Global Flexibles & Europe Packaging Director

Unilever; Katowice; Hybrid; PLN 661,000 - 837,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Poland (Katowice) seeks a Packaging Procurement Director – Europe & Global Flexibles Lead to shape and deliver strategies for a €350+ million portfolio. You will own the global Flexibles strategy and oversee end-to-end Europe packaging performance, collaborating with R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Sustainability and cross-functional teams.

You will lead a 17-person procurement organization, drive value through supplier ecosystems, and steer transregional initiatives on

Qualifications

• University degree with extensive senior procurement, packaging or supply-management leadership experience within a large multinational FMCG, consumer-goods or manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing regional and global category strategies and delivering value, cash, resilience and supplier-performance outcomes.
• Strong executive stakeholder engagement and leadership of regional, global, virtual and cross-cultural teams, with talent-development and succession-management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and empower the Europe Packaging and Global Flexibles Procurement organisation of 17 FTEs, including this Director role, with seven Managers reporting directly to the Director and nine Assistant Managers reporting to those Managers, responsible for approximately €350+ million managed spend.
• Define the global Flexibles strategy by leveraging scale, supplier capability, technology, market intelligence, cost models and value-chain insight.
• Own end-to-end Europe packaging procurement performance across value, quality, service, resilience, innovation, sustainability, cash and working capital.
• Develop and execute multi-year strategies across flexible packaging and associated resin, paper, foil, barrier and converted-material value chains.

Job description

Unilever in Poland (Katowice) seeks a Packaging Procurement Director – Europe & Global Flexibles Lead to shape and deliver strategies for a €350+ million portfolio. You will own the global Flexibles strategy and oversee end-to-end Europe packaging performance, collaborating with R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Sustainability and cross-functional teams.

You will lead a 17-person procurement organization, drive value through supplier ecosystems, and steer transregional initiatives on