Logistics Excellence Manager at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

• Develops and implements strategies to improve Cluster Logistics program and support Global Logistics Program.
• Achieves or exceeds Cluster KPI targets such as Savings, Cost, Efficiency, Sustainability
• Improves best practice sharing culture via Community of Practices
• Drives consistency in World Class Logistics deployment and opportunity identification based on review of top and bottom performers

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Leads Cluster Logistics Center of Excellence team
• Drives the investigation of latest developments in the global and cluster logistics market, understanding the market situation, future tendencies and enhancing external best practices and development of strategies and plans to embed outside in view into Unilever particularly
• Drives the Savings program for the cluster and ensure the gap closing programs are put in place.
• Leads the evaluation of new best practices and the definiton of approved best practices in line with WCL
• Ensures that Center of Excellence team supports Market Assessment teams and Peer Reviewers for identifying opportunities during World Class Logistics (WCL) assessment cycles
• Drives Cluster Logistics Transformation with MCO Leads and drives market assessment to confirm feasibility and estimated benefit / effort for WCL assessments
• Provides input to Global WCL Lead to evaluate capabilities and availabilities to support the implementation of WCL initiatives in the cluster
• Ensures that Center of Excellence team supports region/market Project teams for implementing WCL initiatives
• Acts as the Cluster SME for Delivery in WCL program
• Collects new Delivery best practices and WCL playbook update suggestions from the operations
• Assesses the value of new Delivery best practices and decides whether to include them in cluster program
• Defines the content of chosen new Delivery best practices
• Maintains assessment scoring model for Fulfilment topics
• Conducts Delivery Community of Practice meetings to enable cross learning globally by sharing best practices
• Maintains the members of the Delivery Community of Practice
• Supports WCL assessment cycles during deployment by conducting on site assessment reviews of the markets and WH sites selected by Global Logistics Transformation Region Lead
• Reviews KPI performance of the selected market or WH site against the peers in the same archetype
• Reviews self assessment and peer review of the selected market or WH site and identifies focus areas for the on site review
• Conducts on site review together with local Market Assessment team
• Calibrates self-assessment score of the selected market or WH site after the on site review if needed
• Identifies additional opportunities and new best practices after the on site review

Knowledge / Skills / Experience

• Has degree or equivalent
• Ability to work across organizations and levels Logistics leadership (e.g. Cluster Logistics Heads, Global Logistics Transformation Region Leads, etc.) in Delivery as the sparring partner
• Has proven leadership experience of running cluster programs in Manex, Logex, PG
• Has strong interpersonal skills: can coach, motivate, and convince stakeholders from different levels and markets by using the right structure, style and level of detail
• Has and/or can develop understanding of performance drivers
• Has commercial acumen
• Ability to create inspirational, realistic and achievable plans
• Ability to drive a community
• Ability to manage differences across cultures