Title: Procurement Manager - Customer Packaging South Asia

Function: Procurement

Location: Mumbai, India

JOB PURPOSE:

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do creating a better business and a better world. If you are an experienced procurement qualified with a passion for creating high performing teams and driving sourcing strategies that focus on delivering value and sustainability, then this role is just for you

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop, implement, and execute Unilever procurement sourcing strategies for all Customer packaging spend for India.
- Manage a spend of 39+ m EUR spanning related to corrugated packaging
- Monitor capacity and capability at suppliers in line with the Business Plan to assure continuity of supply.
- Lead a team of two WL1s.
- Lead and support global and/or regional negotiations.
- Execute contract negotiations, leveraging the business and digital tools for support as needed.
- Follow market conditions and lead price forecasting cycles to enable proper budgeting and cash forecasting.




- Contribute towards Unilever s packaging sustainability commitments including key metrics such as NDPE.
- Deliver net productivity (cost savings/value creation).
- Optimize our packaging to be the most cost-effective design (product logic) while still serving its technical and consumer purpose.
- Identify and implement value chain intervention projects to bring the next level of value and efficiency to Unilever s supply chain.
- To create and manage strategic supplier relationships and develop Unilever as a partner of choice.
- To identify and bring supplier driven innovation ideas to the business and ultimately to market to drive growth.
- Collaborate with the relevant RD and technical expert teams to ensure the technical and commercial programs are fully integrated.
- Ensure resilient material supply chains are embedded into our sourcing strategies.
- To manage and reduce overall complexity within

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