Procurement Assistant Manager Fine Chemicals Job in Mumbai at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is hiring for the position of Procurement Assistant Manager Fine Chemicals!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Support in building global sourcing strategy for all chemicals, clearly identifying the market trends in immediate and related chemicals markets
• Drive alignment on the sourcing strategies, and support for successful execution from all key stakeholders across ranks in Business Groups, Business Units, R&D, Supply Chain and Procurement teams
• Identify risks to the business and prepare resilience plans to overcome them
• Identify newer opportunities and models of sourcing for the business: e.g. Joint buying, upstream buying, buy to sell, value chain intervention etc
• Develop short/mid-term negotiation strategies
• Follow dynamically changing market conditions, understand direct and indirect factors influencing supply, demand and prices and develop a view of future markets trends for the business.
• Deep understanding of material value chains to unbundle and optimize delivered costs through lean principles, DTV, logistics optimization projects and de-dollarization initiatives
• Full contracting cycle for the materials: from creation and administration of Tenders to the negotiation and closure of contract
• Create/ collaborate and approve sourcing contracts in the Contract Lifecycle Management system on time in full
• Use Smart Buying tools for extracting greater value: eTender, cost-plus/ market-minus pricing mechanisms, nego-factory, etc
• Compliance of materials with Unilever specifications, through approvals granted by R&D teams
• Continuously scans the market to benchmark Unilever’s performance vs. competition
• Support in driving the core procurement agenda on competitive buying, savings, innovation, quality, service, and sustainability

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce or engineering, with a strong supply chain/ procurement experience. MBA is an advantage
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in supply chain or procurement
• Very Strong Analytical, Interpretation and Communication skills: data/information analysis and presentation
• Ability to read markets and convey findings along with recommendations, to the business.
• Comfort with systems: SAP CLM, USQS, SRS, HANA, Ariba, etc
• Knowledge and experience of forecasting, planning processes, market operations, supply chains
• Basic understanding of chemicals and Consumer goods industry