Unilever Careers

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are passionate about developing and executing sales strategies, meet and exceed sales targets, building and maintaining strong customer relationships, analyzing sales data and ensuring efficient sales operations   then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Determine infrastructural requirement of a distributor for a particular territory including working capital required.
• Determine and prepare distributor sales and KPI targets using the Joint Business Plan toolkit.
• Ensure that working capital is effectively managed by constantly monitoring stocks, debtors and cash positions to meet the right norms.
• Build excellent relationships at KD and at POP level   
• Set up the distributor team by recruiting the right skills, right numbers and training through field coaching to deliver assigned targets.
• Set targets for all distributor team and review performance constantly through market floor meetings to ensure target achievement.
• Ensure that KD is profitable by using the ROI toolkit to monitor income and expenditure and report on monthly actions to improve.
• Ensure weekly submission of KD extracts used in raising orders for the KDs
• Prepare beat plans for KD sales team to ensure effective & efficient coverage of assigned territory with all product categories
• Prospects, negotiates and initiates local actions in line with company policies
• Ensure the availability of the right product assortment at the right channel at the right price.
• Ensure achievement of the Field capability score by meeting targets for coverage, lines per call and bill productivity
• Building capability of distributor sales team through full day sales accompaniment and field coaching.
• Submission of weekly and monthly reports – weekly sales report, ROI and profitability report, working capital analysis report and safety reports.

Experiences & Qualifications

• At least 3 years Sales experience with minimum 2 years in FMCG environment
• Bachelor’s degree in business management or economics
• Strong excel skills & analytical skills

Skills

• Customer management and selling essentials ·
• Point of purchase execution and monitoring skills ·
• Development of sales infrastructures and Organisation ·
• Development of Customer/ Channel Investment Strategy ·
• Developing Customer Relationships ·
• Team management and Strong organization capacity
• Retailer Understanding

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are looking to transform the Oral Care landscape in Kenya, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Innovations

• Lead Network meetings and land on-going innovations OTIF  
• Elaborate and execute a 100-day launch plan for these new products.
• Follow up on existing innovations: tracking against BC, MS, distribution, EPOS, OSA, pricing vs competition.

Consumer & market knowledge  

• In-depth consumer & shopper understanding (through MS analysis, consumer visits and trade visits & monthly sales + distribution reports analysis)
• Translate numbers and on ground observations into actionable opportunities that will help us win in the market.
• Rigorous tracking of consumer and trade pricing on GT and MT channels
• Rigorous tracking of competitors activities in the market and adapt plans while bringing added value thru best practices.
• Explore new demand spaces that can differentiate vs competition.

S&OP process   

• Full attendance and ownership of the S&OP meetings for Oral Care, to deliver FY flexible goals.
• Drive discussions and alignments with relevant stakeholders (mainly CCD, Demand planer, production planer & finance) and give full clarity about the cycle’s output in terms of variance and financial impact.  
• Lead Kenya in terms of consolidation and reporting of all the changes/ impacts on the P&L, coming from all subcategories.

Promotions & activations

• We have a resource dedicated for this job, but each ABM is responsible of the strategic planning of promotions as well as ensure a high standard execution that will help us win in the market.
• Similarly for activations, the ABM is responsible of planning activations that fits with the brand’s strategy and purpose and ensure that the right scale and execution are in place vs competition.
• In this task specifically, the ABM will also need to have the ability to manage a resource with full autonomy.

Media & communication development

• Set winning KPIs
• Track and execute media plans

Others:

• Lead BMI management for total Oral Care

Experiences & Qualifications

• 2+ years classic brand management experience in an FMCG environment.
• Business management and brand development experience an added advantage.

Skills

• Brand Activity Planning
• Commercial Acumen
• Net Revenue Management
• Design for Channel
• Data Driven Innovation

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you.

