Asst Procurement Manager

Job Title

Asst Procurement Manager, Flexibles Packaging - ANZ,Thailand

Department

Procurement

Profession

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Supply Chain

Reporting Channel

Procurement Manager, PH/VN/ANZ

Location

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Unilever House (Bangkok, Thailand)

Main Job Purpose

Contact flexibles accounts for 22% of total global packaging spend & is the 2nd biggest growing formats across BGs. Southeast Asia & South Asia are the biggest spend market followed by Latam & Europe. Thus, flexible packaging plays an important role in helping many categories / businesses across UL to grow, improve margins & stay competitive in the market. Flexibles also plays a very important role in the overall plastic commitments of Unilever globally.

This role will oversee the implementation of the global strategy and operational activities pertaining to the Flexibles and Decoration portfolios within the ANZ market. Additionally, they will be responsible for overseeing Markets Packaging Portfolio as well as ensuring flawless execution and operations of Flexibles portfolio within the Thailand market.

This is a techno-commercial role where, understanding of packaging, supplier landscape, cost models will be utmost important to help businesses grow & also stay profitable. Plastic Sustainability is also a key element for the role.

Key Accountabilities

This pivotal role will play a critical part in implementing and executing portfolio strategies and agenda in the ANZ and Thailand markets.

• Create and implement sourcing strategies in line with Unilever’s global portfolio strategies to deliver savings, innovations and sustainability
• Ensure competitive buying through thorough cost model analysis, benchmarking and execution of buying strategy (i.e. e-tender)
• Build strong relationships and work collaboratively with suppliers, ensuring products are delivered at high quality and service and with compliance to Unilever’s responsible sourcing.
• Lead buying/supply resilience initiatives and co-drive specs optimization/sustainability projects with R&D
• Develop supplier base and resiliency
• Understand market trends and do price forecasting.
• Support category strategies and work closely with cross functional teams (Planning, Sourcing Unit, R&D and Marketing) to deliver key projects.
• Handle procurement-related day-to-day activities under his/her scope to ensure smooth and continuous operations

Professional Skills

• Procurement professional with at least 3 years of experience across procurement operations & buying
• Expertise in buying preferably in flexibles packaging & hardcore buying skills
• Strong Negotiation & communications skills
• Digital and analytics knowledge
• Experience in senior stakeholder management & working matrix organisation
• Financial acumen for business cases and reporting
• Experience in Procurement transformation projects, tools and technologies.

Experience Required

ESSENTIAL

• University degree
• At least 3 years solid experience in Procurement, Sourcing & Supplier Operations
• Good buying, negotiation and contracting skills
• Expertise in supplier development, preferably in packaging space
• Good understanding of Sustainability, circular economy and processing technologies
• Experience on large-scale project management roles
• Demonstrated and proven leadership capabilities to lead a virtual global team
• Experience of working in matrix organisation structure

Travel

• 10-15% Travel

Contacts

Internal

Procurement

Other packaging procurement - Global & regional

Strategy and Insights

R&D

Data science and data expertise

Project execution

Market

Supply chain in market

BU Senior leadership

Plastic Sustainability

Integrated social sustainability

Communications

Finance

External

Supply Partners

Advisors and benchmarking organizations