ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places consumers at the heart of everything we do: Brighten everyday life for all. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior brands. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of procurement experience, including proven and deep experience in procuring professional services or related field or indirect procurement portfolios.
• Expertise in Sourcing, negotiation and contracting, ideally in 1 or more indirect procurement categories.
• Understanding of the Europe market landscape for Business Services.
• Experience in project management
• Leadership skills to influence peers and stakeholders
• Experience in contributing business process reengineering, with experience driving Change Management initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business administration

SKILLS:

• Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment balancing a broad spectrum of stakeholder requirements.
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
• Able to create and drive adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change.
• Ability to interact with senior stakeholders cross effectively and efficiently functionally (including Business Services, CD, PMUs, and Procurement) to understand their needs and deliver effective balanced solutions.
• Delivers change whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects.
• Passion for continuous improvement
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations.
• High financial and business acumen
• Strong in selling ideas and concepts.
• Inspiring, motivational, and accountable people leader, able to lead remote and cross-cultural teams and connect people and ideas.
• Strong in project and time management
• Stakeholder management and people skills
• Passion and practical creativity
• Tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of challenging goals

JOB PURPOSE:

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you.

The successful candidate:

• Is a caring leader, ready to bring the best out in people; strong in collaboration and influencing skills; and brings forward-looking, healthy challenges to deliver effective solutions.
• Has expertise or is willing to learn to apply defined procurement methodologies (7 steps process) and best practices to meet or exceed stakeholder requirements by delivering results and minimizing risk to the business.
• Is a strategic, independent, and self starter to stay always 3 steps ahead driving towards excellence.
• Understands the wider business context and is knowledgeable and equipped to motivate the team to deliver leading peers for performance and care.
• An collaborative team member and a creative problem solver with service mindset, ready to define and lead the Business Services sourcing solutions to Deliver with Excellence.
• You will own and drive key portfolios for Unilever on a geografical scope, contributing directly to the Unilever GAP Strategy.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:

Support in managing the spend of 320M Euro across various regions in Europe. Business Services are professional services to help the business and employees to deliver better outcomes. This includes as an example workforce (contingent labour, consulting, legal), HR services (benefits, global mobility, training), outsourcing, workplace, travel & fleet, utilities & waste.
The role is supporting the management of the the Europe Business Services Portfolio. This may include commercial negotiations, strategy development and operational service and quality focus on a day to day basis. Managing the relationship between Unilever and suppliers. Drive GM Improvement through the Cost saving initiative projects.