Procurement Manager - Sustainable Sourcing, Wood Based Materials

Procurement Manager - Sustainable Sourcing, Wood Based Materials

Sector: Supply Chain and Procurement
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places consumers at the heart of everything we do: Brighten everyday life for all. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior brands. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

ABOUT PROCUREMENT
Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B Euro of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customers needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying.

JOB PURPOSE
Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. If you are passionate about procurement and its role in driving a positive impact for the business, our customers and consumers then this role is just for you. This is a dynamic and core role in Unilever's sustainable sourcing team, focusing on four core sustainability issues: climate, nature, plastics, and livelihoods.

The role will be expected to lead the development of the wood-based packaging and materials sustainability roadmaps and strategy to achieve the goals of sustainable sourcing, managing a deforestation-free supply chain, developing programs to address social issues and achieving GHG reductions. The role may also support the sustainability of biofuels and biogenic sourcing for our own manufacturing.

Crucially, the role will be end to end responsible for the development of the compliance mechanisms, supply chain programs, digital tools, reporting and contractual clauses required to maintain a deforestation-free supply chain for our wood-based supply chain.

Working collaboratively with subject matter experts across the sustainable sourcing team, the role should identify opportunities to partner with peer companies, guide and shape external platforms and engagements that deliver impact.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Business partner the procurement teams to develop roadmaps for sustainable wood-based packaging, taking into account local challenges and issues.
• Liaise with subject matter experts across the business to ensure that sustainable sourcing strategies are contributing to the goals of Protecting and Restoring Nature and other compass commitments.
• Champion the development/design of impact programs across the portfolios in alignment with potential for social and environmental impact.
• Development of contractual clauses to ensure adherence to No Deforestation targets and living wage, living income, GHG targets as applicable.
• Ensure alignment and/or leverage of the climate and nature fund as applicable.
• Develop systems and process set up for program development and execution.
• Design programs according to consistent methodology for baseline and impact metrics and applying best practice or standards as may be required for claims.
• Lead process to ensure reporting of KPIs and impacts whilst building capabilities across the teams.
• Identifying and managing partnerships for driving programs.
• Participating and representing Unilever in industry forums linked to forest products.
• Supporting portfolio sustainability teams and procurement teams in driving impact programs.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Outstanding in idea generation, ideas that are forward-thinking, and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
• Strong at selling ideas to business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective proposals conveying value.
• Appreciative of the value and impact of outstanding execution with a keen eye for detail.
• Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as their own, sets trends and is willing to lead, follow or get out of the way.
• Behave as a Partner with Purpose ambassador and demonstrate the value procurement adds to the business.
• Genuinely committed to Unilever's sustainably lead business model.
• Well-balanced breadth and depth approach with strong people development skills.

Experiences & Qualifications

Essential:

• Solid background in procurement, sustainable sourcing and/or supply chain, with demonstrated experience at a management level.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Drive for operational excellence and execution as well as strategic thinking and foresight.
• University degree.
• Fluent English is required to operate in a global and multicultural environment.

Preferred:

• Experience working in multiple geographies.
• Experience in Agri commodities in particular forest risk commodities.
• Experience in dealing across cultures and time zones.
• Experience with complex contracting clauses, deal design negotiation.

Skills

• Professional experience related to sustainability, agriculture, forestry, agroecology and agronomics implementation and/or research.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate/influence colleagues and hold oneself as well as others accountable for reaching ambitiously set targets.
• Strong stakeholder management & communication.
• Agriculture / Forestry project management and/or program design experience.
• Project & change management.
• Experience in dealing with environmental and social non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
• Experience in commodity standards, certification, and roundtables.

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people, responsible for your own results and able to motivate others to deliver with passion.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people - coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.