Department:
IT Procurement – Marketing and Business Services
Profession (Marketing, Finance, etc.):
Supply Chain
Work Level:
WL 2B
Location (City, Country):
Bangalore, India
Main Job Purpose:
Responsible for strategic sourcing of IT goods and services for portfolio of IT Application, Software, User, and Infrastructure services & Telecoms supporting the Global IT Procurement Team.
Work closely with IT sub-portfolio teams in developing and implementing sourcing strategies, early involvement with stakeholders on projects, Responsible to support the roll-out and compliance to global strategies and contracts within the cluster.
Key Accountabilities:
Responsible for leading sourcing projects in line with the IT strategy and wider MBS organisation goals
Responsible for leading regional and global strategic sourcing activities within the area of spend responsibility, including the definition of internal customer needs, insight of supply markets, developing sourcing strategies, activation of supplier selection and negotiation, facilitating supplier implementation and ongoing strategic supplier relationship management.
Responsible for coordinating global sourcing projects with the Geo IT Procurement Teams – ensuring a seamless service to the stakeholders
Collaboratively work with IT Stakeholders and lead Sourcing activities for the projects
Partnering and managing the Suppliers
Work within defined Procurement procedures (Ways of Working) and always adhere to the Code of Business Principles.
Candidate must have high level of business and IT acumen
Candidate must have significant experience in supply management to strategize, influence and execute the suppliers in the best interest of Unilever in alignment with procurement processes and expectations
Work in an effective, cohesive team environment (Ability to understand all areas of Indirect Procurement)
Support implementation of Global projects in the clusters.
Ensure projects are in line with the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and Responsible sourcing.
Awareness and understanding of local laws and legislation particularly when delivering projects is essential to mitigate risk to Unilever.
Flexibility to travel as and when required.
Strategy supporting and execution
Identify, facilitate, and deliver benefits through strategic sourcing / e – sourcing / demand management / vendor relationship management / value optimisation techniques working in tandem with the concerned stakeholder/s (Global and Local IT Teams)
Identify the optimum supplier relationships for the organisation, negotiate value driven agreements that are in line with defined commercial and legal requirements and subsequently manage the supplier relationships/SLA’s along with the stakeholders
Achieving savings/cash targets through defined methodologies, tracking and reporting on these financial targets to relevant stakeholders
Achieve other defined targets
Support Implementing the global strategic sourcing processes
Manage outsourcing relationships in MBS
Implement and manage sourcing best practices like 7 step sourcing process.
SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Identification and initial assessments of suppliers for assigned portfolio and site clusters
Prepare and manage supplier selection process for assigned spend and site clusters using available tools (BW) when applicable and standardised templates (RFI’s, RFQ’s)
Work with the Legal Counsel and/or Patents to finalise commercial agreements using Unilever contractual operating framework of UPAs or MSAs. Manage and maintain contracts for the assigned spend and site clusters.
Maintain frequent contact with suppliers, to review/resolve day-to-day issues and to develop current insights into suppliers’ business conditions.
Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers.
Develop supplier service Levels, track and analyse supplier performance data, proposing priorities for performance improvement and follow up monitoring actions.
Address / escalate supplier non-performance as appropriate.
GENERAL
Engage key stakeholders proactively, sell the value proposition of Indirects Procurement (MBS) to develop a strong stakeholder network.
Drive best in class business processes, tools and practices including eAuctions & Catalogues
Ensure that supply agreements, commercial terms & conditions, specification information and pricing information including changes is communicated accurately and in a timely fashion to appropriate operational teams/individuals
Source and negotiate for assigned spend and site clusters goods or services above €10k, where no contract exists and that are not strategically sourced
Contribute to achieve the operational objectives: automation of Purchase Orders (catalogs), Preferred Suppliers list management, vendors reduction
Develop and align own work plan, objectives, priorities, and processes within the context of the overall IT Team and stakeholder community priorities and processes.
Proactively identify and deliver Savings and/or Cash e.g. payment term extensions in line with set targets
Professional Skills:
(The minimum requirement from the JSP should be described, incl degrees/qualifications preferred.)
SKILL – (Identify from Professional Skills Dictionary – required at fully operational)
Alliance and relationship management
Need to manage ongoing relationships with suppliers and internal customers to deliver value into the business. Manage contracts agreement, implementation and termination and joint assessment of the relationship and project portfolio, protect continuity of supply and drive continuous improvement.
Supply market intelligence and analysis
Need to identify, examine, and analyse all direct and indirect cost market drivers for sourcing strategy development as well as build databases cost models.
Supply strategy development and supplier selection
Need to match supply market dynamics to internal business need. Construct sourcing strategies, within and across divisions and regions, select suppliers to maximize the sustainable value added to the total business and manage supply risk from global, regional and local supply markets.
Integrating supplier value into the business
Is the key link between the IP and UL stakeholders.
Change Management
Sustainable cost savings delivery is highly dependent on “UL user buying behaviour” change, which is embryonic within UL
Negotiation
Need to set up contracts, commercial terms & conditions and performance parameters with external suppliers
Competencies Required for Success (Please identify competencies most important to this position)
Breakthrough Thinking
Must be able to find new ways of tackling supply management and change the current “buying” paradigm in order to drive new value for Unilever from the external supply markets as well as bringing supplier ideas into Unilever.
Strategic Influencing
Must “sell’ need for behaviour change to sceptical and resistant internal stakeholders’ expectations. Needs to balance priorities, resource demands and stretching cost savings targets with resistance to change
Team Commitment
Needs to be show a high degree of team commitment, working co-operatively with others across the organization to achieve shared goals, required to work with internal business teams.
Organizational Awareness
Needs to understand the linkages and influencers to interface with to drive behaviour change across the entire NA business.
ESSENTIAL
Strong commercial negotiation and contracting skills
Knowledge about IT markets – suppliers’ market, Services cost models.
Excellent working knowledge and application of professional Sourcing Methodologies and processes.
Strong Project Management Skills with the ability to manage Procurement Projects with the minimal of supervision
Track record of building stakeholder relationships across diverse Stakeholder groups and geographic locations
Strong analytical and numeracy skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office
Strong / fluent English speaker
PREFERRED
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
Studying towards or achieved a recognised Procurement certification
Experience Required:
(Please detail essential and desirable experience, including no. of years.)
ESSENTIAL
Experienced (5+ years), preferably in IT Procurement.
Experienced in managing supplier contracts
Skilled in delivering to challenging savings targets
Ability to understand the multiple areas within the Procurement
A skilled negotiator
Experienced in stakeholder and supplier management
Proven in driving commercial value in a Procurement function
Skilled at challenging business stakeholders
PREFERRED
Exposure to sourcing tools like Coupa, Ariba eAuctions and other automation tools
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 – average travel anticipated 3 – 5 days per year (domestic/international)
Contacts:
(Please list any internal and external contacts arising from the job.)
Internal:
Procurement
Cross Functional:
External:
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