Africa Collaborative Manufacturing Capabilities Lead

4 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

Job Position: Collaborative Manufacturing (CM) Capabilities Lead

Function: Supply Chain

WL: 1 CU

Reports to: Africa CM Capabilities Manager

Scope: Africa

Location: Johannesburg/Durban

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

The Collaborative Manufacturing Capabilities Lead as a member of the SC CM team for Africa, is responsible for combining supply chain, technology, manufacturing, and product knowledge with financial acumen to develop a Colaborative Manufacturing strategy for Africa. The strategy developed will move Africa beyond using CM’s for tactical purposes, and leveraging CM’s to create competitive advantage to drive Value.

Main Accountabilities
- Development of the cross-category CM Manufacturing strategy:

- Interface with key PG/MCO stakeholders in defining business needs / strategy.
- The strategy will proactively identify opportunities to improve gross margin, identify capacity required to achieve service levels goals, and unlock innovation capability.
- Business partner functional stakeholders (PG, R&D, Finance etc) for cross Business Group needs as related to CM sourcing activity.
- Support Product Group & Sourcing Unit teams to conduct Portfolio Segmentation Analysis in order to identify opportunities to drive Overall improved Business Value.
- Partner Product Groups & R&D teams in order to identify Next Generation Capability Road Map.
- Partner with Product Group & Import teams to identify & evaluate Localisation Opportunities.
- Develop Advanced CM playbooks, Way of Working’s and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to be rolled out to CM Operational teams via training platforms. Ensure these playbooks, WoW’s & SOP’s are maintained with changing environments and cascaded accordingly.
- Single point of contact for Africa as expert for CM business. Define and develop the end-to-end processes and Governance framework for Collaborative Manufacturing. Custodian to ensure governance is followed through with regular audits and checks.
- Develop and Maintain a CM Landscape Mapping to support resilience, agility and reactive/responsive requirement.
- Develop and manage digital platforms for CM reporting, supplier base and product catalogues
- CM External benchmarking and specialist skills deployment in Africa
- Support in the development of CM P&L development to track financial progress and identify hotspots requiring action from CM operational teams, Product Groups and/or CCBT’s.
- Develop & Drive Africa CM Savings program. Ensure the saving programs are landed in each cluster and rigor in development and execution of such.

Direct Reports

No direct reports. However, the role requires strong interpersonal and influencing skills. Will perform a ‘project lead function’ leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Key Interfaces

Primarily regional and local, with some global interface required. Significant interface with functional team including procurement, R&D, technology, PG/Local SC, SHEQ and marketing

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills
- Excellent understanding of an integrated supply chain network.
- Excellent understanding of financial drivers, including make or buy analysis and decision making
- Strong Customer Service orientation
- Strong interpersonal skills and team commitment
- Excellent team-working and networking skills
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organisation
- Ability to work well with a team of diverse staff
- Ability to work with peers and demonstrate lateral influence
- Sound understanding of technical areas
- Good at managing customer expectations
- Managing and delivering service through strategic partners
- Good knowledge of Unilever’s business and processes

Essential:

- 3+years experience in Overall SC, Technology, Engineering, R&D processing or Manufacturing role
- Wider Unilever functional experience with at least 2 roles in a wider function (e.g. Source, Make, Plan, Deliver or Finance)
- Proven experience in technology evaluation and delivering to business needs
- Experience in Excel & Power Bi
- In-depth commercial knowledge

Desirable:

- Good project management skills
- Previous experience is SC studies and\ or business modelling.
- SAP Experience

Professional Skills:
(The minimum requirement from the job skills profile should be described, including degrees/qualifications preferred.)
- A relevant degree in commerce, engineering or supply chain field.
- A Financial Experience / Diploma will be an advantage
- Experience in FMCG supply chain
- Demonstrated commercial acumen
- Cross functional business process knowledge

Experience Required:

- More than 3+years experience in SC, Technology, Engineering, R&D processing or Manufacturing role
- Experience as a business analyst or business consulting advantage
- Demonstrated track record of working on complex problem solving, tight deadlines with quick turnaround times.

Travel:

- As per job requirements and can be deployed in cluster for short stay per

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