Assistant Procurement Manager - Logistics (Transportation), India

Unilever is seeking an Assistant Procurement Manager for Logistics in Mumbai, India. The role involves managing procurement processes to ensure sustainable sourcing and competitive buying. The ideal candidate should excel in idea generation, proposal communication, and execution. This position is part of Unilever's commitment to making sustainable living commonplace and requires collaboration within a diverse team focused on innovation and value-driven strategies.
Title: Assistant Procurement Manager - Logistics (Transportation), India

Location: Mumbai, 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 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 Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 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 stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customer’s 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. Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.

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 Organization. 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 approximately ~ INR 1000 CR transporting goods from 100+ sourcing units to HUL Warehouses across the country. This role is about co-leading Professional sourcing of this spend while meeting the specified needs of the Business at most favorable 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 Supply Market & Competitiveness: Collaborate with Internal and external stakeholders to generate competitive insights to benchmark current cost, sourcing specifications & partner base vs market and identify areas of opportunities and risks
• Develop Sourcing Strategy: Design the sourcing strategy to optimally meet the sourcing specifications; who to buy from, how to buy, when to buy; and align with key stakeholders
• Execute Strategy: Execute sourcing events leveraging the right negotiation tools, including but not limited to leveraging e-sourcing tools.
• Contracting and Compliance: Ensure contracts are in place and implemented on ground by collaborating with operations and finance teams
• Develop & lead Change Management Programs: Collaborate with Customer operations team to co-develop and execute change management to land business benefits
• Monitor and Improve: Collaborate with Customer operations team to continuously monitor supplier performance and ensure resilience during disruptions. Create pipeline of new opportunities for value creation by building and sustaining a productive relationship with suppliers.

Key Contacts:

You will work along with multiple Internal and External Stakeholders, key being
• Internal
• Logistics Procurement, Excellence and Strategy & Insights Teams
• Customer Operations Teams
• Finance Teams
• IT Teams
• External : Suppliers

Travel :

The role will involve domestic travel for 10% of the year

Skills

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

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

Education and Experiences

The Candidate should have
• Either a bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years’ experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management
• Or a master’s degree with specialization in Procurement / Supply Chain

Relevant Experience in Procurement of Logistics Services will be preferable.

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 on the basis of disability.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity