Procurement Coordinator – Closures & Plastic Assemblies LATAM

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.

In Procurement team, we focus on developing and deploying the main capabilities to deliver 4 key business goals: clean future innovation, win with consumers, reduce cost & complexity and agile implementation. Closures & Plastic Assemblies team members must be capable to support all new Compass BU across the region with focus on Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Nutrition and Home Care.

If you are passionate about Procurement, Supply Chains, influencing others to achieve a set of results, and focus on customers and consumers, then we would love to hear from you!

What you can expect from the role?

• Negotiate LATAM closures portfolio – Annual Spend ~EUR 50M.
• Be able to lead and effectively interact with a regional team across Latam within a global structure and suppliers.
• Lead Resilience, Sustainability and F4G savings agenda.
• Explore competitors and market technologies, trends, and opportunities.
• Facilitate BG stakeholder interaction while deploying portfolio strategy.
• Identify areas of opportunities for Value generation projects.
• Build market knowledge on trends, market capabilities, strategy shifts, geo-political influences to provide market insight to internal stakeholders and support strategic decision (bringing the outside in).
• Participate to the global products technology/format capacity allocation to deliver sustainable growth for the BG.
• Prepare negotiation strategy and manage commercial relationship with both local and global suppliers.
• Deliver on key financial targets by ZBB & Product Logic initiatives.
• Scouting for new suppliers that are fit for purpose and in line with Procurement portfolio strategies.
• Lead Sustainability portfolio agenda (special focus on PCR inclusion);
• Coordinate and communicate Price Cycle impacts with all BG and global team. Bear in mind LATAM region has to deal with VUCA countries and complex economic restrictions.
• Provide timely, accurate and actionable insights to drive decision making.

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