Global Procurement Process Excellence Director

Unilever Brasil Ltda.; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 101,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever Brasil Ltda. in the Netherlands (Rotterdam) seeks a Process Excellence & Digital Enablement Director to define enterprise procurement strategy, operating model, and governance. You will sponsor global transformation, drive data governance, and deliver value through digital enablement across markets.

The role oversees a team, partners with technology providers, and champions benefits realisation, with a focus on faster, compliant, and user-led procurement outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience in procurement, process excellence, or digital transformation within a large organisation.
• Proven ability to define operating-models and drive transformation across geographies and functions.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, data governance, analytics, automation and AI.
• Ability to govern complex transformation portfolios, prioritise investments and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong executive stakeholder engagement, financial acumen and strategic storytelling.
• Leadership mindset to prioritise, navigate ambiguity and manage rapid tech change.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower the Process Excellence & Digital Enablement team of six FTEs, including this Director role, with five direct reports at Manager level.
• Define enterprise procurement process-excellence and digital-enablement strategy, operating model, standards, governance and investment priorities.
• Advise and challenge CPO and Leadership Team on processes, data, technology, analytics and AI.
• Sponsor global transformation portfolio to simplify and standardise procurement processes and improve speed, compliance and user experience.
• Set analytics roadmap translating priorities into use cases and measurable outcomes via dedicated teams and partners.
• Establish benefits-realisation with ownership, adoption metrics and ongoing value tracking.
• Establish data governance with common definitions and a single source of truth for procurement performance.

Skills

Senior leadership

Procurement strategy

Process excellence

Digital transformation

Data governance

AI awareness

Job description

Unilever Brasil Ltda. in the Netherlands (Rotterdam) seeks a Process Excellence & Digital Enablement Director to define enterprise procurement strategy, operating model, and governance. You will sponsor global transformation, drive data governance, and deliver value through digital enablement across markets.

The role oversees a team, partners with technology providers, and champions benefits realisation, with a focus on faster, compliant, and user-led procurement outcomes.