Procurement Director, Tropical Oils Sustainable Sourcing

Unilever is currently hiring for Procurement Director, Tropical Oils Sustainable Sourcing based in Grha Unilever, Jakarta, Indonesia

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. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace. 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.

Job Purpose

The Procurement Director, Tropical Oils Sustainability is responsible for the sustainable sourcing strategy development and implementation across Unilever’s total footprint of almost 1 million tons of raw materials. This position will report to the Procurement Director – Surfactants and Sustainability, and works to continuously develop and evolve long-term sourcing and supplier strategies along with implementation impact programs that align with the overall business objectives for Business Groups and Business Units.

This role will also work closely with the procurement teams for the respective feedstocks and will be a core enabler of the overall tropical oils and surfactants procurement strategies and impacts.

Main Responsibilities

• Support in leading the delivery of Unilever’s multi-year commitments and sustainability goals across Nature, Climate and Livelihoods within our Tropical Oils value chains.

• Responsible for developing the global long-term sustainable sourcing strategy together with stakeholders from Sustainability teams, Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Business Groups and Units.

• Translating strategy into delivery by designing respective impact programs to be run together with our suppliers and partners.

• Support our ambitions for expanding responsible and impactful direct sourcing and sustainable supply to Unilever Oleochemicals Indonesia.

• Proactively manage our relationships and key sustainability metrics with suppliers across the tropical oils supply chain.

• Lead relationships across our key partners and programs with effective supplier communications and engagement.

• Continuously benchmark our approach with competitors and peers, identifying metrics, tools, and processes to optimize sustainable sourcing and impact programs.

• Initiate and/or support drive large change management and value chain integration projects.

• Lead and support Unilever’s response to manage relevant regulatory changes impacting our tropical oil supply chains.

• Support Nature-based reporting, metrics and strategy delivery focused on key ESRS requirements.

• Lead and design technology partnerships and data provision partnerships to accelerate transparency and traceability in tropical oils.

• Be the leader in Digital Innovation for traceability & transparency.

• Lead the establishment of the Unilever Oleochemicals (UOI) center of excellence in sustainability.

• Continuously scout for and onboard new enabling suppliers and partners.

• Effectively manage sustainability budgets and activity-based costing.

• Collaborate with the Climate and Nature Fund team to develop further our pipeline of co-financed projects.

• Represent Unilever in key industry platforms.

Candidate Criteria

• University graduate with a Bachelor’s degree.

• At least 10 – 15 years’ experience in Sustainability, Procurement or Supply Chain management.

• Expert in sustainability or sustainable sourcing.

• Proven leadership capabilities to lead diverse regional or global teams.

• Strong interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder interaction.

• Available to travel 20-30% of the time.

Skills

• Subject matter expertise in Palm or Tropical and Liquid Oils commodities.

• Proven track record in leading sustainability program design for impact.

• Knowledge of supply market and suppliers.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results and constantly seek better ways to do things.

• You are an inclusive motivator of people, creating an engaging climate around you.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets high standards for themselves.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Leadership is service to others.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people and empowers everyone to be at their best.

Additional Information

Please be aware if you are applying for this role, we require you to have working rights in the country where the role will be based. If successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer.