Unilever is currently hiring for a Procurement Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Agencies - based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world.
We are looking for talents that would like to join this exciting journey with us.
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.
The Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Agencies will work together with our Brand teams and Divisions to increase effectiveness of our marketing procurement by developing and executing global sourcing strategies in market, in partnership with marketing business stakeholders and procurement portfolio strategy leads.
If you are passionate about Procurement, Focusing on deliver top and bottom line results, increasing levels of executional efficiency, rigor, and business impact through implementation of marketing sourcing strategies and strong business partnership with key senior stakeholders.
, then we would love to hear from you!
What you can expect from the role?
- Understand and execute the 7 step sourcing strategy, while unlocking the full capability and potential of the Future Fit Procurement organization (Sourcing (this role is part of the Sourcing organization), Strategy and Insights, Supplier Operations, Purpose and Partnerships) through strong collaboration internally within procurement, partner functions (finance, legal), and business stakeholders
- Earn consideration as a trusted business partner to key day to day and senior (Dir, VP, EVP) stakeholders
- Execute sourcing strategies at the appropriate level of scale in market
- Understand the business needs related to marketing spend portfolios, and bring deep expertise and insights across the value chain and supply base to bring business strategy to life through execution of best in class sourcing strategy
- Connect strategy & execution aligned to Unilever Compass, Global Divisions, Function & Markets goals and priorities, aligned with Procurement with Purpose and OneMBS strategies and principles
- Deliver against financial targets and other KPIs (including value delivery) as per business plan objectives, accountable for delivery of results from all markets, PMUs, Divisions and functions globally
- Together with the function implement Unilever Partner with Purpose strategy, balancing a portfolio of global and local suppliers
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders globally, to support business, market, MBS and Procurement priorities and enable rapid alignment and deployment
- Ensure Portfolio fundamentals (i.e. data consistency, data insights, recurring stakeholder communications, contracts, etc.) are all put in place
- Support future proofing the marketing portfolio by driving digital approaches that help simplify the life for our brand teams, while unlocking efficiencies in the marketing value chain
- Execute best in class Supplier Relationship Management and Customer (internal stakeholder) Management strategies
- Support internal performance management and reporting including creation and stewardship of relevant key performance indicators for the relevant Division and Brand teams
Does this sound like you?
- Bachelor's Degree, master's Preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English language.
- Understanding of supply market, value chain, and FMCG knowledge.
- Knowledge across multiple Marketing portfolios and supply markets.
- Experience on large-scale project management
- Expert in stakeholder engagement
- Demonstrated and proven leadership capabilities to lead transformative initiatives.
- Experience in shaping and leading transformational business process reengineering, with experience driving Change Management initiatives.
- Knowledge of and passion for sustainability, including social sustainability
Why Unilever?
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world.
You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.
You will lead big and small innovations that will make our business win and grow.
You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.