In this challenging role you will be reporting into the Procurement Manager- Bottles Global & Europe.

Main Job Purpose:

Professional strategic program management for the sourcing of 130 Million Euros of Rigid Plastic Bottles and materials meeting the specified needs of the Business at the most competitive commercial terms. Building and developing sustainable partnerships through innovative value creation within Procurement

Key Accountabilities:

Procurement of Rigid Plastic bottles/ Blow moulding 

Strategy

• Competitive supplier selection or development;
• Benchmarking & best practices -identify metrics, tools and process to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies;
• Managing local EU procurement change management projects e.g., complexity reduction projects (e.g. harmonisation of specifications and suppliers), resilience;
• To support in delivering Unilever ‘s multi-year commitments on sustainable sourcing -the environment, well-being and social imperatives in the procurement of materials and services;
• Close liaison with the feedstock team to ensure our direct resin sourcing strategy for virgin and PCR resin are aligned and executed via our bottle convertors;
• Close liaison with all EU Rigid Plastics team members and strategy and insights teams on contract board and strategy council submissions, cost model development and competitiveness vs the market and implementation of insights through the strategy and negotiations;
• Manage EU price forecast against future sourcing strategy and innovation plan.

Value Creation

• Responsible for the value creation program/competitiveness for the bottles portfolio in EU- identifying opportunities, tracking and ensuring timely inputs to global/regional project development and OTIF execution of global/regional strategy and projects;
• Manage the Operation Cash Flow and Working Capital plans for the Portfolio in EU;
• Work with the global resins procurement managers/ assistant managers to integrate global resin sourcing strategies with business and portfolio demands, ensuring timely inputs to EU project development and OTIF execution of global/regional strategy and projects;
• Close liaison with supplier operations teams in implementing metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies;
• Close liaison with strategy and insights teams on contract board and strategy council submissions, cost model development and competitiveness vs the market and implementation of insights through the strategy and negotiations;
• Collaboration with collaborative manufacturing teams in driving PCR inclusion and leveraging our buying scale to CM’s to optimise our competitiveness.

Supplier Relationship Management:

• Ensure suppliers for EU bottles are compliant to our responsible sourcing policy;
• Negotiate value driven agreements that are in line with defined commercial and legal requirements and subsequently manage the supplier relationships/SLA’s along with key stakeholders;
• Measure and manage overall performance of EU suppliers;
• Lead the rationalization of suppliers, materials and services that meet Unilever's business requirements;
• Support service, resilience and quality strategies with the respective supply base, supporting markets in specific requirements with the suppliers;
• •Support the PCR implementation programs with suppliers.

Business partnering

• Responsible for EU price forecasting ensuring accuracy and completeness of the forecast OTIF and communicating timely to key business stakeholders forecast updates timely for further engagements with CCBT’s;
• Share market insights that support the business with accurate price forecasting, which includes market conditions, price trends and future market trends to enable proper budgeting and price forecasting.

Others

• Ensure compliance to defined procurement procedures-contracting, contract management process- contract boards, strategy councils;
• Close liaison with strategy and insights teams in identifying metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.