Ice Cream GTM Supply Chain Assistant Manager – Arabia & NALI

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will sit in the middle of S&OP Process, where you will work closely with our customer development, marketing, and sourcing unit teams to build an integrated volume and sales plan. You will coordinate the delivery of the results and make shifts on the forecast based on consumption or business need changes and hence will manage all downstream supply chain operations. In addition to Planning responsibilities, you’ll be coordinating Sourcing, Customer Experience, and Logistics processes for the region, where you’ll be the primary contact within SC for customer communications, decision-making processes, and cross-functional alignment involving customer-related issues. If you are an expert in communication, willing to guide related stakeholders to grow our business together and ready to be the owner of short/mid/long-term supply chain processes by your analytical thinking aspects, then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Generation of volume and value forecasting through executing the demand planning components of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

• Understand past and future assumptions, risks, and opportunities, and clean the sales data and build base forecast while keeping track of sales and marketing activity logs.

• Lead the development and facilitate the deployment of new capabilities in Demand Planning such as improvements on S&OP processes and digitalization of the forecasting and E2E S&OP.

• Manage inventory while ensuring maximum service level & availability. Minimize business waste risk by actively managing over and residual inventory. Ensure guardrail processes and governance to manage inventory and business waste.

• Support and work with the category leadership team, providing E2E supply chain business partnership.

• Build long-term customer experience strategy supported by short-midterm agenda to improve customer relations.

• Work in close communication with internal and external stakeholders to highlight risks and opportunities and trigger decision-making, integrating CS perspective to E2E processes.

• Balance SC priorities with customer expectations and needs, enhancing SC responsiveness.

• Manage Sourcing and Logistics operations.

• Track R&D, Regulatory and Quality operations.

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.

• 5+ years of operational experience and planning experience is preferred.

• Excellence in English communication; Arabic is preferred.

• Strong stakeholder management.

• Challenging the status quo and pushing the limits within SC and business operations.

• Expertise in communication skills as well as influencing & persuading.

• Analytical thinking and data analysis competencies.

SKILLS

• Problem solving.

• Effective communication.

• Digital awareness.

• Change management.

• Stakeholder management.

• Collaboration.

• Data analytic.

• Risk management.

LEADERSHIP

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual, you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

CRITICAL SOL (STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP) BEHAVIORS

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

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