Strategic Sourcing Manager Marketing

5 days ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:
Strategic Sourcing Manager, Promo Services South Africa
**Department**:
Procurement
**Profession**_:_**

Supply Chain
**Work Level**:
WL 2B
**Location**_:

- **

Durban, South Africa
**Main Job Purpose**:
**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, over half of them in MBS. 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 customer’s needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being **Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit**.
**ABOUT**MBS**

MBS, Unilever’s Marketing and Business Services Procurement team, is responsible for Unilever’s sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third party spend across Marketing, Business Services, and IT, supporting the business requirements of Brands, Divisions, Markets, and functions to drive 4G growth through strategic supplier management, cost and value management, sustainability, and innovation, aligned with Unilever’s Compass. The team manages an annual spend of ~9B Euro with a supplier base of about 40,000. Within MBS, the Strategic Sourcing Manager, Promo Services Europe, is responsible for the **Promo Services **(Shopper marketing, Events &Activations, Field Force, Sampling & other instore services) portfolio.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager, **Promo Services** will work together with Brand, CD, CMI and other functions to **increase effectiveness** of the portfolio by streamlining accountabilities, building capabilities, digital path, and leveraging knowledge, relationships, and business strategies across markets.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager needs to focus on **increase efficiency** by driving scale where it makes sense, decreasing fragmentation, prioritizing higher impact areas, leveraging technology, sustainability, and data, to unlock 4G growth for Unilever in this area. The lead needs to explore business requirements to set up the right operating frameworks. Create seamless, catalogue buying experience for the Stakeholders where it’s relevant.

The role will foster and build a culture of collaboration and agility to enable an efficient project roll-out. It will ensure close alignment in strategy with Brand, CD, CMI, Finance functions, and MBS directors, Market Procurement Directors by defining and utilizing a robust support network for the whole team and providing clarity on the ways of works and roles and responsibilities
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Understand the business needs related to the portfolio, and bring deep expertise and insights across the value chain and supply base to translate the business requirements into effective future-fit procurement strategies
- Connect strategy & execution aligned to Unilever Compass, Global CD and market goals and priorities, aligned with Procurement with Purpose and OneMBS strategies
- Together with Brand, Finance, CD & CMI functions deliver transformational sourcing strategies, execution models, and supplier relationships that help drive 4G growth in accordance with our plans, including a focus on Responsible Sourcing strategies.
- Deliver against financial targets and other KPIs (including value delivery) as per business plan objectives, accountable for delivery of results from all markets, PMUs, Divisions and functions globally
- Implement Unilever Partner with Purpose strategy, balancing a portfolio of global and local suppliers
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, to support business, market, MBS and Procurement priorities and enable rapid alignment and deployment
- Lead rigorous execution of the priorities and transformation initiatives across the portfolio, create development opportunities.
- Ensure Portfolio fundamentals (i.e.data consistency, data insights, recurring stakeholder communications, contracts, etc.) are all put in place
- Future proof the portfolio by driving digital approaches, while building technology enablers to help manage selected portfolio and scope, while driving impactful sustainability agenda.
- Support internal performance management and reporting including creation and stewardship of relevant key performance indicators
**Experience Required**:
**Qualification/experience**
- Relevant Degree essential
- 10+ years of procurement experience, including proven and deep experience in Promo Sevices, including Shopper Marketing, Field force and eve



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