ABOUT PROCUREMENT

　　Part of the Supply Chain's family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 5 0,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand brand needs, bring supplier innovation to meet changing consumer needs and drive financial value for Unilever through buying. We're at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools to drive data-based decisions.

　　With around 1 5 00 employees globally, we support a network of thousands of suppliers, more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers who in turn support co m munities of over 7 million people. Our strategy is 'Procurement with Purpose' and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better and growing together with partners around the world and we have an ambition , with co m p e t i t i v e ness at its hearth, that is based on for key drivers: Sustainability , Value Chain, Partnerships and Superior Availability .

　　PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

　　 The Procurement Strategy & Ins i ght s Team is a team, serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever global procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. This team is responsible for : Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams Creating and implementing standardized processes and data-driven decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster out co m es Developing and enabling procurement strategies with respective network VPs and portfolio and market teams based on strategic insights Identifying , scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams Facilitating rapid lea rning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our peopleMAIN JOB PURPOSE To be a healthy forward-looking challenger , as well as a partner to the UPLT , prov ok ing and bring ing new thinking. With the following key activities: Drive the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with UPLT, Head of S&I external partners and head of Procurement Finance. Aligned with the portfolio strategies , support to drive s tatistics and guidance for joint buying app lying exp ertise and the newly created playbooks, incorporating best-in-class solutions . Drive the Insights creation from available data , based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process. Support Joint Buying Squad to drive value generation , upskilling capabilities of the procurement team to identify better joint buying opportunities , enabling and leveraging external partners/platforms to help us to maximize the value D rive and support the digitalization journey of Joint Buying , lea d ing ana l y t i c s and creating opportunity dashboards to s upport procurement teams Support performance m ana gement , monitoring and reporting activities working closely with S&I LT and finance.KEY INTERACTIONS

　　In this role you will interface with the following stakeholders: Chief Procurement Officer , UPLT members & PCLF Head of Global Procurement Strategy & Insights Joint Buying Squad Portfolio Lea d ership team s, Procurement Director & LT Global and Market sourcing teams Procurement Finance Team Head of Supplier Operations, Sourcing Operations and team Key Suppliers and agencies/partners Industry and insights resourcesKEY AC CO UNTABILITIES

　　 Guide the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with UPLT, Head of S&I and head of Procurement Finance. Transformation projects agenda in S&I works across several portfolios, and closely co-ordinated with Procurement Finance, CPO and UPLT members. Co- lea d the program and its components, drive stakeholder conversations and cr eate data based insights for opportunities. S c o ut newest market trend and technology of Procurement & Supply Chain functions in multi- industries, and co nvert into new transformation projects as new capability building into the organization. Develop playbook for joint buying assessment and ex pertise improvement programs by Procurement portoflios . Co -ordinate closely with Head of S&I, and Transformation projects lea d s Lea d the Insights creation from available data , based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process Develops the data mining approach, together with the Digital Strategy team, to un co ver valuable business insights that can be transformed into actionable plans Ana l y ses data to seek trends, patterns, anomalies, and findings that drive useful business insights Translates data into insights by dis co vering, creating, testing, and validating hypotheses with the portfolio sourcing teams, co m municating the insights and working with the sourcing teams to develop and execute strategies that leverage these insights Sup port and drive joint buying agenda, co operating with the squad, external partners , S&I lea d s and finance and digital team. Develop creative approach for opportunity identification for joint buying. With a co ntinuous improvement mindset, leverage the existing tools and develop new one Create dashboards for performance monitoring and reporting Derives value creation opportunities based on a deep market expertise , Supplier, Co m p e t i t or and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and co st modelling Executes detailed Value Chain and market ana l y sis to define opportunities to intervene/intermediate at different levels , taking into ac co unt all the different materials and services we source Is closely co nnected with the Markets and Industry boards, acquiring the relevant Intel to identify opportunities and creates roadmaps based on promising opportunities Masters the digital tools and through internal and external evaluation draws co nclusions to guide the sourcing team to the optimum joint buying potentialsLEA D ERSHIP BEHAVIORS Strategic, Systemic Thinking & Entrepreneurial Strong Talent catalyst to bring the best out of people Outstanding problem -solving and ana l y t i c al skills High Growth mindset & Co nsumer Love Strong Co m munication & Influencing skills High Initiative, Quick Lea rner and Self-StarterSKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Preferred o ver 5 years' experience in a P rocurement or Supply Chain r ole s either in Unilever / FMCG industry or in a large co m p lex organisation with strong portfolio and market expertise Co nsulting experience would be a plus Strong business and co m mercial acumen Prefer red location in India Change m ana gement experience of large scale / global transformation programs is preferred Has a good understanding of Agile principles, values, methodologies and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do - lea rn) approach Ability and drive to work independently and guide diverse teams, across different geographies Experience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment - both F2F and virtually Ability to influence senior stakeholders and peers effectively Excellent critical thinking, data and story-telling ski lls in orde r to respond to multiple market/portfolio specific characteristics and influence change remotely