The Customer Development Lead is responsible for development and execution of the customers and channels strategy and customer business plan, to achieve short and long-term business results. He/she owns the contacts with the customer and is the custodian of Customer and Channel understanding in Kenya market. He/she is responsible for development of CD excellence and market competitiveness within his/her team of account management. The role is also responsible to localize the Category Growth Strategy and executes strategically aligned commercial plan in market.

 If you are passionate about the development and execution of the customers and channels strategy and customer business plan, to achieve short and long-term business results then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Develop and manage the long and short-term plan for the relevant account(s)/channels in line with the agreed targets set in the strategic plan.
• Responsible for delivering the total annual sales plan, both in terms of topline growth and gross margin. 
• To manage the strategic interface between Unilever and the relevant Customer and set the strategic priorities for the Customer Business Plan. This involves developing excellent relationships with contacts in Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance.
• Achieve substantial business results on the Customer P&L
• To provide strong leadership of the account team and category strategy and planning teams. In particular, to provide ongoing coaching and development to ensure that the team members have the opportunity to realise their full potential.
• To establish and continuously develop the customer team framework for delivery of the long- and short-term plan. 
• To work closely with relevant stakeholders to develop and execute the overall Customer Development strategy and to contribute to the overall company strategy.
• Responsible for the development of Customer Development capabilities for the future.
• To build CD excellence and market competitiveness within his or her team, deploy core capabilities required to win by Channel and Customer, core skills such as Catman / Shopper / NRM
• Lead the Category Strategy and Planning Teams to deliver category growth opportunities and champion the Category strategies within the account.
• Provide leadership to the Category Strategy and Planning Teams to work closely with Brand, CMI, NRM to build customer sell-in
• To lead for the equity, diversity and inclusion ambition of the Customer Development function
• As a member of the Leadership Team, jointly responsible for operations, communication and the leadership of organisational and behavioural change

Experiences & Qualifications

Essential:

• 12+ years of Sales experience, preferably cross-functional
• Strong customer facing experience and proven track record is a must  
• Strong Category management experience
• Proven people management capabilities

Desirable:

Cross functional experience in Customer Marketing, Trade Category Management, Shopper Marketing and Field Sales operations.

Skills

• Developing and Implementing the Customer / Channel Business Plan
• Customer Management and Selling Essentials
• Optimising Promotion Sell-out
• Leveraging Strategic Customers
• Developing Customer Relationships
• Business Planning (S&OP)
• PoP Execution and Monitoring
• Business Strategy and Formulation
• Negotiation
• Innovation mindset
• Commerce channels execution and digital business models
• Commercial Strategy and Business Acumen / NRM
• Category Growth Management
• Data-Drive Mindset
• Customer and Retailer Understanding

Business & Leadership Skills

• Strategic thinking and writing
• Communication and storytelling
• Stakeholder Management
• Lateral Influence without Authority
• Process Thinking (Discipline)
• Ability to join the dots and show the big picture

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

• The Customer Development Lead is responsible for development and execution of the customers and channels strategy and customer business plan, to achieve short and long-term business results. He/she owns the contacts with the customer and is the custodian of Customer and Channel understanding in Kenya market. He/she is responsible for development of CD excellence and market competitiveness within his/her team of account management. The role is also responsible to localize the Category Growth Strategy and executes strategically aligned commercial plan in market.
• If you are passionate about the development and execution of the customers and channels strategy and customer business plan, to achieve short and long-term business results then this role is just for you.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Develop and manage the long and short-term plan for the relevant account(s)/channels in line with the agreed targets set in the strategic plan.
• Responsible for delivering the total annual sales plan, both in terms of topline growth and gross margin.
• To manage the strategic interface between Unilever and the relevant Customer and set the strategic priorities for the Customer Business Plan. This involves developing excellent relationships with contacts in Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance.
• Achieve substantial business results on the Customer P&L
• To provide strong leadership of the account team and category strategy and planning teams. In particular, to provide ongoing coaching and development to ensure that the team members have the opportunity to realise their full potential.
• To establish and continuously develop the customer team framework for delivery of the long- and short-term plan.
• To work closely with relevant stakeholders to develop and execute the overall Customer Development strategy and to contribute to the overall company strategy.
• Responsible for the development of Customer Development capabilities for the future.
• To build CD excellence and market competitiveness within his or her team, deploy core capabilities required to win by Channel and Customer, core skills such as Catman / Shopper / NRM
• Lead the Category Strategy and Planning Teams to deliver category growth opportunities and champion the Category strategies within the account.
• Provide leadership to the Category Strategy and Planning Teams to work closely with Brand, CMI, NRM to build customer sell-in
• To lead for the equity, diversity and inclusion ambition of the Customer Development function
• As a member of the Leadership Team, jointly responsible for operations, communication and the leadership of organisational and behavioural change

