Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager - Digital MBS

　　 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 50,000 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 evaluations

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　　With about 1400 employees globally, we support a network of thousands of suppliers, more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers who in turn support communities of over 7 million people. Our Lighthouse strategy puts buying at the heart of what we do to bring value to Unilever in a responsible, strategic, and sustainable way, growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven and Future-Fit.

　　 ABOUT PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS

　　The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team serves as the nerve center 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. With vision of Translating Knowledge & Data into Future Fit Procurement Strategy & Insights, this team is responsible for:

　　Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation on programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams

　　• Creating and implementing standardized processes and data-led decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes

　　• 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 learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people

　　 ABOUT MBS

　　MBS, Unilever's Marketing and Business Services Procurement team, is responsible for Unilever's sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third party spend across Marketing, Business Services, and IT, supporting the business requirements of Brands, Business Groups, Markets, and functions to drive 4G growth through strategic supplier management, cost and value management, sustainability, and innovation, aligned with Unilever's Compass. The team manages an annual spend of ~10B Euro with a supplier base of about 40,000.

　　 MAIN JOB PURPOSE

　　• As the leader of MBS Procurement Digital & Data program, this person is responsible for shaping, driving, and executing the Procurement Digital & Data strategy for MBS procurement.

　　• The vision of our data and digital agenda is to be the leading edge data engine of Procurement & the business, to harness data for insights and value, and to build best-in-class digitalized end-to-end integrated sourcing solutions to optimize the experience for buyers, users, and suppliers., The role will work closely with MBS stakeholders, UniOps, and external technology providers to implement our 4D Data and Digital Strategy: Develop data foundation, Develop Analytics & Insights as Services, Develop E2E Process Integration, and Develop Experiences and Culture.

　　 KEY INTERACTIONS

　　The Procurement Strategy & Insights Manager - Digital MBS will interface with the following stakeholders:

　　• Chief Procurement Officer & Procurement LT members

　　• MBS Team

　　Global Procurement Strategy & Insights Head and team

　　UniOps IT Platform Director and team

　　• UniOps D&A Director and team

　　• UniOps Vendor Management Office

　　• Digital team in Finance, R&D

　　• Supplier Operations Director and team

　　• Buyers, MBS Procurement Community

　　• Procurement Communications community

　　• HR Learning Team

　　• Procurement Finance Team

　　• Technology solution providers: SAP, Google, Anaplan, Coupa, and others which may change over time

　　• New technology start-ups

　　• External digital forums

　　 KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Gather and synthesize the requirements from stakeholders; understand the way of working in MBS and partner/user teams; create, align and drive a world-class data and digital procurement strategy, optimizing the buyer journey, stakeholder journey and supplier journey.Identify and initiate data and digital projects and initiatives, build the solid and logical project plan and business requirement document. Set sharp milestones to reach the specific goals. Provide program management and oversight to manage risks and timelines, resolve issues, and drive the projects through to successful implementation and use.Leverage the resources both internal and external, overall lead and steer digital agenda for MBS spend areas. Make sure the right resources are in place and well deployed to drive the effectiveness and efficiency for all MBS data / digital programs.Design and deploy the governance process and mechanism. Work closely with steercom and other key stakeholders to ensure that projects are executed and implemented properly, within budget, on time in full.Implement the overall Procurement 4D Data and Digital Strategy, make sure it is well landed in MBS and synergized with MBS roadmap,Develop data foundation: keep developing Procurement Data Lake integrating internal data source from Unilever Data Lake (UDL) and other Business Data Lake (BDL) in particular R&D and Finance, and external data source from market intelligence providers, supply chain resilience data, sustainability data, public big data providers. Build data catalogue and continuously improve data quality, to be true to source and to be able to meet increasing data and reporting needs.Develop Analytics & Insights as Services: adopt Graph database technology to develop agile data analytics front end, develop better and more use cases, develop better insights generation based on key use cases and link with other key value generation programs, develop self-service data and data platform and capability.Develop E2E Process Integration: continue to develop and improve the tools developed for different purpose, integrate tools into 7 steps strategic sourcing process, improve the level of automation, transparency and governance among processes in buyer's journey, user's journey, and supplier's journey. Build future version of Buyers Console as gateway of all data and digital tools and services.Develop Experiences and Culture: continuously improve user experiences based on Buyers Console, drive user adoptions, carry on training and digital upskilling program: DigiCon, build the future-fit culture of digital capability across procurement. LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS Strategic, systemic thinking & entrepreneurial bias for actionHigh passion to digital transformation in businessExcellent data literacy, data modelling and logical skillsStrong program management skillsStrong networking skills and people connectorHands-on problem-solver with ownership mindsetStrong talent catalyst to build best digital talent pipeline and developmentStrong communication & influencing skillsStrong training skillsHigh initiative, quick learner, and self-starterAble to influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting lines to achieve interdependent outcomes SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Preferred 8-12 years' experience in Digital Transformation roles in Unilever / FMCG industry or IT industry, ideally in the Procurement spaceSolid experiences in running digital transformation programsStrong knowledge in procurement roles and processes preferred, to create solutions for procurement problems, familiar with 7 steps sourcing and procurement value creation journeyStrong data and analysis foundations with willingness to embrace new initiativesSolutions oriented, results driven and a self-starter with the ability to also work in a team settingHas a good understanding of Agile principles, values, methodologies, and practices that enable agility and approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental (test - do - learn) approachExperience of working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment - both F2F and virtuallyAt HUL, we believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, caste, disability or marital status can bring their purpose to life. So apply to us, to unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make the world a better place. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we'll work to help you become a better you!