D teams.
- Continuously scans the market to benchmark Unilever's performance vs. competition.
- Support in driving the core procurement agenda on competitive buying, savings, innovation, quality, service, and sustainability.
Supplier Management:
- Nurture and manage supplier relationships to ensure Unilever gets top priority in service, quality, cash, and cost of materials.
- Measure and manage overall performance of suppliers while leading several strategic relationships.
- Manage all contracting discussions with the suppliers, including RFQ, negotiations, compliances, etc.
- Execute legal contracts with suppliers in the form of Unilever Purchase Agreement and Commercial Terms Contract (and where required, also Special Terms Contracts)
- Manage the Compliance of suppliers and sources on Unilever Supplier Qualification System (Aravo): Responsible Sourcing Policy compliance and Quality Assessment compliance.
- Engage and lead the discussions with PTW, and JBDP suppliers to identify opportunities on value generation, sustainability, and resilience.
Team & cross functional collaboration:
Lead strategic projects in the portfolio, through cross functional teams including BG/BU, R&D, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Procurement, etc.
Closely liaise with S&I, Finance, Legal, R&D teams to achieve common goals & KPIs
Lead few key strategic initiatives on behalf of the overall team.
KEY REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in commerce or engineering, with a strong supply chain/ procurement experience. MBA is an advantage.
- Minimum 2 years experience in supply chain or procurement.
- Very Strong Analytical, Interpretation and Communication skills: data/information analysis and presentation.
- Ability to read markets and convey findings along with recommendations, to the business.
- Comfort with systems: SAP CLM, USQS, SRS, HANA, Ariba, etc.
- Knowledge and experience of forecasting, planning processes, market operations, supply chains
- Basic understanding of chemicals and Consumer goods industry.
