Unilever Ghana Recruitment: Unilever Ghana Recruitment 2022 applications are being accepted from interested and suitably qualified candidates.
Unilever Ghana Recruitment
Unilever is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Its products include food and beverages, cleaning agents, beauty products, and personal care products. It is Europe’s seventh most valuable company.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Asst. Procurement Operations Manager
Responsibilities
Buying Negotiations: Mostly locally sourced items and some imported items which are not regionally or globally sourced. This involves the use of appropriate techniques and knowledge to arrive at competitive prices and deals for the business.
Supplier Relationship Management: This involves dealing with each supplier in line with their strategic importance to the business thus developing better relationships and further integrating them into the supply chain process and systems.
Buying Performance Management: This involves the generation and analysis of reports to facilitate effective control and improvement of buying activities. This is done quarterly and sent to suppliers to carry them along.
Order lead-time management: This involves the management of the order cycle to ensure that the supply chain is robustly anticipated to avoid surprises.
Material Forward Planning: This is to avoid gaps in the future and to ensure that key suppliers are fully integrated to know our forward requirements.
Impact On Business
Margins and of course company profitability are at Risk if buying prices are higher than planned.
Market share and growth targets may be at Risk when product lines are shut due to material out of stock.
Responsible for identifying and driving Cost Effectiveness Projects to mitigate the impact of material movement and improve margins.
Provide key inputs for margin decisions.
Task Horizon
Responsible for all Production items sourcing and management to all the sites and categories of the business.
Building and managing external relationships for sustainable service delivery and performance
Responsible for managing and monitoring regional/global deal prices and contracts in relevant areas.
Help in identifying cost-effective alternatives that directly impact the bottom line
Local contract agreement with suppliers and assessment of supplier performance
Quality assurance
Support product innovation
Business Challenges
Managing over 1000 items while avoiding running out in any one of them
Port congestion and dealing with difficult government agencies
Managing cost base and in-bound Supply performance
High import dependence
Long lead-time, constraining innovation, and impacting working capital.
Dealing with Suppliers around the globe.
The geographical location of the factories with one being 900km away
A bad road network leads to high in-land costs impacting material costs.
Professional Skills;
- Superior stakeholder management, both internal (across all hierarchies and functions) and external (with suppliers and consultants).
- Experience in contract, project, and relationship management
- Experience in Make or Buy studies like Commercial Print, Promotional items, and Point of Sale materials
- Proactive and positive team player
- Excellent communication skills.
Requirement
Essential
- University degree At least 5 years experience in Procurement or Supply Management
- Experience in large-scale change management projects
Preferred
- Experience in international assignments is a plus
Key Contacts
Procurement
- Procurement team
- Procurement operations team, Category
- Procurement operations team, geography
- UPLT
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Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Quality
- Inbound Logistics
- Supply Chain Category Planning
- Supply Chain Innovation Planning
- MCO Demand Planning (depending on team/portfolio)
- S&OP Planning
- Import / Export
Marketing
- Brand Building Quality
External
- Suppliers
- Agents
- 3 PM and 3rd Party Service Providers
Unilever is an organization committed to equity, inclusion, and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever, we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
How to Apply
interested applicants should CLICK HERE to apply
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