Global Procurement Assistant Manager – Prestige Packaging

There has never been a more exciting time to work with the some of the fastest-growing brands & global business unit in Unilever! We are the Global Prestige Beauty GBU, a group of Premium brands within the Beauty and Wellbeing portfolio known for our commitment to delivering high-quality products to our consumers. The €+1.4bn Prestige portfolio is made up of 8 brands within the Skin Care, Hair Care and Color Cosmetics industries. These brands consist of Paula’s Choice, Dermalogica, Murad, K18, Tatcha, Living Proof, Hourglass, and Garancia. Each brand is unique and focused on giving consumers superior experiences within their respective spaces and target segments. For the acquired businesses, we are committed to continue growing this strategic business for Unilever through international expansion of the acquired brands, utilizing Unilever’s scale and network in the markets.

In this role you will:

1) Find creative ways to optimize operations while leveraging Unilever Scale in a dynamic environment
2) Collect, validate and translate raw data into large scale reports and tools allowing for quick information sharing and decision making
3) Participate in sourcing, bidding process, and implementation of savings and resiliency projects
4) Drive value cross brand as you identify synergies within different portfolio’s

As the Prestige space is relatively new to Unilever, this is a fantastic opportunity to help build a knowledge bank that will inform our future strategy.


In addition, it also encompasses the following responsibilities:
• Constantly ideating, creating and implementing cost savings programs and initiatives
• Drive interaction and communication with Unilever Procurement Network and external partners
• To build and maintain strong working relationships with Unilever Prestige brand teams
• Involve suppliers at the earliest opportunity in all requirement-raising stages and focus upon consolidation of requirements across brands on similar portfolio’s
• Ensure pre-qualification where required of an appropriate number of potential suppliers
• Analyse costs, focusing on total acquisition costs, including activity-based review, and understanding suppliers’ cost drivers
• Deploy Unilever Purchasing Agreements and Contracts, using standard contracts where possible to ensure Brands utilize robust contracting language.
• Refined Data Analytics and Excel Mastery, ability to find the story within the numbers

The role will report to the Prestige Packaging Procurement Manager, based out of the USA & is part of the Unilever Prestige Central team rolling up to Beauty & Wellbeing Group with high visibility across the Unilever Procurement network.

Professional Skills
• Database and Technical Building/Analysis: Ability to collect, sort, translate, and output large data sets in a workable fashion
• Procurement Insights and Analysis: Understand category and supply chain strategies and procurement requirements; Industry, economic, competition and supplier insights
• Procurement Strategy Execution and Performance Management: Competitive bidding and tendering; Supplier negotiation; Supplier qualification and on-boarding; Contractual supplier engagement; Supplier performance measurement and management
• Procurement Process: Basics of procurement processes, packaging & costing formats
• Partnering with Suppliers to Win: Attract, select, manage, and motivate partners; Identifying value creating opportunities.

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