Global Assistant Strategy & Insights Manager, Procurement

Global Assistant Strategy & Insights Manager, Procurement

Reports to : Senior Procurement & BOS Manager

Location : Mumbai HO, India

Function : Procurement, Supply Chain

ABOUT UNILEVER

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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 2.5 years ago, serving as the nerve center 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-led verdicts 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 drive BG/Po1 insights and land implementation.

• Insights team, reporting Head of Strategy & Insights and drive 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 drive central procurement digital program, from building data foundation, develop advanced analysis 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 analysis use cases and Procurement GPT products and AI agents for Procurement and Sustainability, which doesn’t exist in the market.

JOB PURPOSE

Reporting to the Senior Procurement & BOS Manager, Strategy & Insights the purpose of this role is:

• Utilizing data to drive future-fit procurement strategy and create value in competitive buying, portfolio strategy development, resilience & partnership.

• Enable data and insights-led business verdicts.

• Project management for the Digital program, closely work with both internal and external to make sure the OTIF deliverable.

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

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

• Improve the user experience and culture, organized the training and digital upskilling sessions across procurement to improvement the overall adoption.

KEY INTERACTIONS

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

• PCLF (Procurement Change Leadership Forum)

• 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., R&D, Finance, etc)

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Co-own Data Strategy

• Identify, transform, and connect all procurement relevant data

• Ensure consistent and trusted data across Procurement Organization

• Democratize data for self-service analysis and insights generation

• Support Sourcing Team on Business Intelligence and Advance Analysis for value creation

Strategic Business Partnering

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

• Pave the way 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 taking the right call.

• Pave the way for 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, drive Digital & Data upskilling session within Procurement Community

KEY TRAITS:

• Practical thinking & bias for action

• High passion to digital transformation in business

• Outstanding problem-solving skills

• Good communication skills

• High Initiative, Quick Learner and Self-Starter

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 3-5 years related experience in a procurement role either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large complex organization with strong portfolio and market expertise. With data skills is a plus

• Good business sense and commercial acumen

• Comprehend procurement procedures, policies, operational practices, and governance frameworks

• Demonstrated skills in a large community with good rational thinking

• Good data led skills, able to make sense of large amounts of data and market intelligence

• Familiarity with basic relational databases, SQL, and data lake ecosystem

• Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment – both F2F and virtually.

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.