$83200 - $100000 Year
Monday to Friday
Day shift
Health insurance
Paid time off
Employee discount
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
401(k) matching
Flexible schedule
Parental Leave
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible spending account
Retirement plan
Others
SCS Project Leader
Job ID: R-82117
Category: Supply Chain
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
INTRODUCTION
Do you want to build your end-to-end understanding of Unilever’s supply chain across all 5 Business Groups?
Do you have strong project management and analytical skills that you want to develop further in a high visibility and collaborative team?
Are you looking to learn about the business inside-out and make an impact?
Then please read further….
JOB PURPOSE
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Personal and Home Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day with more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Knorr, Hellmann’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum Dove, Omo, CIF. And as one of the leading FMCG companies in the world, Unilever has transformed itself in recent years to deliver on its promise of profitable, sustainable growth and establish a world class supply chain organization.
Our internal Supply Chain Consulting team - Supply Chain Strategies (SCS), is established to realize key business goals by looking at the End-to-End Supply Chain with a longer-term vision. The team drives 3 strong strategic programs to deliver value towards the company’s most ambitious goals.
SCS drives the transformation agenda with an end-to-end approach through:
Network Design: Review and redesign our manufacturing/sourcing network for cost optimization, ROIC improvement, make vs buy decisions, capital investment evaluations
Design-To- Value: Gross Margin improvement through End-to-End business analysis from Consumer insights, Pricing/Portfolio/Promo analysis, product teardowns, competition benchmark to Procurement & Supply Chain cost optimization
Competitor Intelligence: Understand, monitor, and anticipate competitors’ business operations to unlock opportunities
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
The role requires strong leadership ability, exceptional project and stakeholder management skills, excellent communication capability and analytical skills. This is an exciting, high profile and leading role with the following responsibilities:
Work as a Supply Chain Strategy Project Lead, across multiple categories, regions, products, etc. and leverage deep understanding of our 3 programs
Lead projects and deliver results on time, within scope and within budget
Build meaningful stakeholder relationships to bring them along the project journey, while still challenging the status quo
Manage delivery from cross functional teams internally and externally while ensuring quality of delivery from external partners and managing escalations or leadership involvement when required
Collaborate meaningfully with senior leaders across the organisation to identify opportunities to drive business solutions
Define project governance structure, drive Steerco reviews, assess risks (cost, scope, resources, quality) and plan ways for mitigation.
Devise ways to improve project delivery by bringing in best practices
Experience and Qualifications
Around 5 years’ experience in strategy consulting environment OR in FMCG
Prior experience in E2E Supply Chain (Procurement, Logistics, Strategic Planning) and / or Net Revenue Management, Portfolio / Pricing Optimization, Finance
Experience in training, coaching and guiding teams to achieve project outcomes
A solid understanding of cost accounting, financial accounting, and project management
Very strong storytelling, presentation and communication skills
Strong problem-solving skills, analytical ability, strategic and critical thinking
Can work and build rapport with stakeholders across functions and seniority, in a multicultural environment
Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regressions, properties of distributions, statistical tests, and proper usage, etc) and experience with applications.
Experience using statistical computer languages is a plus (R, Python, SLQ, etc. to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets)
WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO
Have an endless drive to learn, excel in their work with a growth mindset
Do not hesitate to challenge the status-quo
Have an end-to end & holistic approach
Are energized by stakeholder management and collaboration with other people
Are high achievers with analytical thinking, energy and resilience to solve complex problems
Are strong team players, creating an environment of enthusiasm and positivity
Are flexible and independent with strong value system and integrity
Communication
Leadership
Teamwork
Interpersonal
Learning/adaptability
Self-management
Organizational
Computer
Problem solving
Open mindedness
Strong work ethic
technology
Others
2 years
Manufacturing
On going position
In-person