Assistant Procurement Manager

**Role Title: Assistant Procurement Manager - Personal Care Philippines – RM & CM

Location: Bonifacio Stopover Corporate Center (Philippines)
This position will support on the procurement responsibilities for
Raw Materials (RM) Procurement & Collaborative Manufacturing (CM) of Personal Care for Unilever Philippines.**
The primary objective is to ensure smooth flow of Procurement activities ensuring superior service and supporting superior product through driving resilience, savings & partnership programs and maintaining right quality in line with Unilever sustainable sourcing program for RM and CM.

This role reports to Procurement Manager – Personal Care Philippines
Job Responsibilities
Service & Resilience

• Coordinating with Planning team and Suppliers to ensure smooth material delivery
• Coordinate with Global Buyers in ensuring timely placement of material contracts and delivery through effective negotiations & competitive benchmarking.
• Conduct quarterly/monthly risks and opportunities connect to ensure material delivery risks are addressed with contingency plans.
• Manage the operations of locally purchased material portfolio.
• Work with Supply Chain, R&D and Global Buyers to ensure resilience action plan and execution in place to support business growth
• Track RM/CM aspects of innovation networks to support OTIF innovation delivery.

Cost & Cash

• Support Net Material Inflation target delivery for the Business Unit & market and enable Gross Margin Delivery
• Responsible for accurate input to market by reviewing the Quarterly Forecasting process with Global Procurement and timely accurate short-term input as update to Monthly Material Forecasting process to reflect accurate Material Costs
• Coordinate with R&D teams and support Smart Product/Specification initiatives and ensure the Company Gross Margin agenda is delivered through improved buying performance, 5S savings, and special initiatives for RM/CM sites
• Conduct cost benchmarking exercises locally/ globally and derive best value to the business
• Support Cash Delivery through Creditor Management

Strategic Partnerships

• Coordinate and execute partnerships program for local sourcing in line with Unilever sustainability agenda
• Implementation of supplier strategy, sourcing network strategy and end to end management of Collaborative Manufacturing space
• Manage Cost and Service of CM portfolio by effective assessment of CM partners & through commercial and contract negotiations
• Value Chain mapping – work with Strategy & Insights steam on value stream mapping to enhance supply performance

Quality & Compliance

• Drive Quality and Compliance standards across local and global suppliers for RM & CM partners
• Ensure Responsible Sourcing (RS) Compliance of Suppliers and Supply Partners
• Conduct Technical Risk Assessment and follow up on actions basis business need

Others

• Support and help drive relevant regional and global procurement initiatives in Greater Asia

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance/Business Management/Supply Chain
• Strong Negotiation Skills
• People and Stakeholder Management
• Influencing Cross Functional Stakeholders
• Crisis Management
• At least 5 years experience in Procurement/Supply Chain

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