Job Opportunities at Unilever

Job Purpose: 

• Provide co-ordination of the team activities and management of the monthly/quarterly cadence within promo hub
• Support in building capability within the team (L1 & L2) to create recommendations of optimised promotional plans, input into forecasting cycle with End-to-End Management of promotions (accruals, forecasting, month end activities)
• Drive strategic initiatives within Customer Operations, CD, Finance to improve Promotional Spend
• Lead all audit activities and periodic control testing to ensure risk mitigation.

Principal activities of the job on which most of the time is spent: 

• Coordinate team activities and management of in month cadence of business cycle, support and get involved in with Sales analyst activities to support where required across accounts.
• Responsible for Promo approvals, ensuring SOA and SOP adherence.
• Support teams and build capabilities where required in creation of promotional plan (volume & TTS) by using data analytics from historical promotional performance and ROI to provide recommendations to the CD team.
• Support in managing all promohub reporting and comms to align to business cadence in forecast deadlines and accruals in month; including and establishing a reconciliation process for ensuring planned activities are ensuring all elements on contracts to ensure compliance with the accounting and Compliance regulation.
• Support in defining process and building capability within promohub to utilise all tools and financial information to identify risks and opportunities.
• Co-ordination and participation in promo planning activities to feed into the business plan aligned and CCD promo kits are clearly translated into effective promotional activities.
• Where required, engage with Business Leadership (CD, Finance) and other cross functional partners.

Scope / Sphere of Influence – Internal / external and nature of this interface: 

• Internal - Collaborate with CD / Finance/ /Global/ Audit /CG Develop and maintain good working relationships. Escalate inefficiencies & hold business partners accountable.
• External - Collaborate with CG Claims Team, Development and maintain good working relationships. Escalate inefficiencies & hold business partners accountable.

Leadership Competency requirements: 

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organization and follow through skills.
• Results and process-oriented
• Trustworthy, strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Strong Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Adaptable and flexible (ability to multi-task)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and business partnering skills.
• Ability to manipulate and manage large amounts of data.
• Superior execution skills in a changing environment.
• Strong analytical & diagnostic skills
• Strong leadership skills

Skills, Knowledge & Experience requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Business essential, preferred postgraduate in Finance
• Knowledge of S&OP processes advantageous
• Financial and Budget acumen
• Excellent Analytical skills
• Technology and process improvement
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• 5 years FMCG experience in either CD Finance, Supply Chain
• Advanced user of MS Office applications essential Power BI, Data Lakes
• Intermediate to advanced experience in enterprise reporting platforms (Power BI)
• Solid experience in creating, editing database driven reporting with ability to modify existing templates.
• Experience with SAP/ ERP systems essential 

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Main Job Purpose:

• The Execution Planner (RMPM) is the Planning representative at Unilever’s factories from RMPM perspective. The role Material Scheduling: receives the Production Schedule - and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers. 

Key Accountabilities:

Material Scheduling

• Schedule the delivery of materials with Suppliers, monitor delivery logistics (Call off)
• Liaise with local Suppliers to ensure material availability to meet schedules and define and execute corrective actions when necessary.
• Manage and resolve week 0 to 1 material availability crises with suppliers.
• Execute SLOB management actions proposed by the Inventory Optimisation Specialist
• Maintain delivery due list with inbound warehouse personnel.
• Ensure the tracking document is populated with integrity of materials by ensuring prompt write offs of obsolete stocks (following global policy)
• Recommend changes on POs to L2 team (MRP Coordinator)

Liaison with other parties:

• Escalate to Procurement planned material availability issues.
• Liaise with inbound stores on overdue deliveries and follow up with suppliers.
• Liaise with inbound stores and Suppliers for most desirable delivery days.
• Liaise with Suppliers of rejected materials and ensure that all materials are returned to the suppliers.
• Ensure that all GRN on materials on week 0 to 1 are capture timelessly, and if not escalate to the Market & Site Collaboration Planner
• Advise Suppliers of all changes in stock holding policy to ensure that stock is appropriately managed.

Transition Management:

• Manage RMPM material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, 5S projects, working closely with the MRP Coordinator to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained.
• Ensure material availability for RMPM on week 0 to 1 – production trials, ramp up and ramp down.
• Provide input into MOC for RMPM

Working Capital Management

• Work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels for bulks are maintained both on-site and at the suppliers to ensure material availability.
• Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) raw and packaging materials and ensure that provisions are raised timeously.

Data Maintenance

• Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable.
• Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation.
• Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
• Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates.
• Perform regular scheduling data health checks.

Reporting

• Ensure the plant shortage report is issued weekly.
• Professional Skills & Standards of Leadership

ESSENTIAL

• Future fit planning skills is an advantage (Curiosity and Agility; Impact through technology)
• Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred. An engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage.
• Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial.
• A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential.
• Planning and functional business process knowledge
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results.
• Strong change, service and agile mindset
• Strong accountability and responsibility
• Standards of Leadership: Personal mastery; Agility

Experience Required: 

ESSENTIAL

• 1-3 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
• Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes.
• Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes
• Experience in managing external parties.
• Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.

PREFERRED 

• FMCG experience

Travel:

• Candidate must be willing to travel locally to other factories in an infrequent basis.

Contacts:

Internal:

• Factory management and operational teams
• Inbound stores
• L1 Planning team. 
• Procurement Teams

External: 

• L2 Planning Hub
• Material Suppliers

What You Get: Challenges of the job & experience to be gained.

• Opportunity to work with and optimizing the systems in order to delivery improved planning results. 
• Combine several constraints and often divergent objectives.
• Team working with different functions.
• Working with suppliers & managing their development and performance 
• Clear vision of the supply chain processes.

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The Unilever Employee Experience Internship Programme is now open for applications and we are looking for the next potential young talent to join our Employee Experience department covering off experience in a robust internship program developing you in outstanding employee operations and other business services including HR Operations, Data Management, Payroll, Facilities Management, Time and Attendance. After 2 years, you will not only have theoretical knowledge but fantastic on the job experience to support your future career.

Qualification Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree in HR
• Over 65% academic average
• As an Intern you will be taken through 24 months rotational development programme across our Employee Experience Department.
• Must have less than 2 years working experience post studies
• A drive to achieve ambitious performance objectives and quality standards
• Passionate about the Unilever brand
• Good with people interaction
• Great communication skills
• Goal-driven
• Digitally Savvy
• Active learner