PMO Manager - Factory Separation (Project Verdi)

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Job Purpose

Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals play a crucial part of Unilever growth strategy. 20% of Unilever’s portfolio has been rotated and changed in the last five years. March 2024, Unilever announced the Ice Cream separation. Project Verdi is managing the Separation with the most likely demerger route with full separation expected by the end of 2025. The PMO separation Manager will be leading the Minburi, Thailand separation. If you like challenges and learning, this role is for you.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the physical Minburi separation between Unilever and Ice Cream in terms of costs, timing and contractual agreements between the two parties.

• Overview Physical separation in terms of scope, costs, timing and handover.

• Ensure collaboration across both leadership teams and manage escalation relating the separation with internal teams, project teams and legal teams.

• Design required contract separation plan and service agreement plans for both parties.  

• Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure contracts for service agreementsis according to the local legal requirements and other regulatory requirements.

• Elaborate and execute communication plans.

• Escalate key issues and potential risks accordingly.

• Generate a way of working plan for both organisations, communicate and execute accordingly for the transition period.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• Procurement Sourcing Strategy, supplier analysis and negotiations

• Supply Chain and Value Chain Understanding

• Stakeholder Management

• 10 years business experience of which a min. should be 7 years in different Supply Chain functions.

• Strong Analytical, Interpretation and Communication skills:  data/information analysis and presentation.

• Proficiency in English and further languages are welcome.

• Change management and project management experience.

• Experience in working in a virtual team and managing stakeholders.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your teamdeliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.

• You are still responsible for your own results and as a team leader, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.

Additional Information

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. 

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in Thailand. If you are based outside of Thailand and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of Thailand.

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside Thailand, if successful, your internal application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer.

You will be eligible for relocation support in the form of flights (to Thailand), immigration and tax support (in the year of move) and a lump sum in cash to be paid out during the first salary payment in Thailand. No further relocation support will be provided in a self-initiated CLOC. 

Are you interested?

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed. By applying to this role, you are confirming that you have informed your Line Manager and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.