Procurement Process Excellence & Enablement Director

Unilever PLC; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 101,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever PLC in the Netherlands – Hofplein 19, Rotterdam – is seeking a Process Excellence & Digital Enablement Director to define the enterprise procurement strategy, operating model, governance and investment priorities across markets.

The role leads a team of six FTEs and partners with the CPO and Leadership Team to drive transformation through data, analytics, AI and digital products, delivering simpler, faster, more compliant and user-led procurement across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience in Procurement, Supply Chain or related field within a large organisation.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale process and digital transformations across geographies and functions.
• Strong understanding of procurement data governance, analytics and AI.
• Proven ability to govern complex transformation portfolios and deliver measurable value.
• Executive stakeholder engagement, business and financial acumen.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and rapid technology change.
• Build high-performing digital and process-excellence teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Process Excellence & Digital Enablement team (six FTEs) and drive enterprise Procurement transformation.
• Define enterprise process-excellence and digital-enablement strategy: operating model, standards, governance and investment priorities.
• Advise CPO and Procurement Leadership on processes, data, technology, analytics and AI.
• Sponsor a global transformation portfolio to simplify and standardise procurement processes with change management, comms and adoption.
• Set the digital-enablement, reporting and analytics roadmap with defined use cases and measurable outcomes.
• Establish benefits-realisation disciplines with ownership, adoption measures and outcome tracking.
• Establish data governance, common definitions and controls for trusted procurement insights.
• Build enterprise-wide capability through communities of practice, standards and learning paths.

Skills

Senior leadership

Procurement

Process excellence

Digital transformation

Data analytics

Executive engagement

Strategic leadership

Change management

Job description

Unilever PLC in the Netherlands – Hofplein 19, Rotterdam – is seeking a Process Excellence & Digital Enablement Director to define the enterprise procurement strategy, operating model, governance and investment priorities across markets.

The role leads a team of six FTEs and partners with the CPO and Leadership Team to drive transformation through data, analytics, AI and digital products, delivering simpler, faster, more compliant and user-led procurement across the organisation.