Essential
Experiences & Qualifications

• 12+ years of Sales experience, preferably cross-functional
• Strong customer facing experience and proven track record is a must
• Strong Category management experience
• Proven people management capabilities

Desirable

• Cross functional experience in Customer Marketing, Trade Category Management, Shopper Marketing and Field Sales operations.

Skills

• Developing and Implementing the Customer / Channel Business Plan
• Customer Management and Selling Essentials
• Optimising Promotion Sell-out
• Leveraging Strategic Customers
• Developing Customer Relationships
• Business Planning (S&OP)
• PoP Execution and Monitoring
• Business Strategy and Formulation
• Negotiation
• Innovation mindset
• Commerce channels execution and digital business models
• Commercial Strategy and Business Acumen / NRM
• Category Growth Management
• Data-Drive Mindset
• Customer and Retailer Understanding

Business & Leadership Skills

• Strategic thinking and writing
• Communication and storytelling
• Stakeholder Management
• Lateral Influence without Authority
• Process Thinking (Discipline)
• Ability to join the dots and show the big picture

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are Lead the Field Sales Force in achieving the sales objectives for the sales area as set in the Customer Marketing Plans and Customer Business Plans. Co-develop Field Sales Force Strategy together with National Sales Manager. Lead and plan sales resources in sales area. Lead sales force projects. Then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Sales Strategy Implementation: Implement regional sales strategies to achieve and exceed set business targets that are aligned with the broader company objectives, targeting the unique needs of professional customers in the territory.
• Customer Infrastructure & satisfaction: The ASM is responsible for ensuring a robust Customer Infrastructure is in place in the across the region and is supposed to optimize the quantity & quality of customers in his/her area such that there are no service gaps while ensuring adequate service levels for trade and financial viability for customers. Also monitors the financial health and profitability of all Customers.
• Establish Distributor Networks: Ability to set up reseller & distributor networks within the assigned territory.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and nurture strong relationships with key channel partners and important customers in the region, addressing inquiries and ensuring satisfaction.
• Territory Expansion: Work to identify and onboard new customers and distribution partners in the region to expand the customer base.
• Market Insights: Conduct in-depth market research to identify market opportunities, potential clients, and gather feedback from customers to enhance product offerings.
• Sales Reporting: Maintain accurate sales records and reports, analyzing data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Team Leadership: Manage and lead a team of Territory Sales Officers within the assigned area, ensuring they meet and exceed sales targets while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Product Knowledge and Training: Stay updated on Unilever Professional product offerings and industry trends. Provide ongoing product training and support to your team to ensure they are well-equipped to serve customers effectively.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments, such as marketing, operations, and customer support, to ensure seamless and exceptional customer experiences.
• Ensuring controls & financial hygiene: Along with Commercial & Supply Chain team, ASM is supposed to have check on system hygiene at customers on aspects like extent of sales return, extent of damage/ shortage claims, mismatch between primary & secondary, physical vs. book stock mismatch, trade discount.

