Asst. Procurement Manager S&i B&w

**Procurement Strategy & Insights Associate Manager - Beauty & Wellbeing**

**Work level**: 1D

**Location**: Argentina

Full-time

Local conditions apply

**ABOUT PROCUREMENT**

Part of the Supply Chain’s family, Procurement is responsible for over 40B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 58,000 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 competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

With over 1350 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 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 that is based on three key drivers: Being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven and Future-Fit.

**PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & INSIGHTS**

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization for each BG 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 data-driven 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

**MAIN JOB PURPOSE**
- To be a healthy forward-looking challenger with the following key activities:

- Support the Transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with B&W Procurement Teams, BG Leads, S&I and Finance.
- Crate insights from available data, based on a good understanding of the data architecture and guiding the mining process.
- Derive value creation opportunities based on deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling
- Conduct supply and demand analysis, in collaboration with the portfolio sourcing teams

**KEY INTERACTIONS**

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Associate Manager - Beauty & Wellbeing will interface with the following stakeholders:

- BG & BU B&W Procurement teams,
- Procurement Strategy & Insights teams
- Portfolio Procurement team
- Finance Team
- UniOps and Sourcing Operations team
- Key Suppliers and agencies/partners
- Industry and insights resources

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**

Supports S&I agenda in Beauty & Wellbeing BG and support transformation projects agenda in an agile manner, working closely with B&W Procurement, S&I and Finance teams.
- Transformation projects agenda in S&I works across several portfolios, and closely co-ordinated with Finance, B&W PLT. Co-leads the program and its components, lead stakeholder conversations and create analytics based insights for opportunities.
- Scout newest market trend and technology of Procurement & Supply Chain functions in multi-industries and convert into new transformation projects as new capability building into the organization.
- Supports 7 Steps strategic sourcing assessment.

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 uncover valuable business insights that can be transformed into actionable plans
- Analyses data to seek trends, patterns, anomalies, and findings that drive useful business insights
- Translates data into insights by discovering, creating, testing, and validating hypotheses with the portfolio sourcing teams, communicating the insights and working with the sourcing teams to develop and execute strategies that leverage these insights

Derives value creation opportunities based on a deep Value Chain expertise, Supplier, Competitor and Industry Insights, as well as benchmarking and cost modelling.
- Executes detailed Value Chain analysis to define opportunities to intervene/intermediate at different levels, taking into account all the different Packaging we source
- Is closely connected with the Markets and Industry boards, acquiring the relevant Intel to identify opportunities and creates technology/