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Job description / Role
Company Profile:
Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, We've Grown into One of The World's Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In Fact, 150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.
Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You're Bound to See One of Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean and Fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy Aims to Double the Size of Our Business While Reducing Our Impact on The Environment By 2020. As A Result, In the Months and Years to Come, We Envisage Many Opportunities for Our Staff to Progress and Gain Vital Experience. It's Never Been Such an Exciting Time to Join the Unilever Team.
Job Scope:
Job Title: Category Planning Assistant Manager -NAME
Department: Supply Chain - Innovations & Category Program Planning
Location: Jebal Ali
Background
- The role is required to fuel the growth through leading the change and delivering fast, slim and on time innovation projects with collaboration with all functions & sourcing unit team.
- The innovation planner designs the best supply route & the optimum supply model through make or buy analysis, he guides the multi-function team on what are the capacity & capability gaps and he designs the most convenient project timeline to balance among Cost, Speed & Risks.
- Through digital solutions the candidate will develop new solutions to simplify the process and the portfolio, keeping margins under control.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Developing supply chain strategic designs & tactical models to support Innovation projects.
- Challenge the targets, the success criteria and the key performance indicators & measures with the stakeholders.
- Review & close the gaps supply chain capacities & capabilities in terms of technology, systems & people in order to fit with the future growth & innovation plans.
- Lead SKU's rationalization plans to simplify the business by harmonization, clusterization & globalization.
- Resolve supply constraints that might emerge from day to day operations (shortage of material, greys)
- To develop, review & analyze the supply chain database to support the business partners with the necessary information for decision-making.
- Incorporating the internal & the external Information and do benchmarking to gaining competitive advantage from application of knowledge.
Key accountabilities
- To deliver innovations OTIF.
- To coordinate cost effectiveness projects.
- To Optimize customer service, inventory and business agility.
Requirements
Key Competencies & Skills - Standards of Leadership
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science: Industrial Engineering or Computer Science
Experience
- 3-5 years of experience in Supply chain with at least 2 Years' experience in planning/ XRS.
- Proven experience in SC with a track record of regional and global interactions.
- Good understanding of financials & business models.
- Previous experience in project management and risk management.
- MS Project, Excel and Power-Bi professional proven experience are a must.
- Proven business discussions/negotiations cross functions experience is preferable.
- Has the digital future understanding, with preferably proven experience in SharePoint, Power automate.
Key Competencies
- Strong Collaboration & contribution, team player Skills.
- Passion for growth.
- Creative thinking.
- Developing Self and Others
- Standards of Leadership:
- Purpose & Service
- Personal Mastery
- Agility
- Business Acumen
- Talent Catalyst
- Consumer Love
- Passion for High Performance
About the Company
Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.
Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.
From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.
We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.