Procurement Manager, Logistics

Hindustan Unilever (HUL) is seeking a Sr. Procurement Manager, Logistics for Asia, based in Mumbai, Thailand, Philippines, or Indonesia. The role involves managing a significant procurement budget and ensuring sustainable sourcing. Candidates should excel in idea generation, proposal selling, execution, and teamwork, while being committed to Unilever's sustainable business model. The position emphasizes innovation, competitive buying, and creating a positive impact on communities.
Job Title: Sr. Procurement Manager, Logistics (Transportation), Asia
Location: India (Mumbai) / Thailand (Bangkok) / Philippines (Manila) / Indonesia (Jakarta)

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 we believe 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.

ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Global Business Operation family, Procurement manages over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers, over half of them in MBS. 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 stakeholders' needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employee, and customer needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

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 organization 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, contributing to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• Strong at selling ideas to business partners, translating these into effective proposals conveying value.
• Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution - an eagle eye for detail.
• Acting as an entrepreneur, treating business as their own, setting trends and leading when necessary.
• Behaving as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrating the value Procurement adds to the business.
• Genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably led business model.
• Team players who lead the creation of an inclusive team environment.
• Spotting, developing, and retaining talent.

Purpose of the Job:

Asia accounts for half of the global consumer base and more than a third of Unilever’s turnover. This role is responsible for co-creating and implementing Procurement Strategies for the Transportation portfolio in 12 key markets across Asia.

You will be responsible for ensuring the Transportation portfolio sourcing strategies make sure UL is competitive, delivering world-class service levels, improving on safety & sustainability of operations, and building purpose-led partnerships for warehousing services across the markets.

Key Accountabilities:

You are expected to lead the strategy creation and execution with Country leads to deliver on the key metrics of world-class service, competitive cost, safety, and sustainability.
• Working with market leads to understand business requirements across countries for cost, quality, safety, service, and sustainability.
• Understanding spend as well as the total cost of ownership for the company in the market.
• Finding the right sources for generating new or leveraging existing competitive insights for benchmarking.
• Co-creating the sourcing strategy to optimally meet sourcing specifications.
• Identifying and implementing next-generation tools and processes to optimize sourcing practices.
• Building team capability by driving key learning and development programmes.
• Working closely with Internal Procurement teams and Operations Excellence teams to monitor performance and drive key initiatives.
• Creating an inclusive team environment.

Key Contacts:

You will work alongside multiple Internal and External Stakeholders, key being:
• Internal: Unilever Logistics Procurement and Excellence Teams, Unilever Finance Teams, Unilever IT Teams.
• External: Suppliers.

Travel:

The role will involve regional travel for 20% of the year.

Skills:

An ideal candidate is expected to have:
• Strong analytical skills.
• Financial analysis and reporting.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and any Indian language preferable.

The following Procurement skills will be an added advantage:
• Portfolio Strategy Development.
• Negotiation.
• Strategic Supplier Partnerships.
• Digital sourcing Platforms knowledge.

Education and Experience:

The candidate should have:
• Either a bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management.
• Or a master’s degree with specialization in Procurement / Supply Chain with at least 4 years experience.
• Relevant experience in Procurement / operations of Transportation Services.

D&I statement:

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life.