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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 environmental impact 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 Title:
Procurement Manager Tea - NAME Operations
Department:
- Procurement
Profession (Marketing, Finance, etc.):
- Supply Chain
Work Level:
- WL2A/B
Location (City, Country):
- Dubai
Main Job Purpose:
(A concise statement setting out the main purpose and objectives of the job.)
The Procurement Manager Tea - NAME Operations is responsible:
- Cost Delivery as per OP including forecasting of blend prices
- Procurement KPI's of Material Cost % TO, Savings, NMI
- Supply Chain KPI's of OTIF, blend quality as per standard, Days on Hand
- Manages RM spend of E180m
- Management of tasting room and standards (audit, SOP)
Additionally, to link with the Global Tea network in providing all demand requirements for raw tea in the region working with the APS and SAP Supply systems. Engage with R&D actively to deliver savings and meeting consumer requirements. This role will be the procurement representative in CCBT
Key Accountabilities:
(Please describe the responsibilities and end results that would be expected.)
- Weekly blend issuance OTIF and on spec (PBBS)
- Inbound tea delivery tasting and updation in SAP
- Provide full Hub input into all R&D black and Green Tea development projects within the region connecting with the Tea Expertise manager in R&D
- Support and own with R&D all PBBS and ensure they updated in SAP/APS on and in full.
- Support Blend Demand requirements enabling 98.5% Customer Service delivery against the forecast.
- Manage cross functional relationships within in the Category Supply Chain, Marketing and R&D functions, in the CCBT
- Fully manage Tea Tasting Saleroom to ensure full tasting programme is carried out
- Lead discussions with Co-ordination and agree buying solution proposed APS.
- Update and maintain SLA for all Tea Production factories.
- Propose, agree and deliver stock norms
- Own and ensure all master data for Tea specific SAP and APS systems is updated on time and in full.
Requirements
Professional Skills:
(The minimum requirement from the JSP should be described, incl degrees/qualifications preferred.)
Please refer to Job skills profile
Experience Required:
(Please detail essential and desirable experience, including no. of years.)
Essential:
- Fully Operational Tea Taster at least 8-10 years with below requirements
- Can assess and evaluate in detail tea samples at differing brew strengths eg consumer strength, technical strength
- Fully Operational on Tealingo.
- Acts as a lead taster in their space/team.
- Is engaged in the ongoing development of GTP/Tealingo
- Classifies tea samples into Tealingo items as a matter of course
- Scores above the minimum pass mark in an unguided taste test on average over a 1-year period
- Fully Operational Tea Blending Skills with below requirements
- Evaluates the new blends as per Tasting Room SOP to pass/fail vs a blend specification or standard
- Evaluates blends on both physical, visual and sensory parameters
- Understands and exploits the interaction between different tea types to achieve a blend end result
- Understands and exploits the interaction between base blend and additives such as aroma/flavour (choice, dosage etc)
- Can construct a blend in a live system in accordance with a prescribed recipe and/or specification
- Can make the necessary changes to a blend if it has not passed the evaluation to ensure it meets the specification
- Fully Operational in Tea Blend SAP
- Proficient in using the APS planning tool
- Procurement skills including financial acumen
Travel:
(Please make it clear if the job will require travel within the country or abroad and give an idea of how often the candidate will need to be away from home.)
As per job/site requirements.
Contacts:
(Please list any internal and external contacts arising from the job.)
Internal:
Procurement:
- Tea Portfolio Procurement teams
- Market Procurement Teams of Cluster and Category
- Category Procurement Manager, Tea
- Procurement Markets VP
- Procurement VP Tea
Supply Chain:
- Manufacturing
- Quality
- Inbound Logistics
- Supply Chain Category Planning
- Supply Chain Innovation Planning
- Category Directors.
- Category Managers
- Works Directors
- Works Mangers
- Regional & Global Category Quality Director
- Category Quality Manager
IT
Legal
R&D
- R&D Programme Directors. R&D Mangers
- Tea Expertise Director
Finance
- Procurement Finance Teams
- SC Finance Teams
Marketing
- CCBT
External:
- Suppliers
- 3 PM
- 3rd Party Service Providers
Reporting Channel:
(Please show where the job lies within the department, including superior(s) & subordinate(s).)
To Apply:
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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.