Experiences & Qualifications Required:

• 3 to 5 years relevant field sales force experience and proven track record of achieving sales targets.
• Must demonstrate ability to lead and motivate the teams.
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• High level of Problem-Solving Skills & Presentation Skills

Desirable:

• Four years Brand Building experience is an advantage. Key Distributor management is essential.
• Three years of Trade Category Management is an advantage.

Skills

• Commercial Strategy
• Negotiation
• Executional Excellence
• Customer Relationship
• Channels
• Agile
• Innovation Mindset
• Leading in a Digital World

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. If you are passionate about providing high quality financial insights that drive right decisions for Business growth then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Strategic Partnering: Provide strategic financial leadership to the Supply Chain team in developing long term sourcing strategy, dynamic sourcing changes, resiliency programs, best-in-class costing to build significant competitive advantage for the business. Ownership for providing sound accounting and financial processes which seamlessly support the Supply Chain business objectives, strategies and organizational structure. 
• Performance Management: Actively contributing to driving profitability, managing risks and challenging the business teams, managing costs & profit drivers across Supply Chain; reviewing actuals vs forecasts and flagging issues to promote accountability and sending early warning signals to drive opportunities & mitigate risks. Lead on the development and use of data analytics to drive insights with a key focus on costs. 
• Product cost: Lead analysis and understand the impact of commodities price movement, and exchange rates to the cost and margin. Work closely with Procurement, Production & GTM teams on Purchase price review and analysis, understand the drivers of the cost movement, perform cost benchmarking and drive accountability on delivery of mitigating actions.  
• Cost Savings: Influence cost conscious culture into all cross functional teams, provide full visibility into cost to serve and best in class benchmarking and work closely with all business teams (Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Development) on new project, eg: new sourcing, alternative sourcing, cost saving project, Capex investment, new business flow, etc). Drive business case reviews, analysis of the cost and profitability, understanding each component of the cost, challenging the price and cost necessarily. 
• Controls, Risk Management & oversight: Drive the embedding of key controls within Supply Chain to eliminate wastage and leakages by driving process documentation and regular review and monitoring to identify potential control risks and recommending corrective actions.  
• Innovation & Capex: Lead innovation partnering process, including analysis of new business opportunities and Projects via business case preparation, strategize profitable business models, financial flow modelling, recommend best cost to serve model and risk mitigation. Drive development of financial framework to track post launch evaluation, make recommendation to delivery better KPIs. Design framework to track capex invested. 
• Supply Chain Finance capabilities: Lead the development of new digital capabilities & analytical capabilities giving the Supply Chain team tools to operate with high levels of efficiency & effectiveness. Determine and implement the systems, processes and analysis that provides the cross functional teams with consistent and comparable operational and financial data visibility. 
• Finance agenda & People Development:  Drive performance management, career planning, development planning and succession planning for team and self. Lead & drive the learning agenda within Supply Chain Finance, ensure the teams are well motivated, energized and upskilled to be a highly effective team supporting a fast paced and growing business. 
• Integrated business planning: Lead supply chain annual budgeting by engaging procurement manager on material cost projections, Production manager on factory budget and logistics manager on distribution budgets.
• Country category business group -Home Care finance representative: Finance Lead for Home Care Business Group

Key Interactions

• Supply Chain Director & Supply Chain Leadership Team
• Country/Cluster Category Teams
• Finance Director
• East Africa Finance Leadership Team

Experiences & Qualifications

• Overall 8-10 years working experience in Finance and preferably experience in various roles covering business controls, Business Partnering, Procurement, Financial analysis, Risk Management and Compliance. 
• Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related area
• Professional qualification in accounting e.g. ACCA, CIMA, CIA, CPA etc is preferred
• In-depth knowledge of operational & Financial processes including but not limited to costing and transfer pricing, Financial Accounting, capex management & Master data management 
• Commercial Support & Decision support through preparation of financial models & ROI Analysis 
• Strong analytical capabilities with bias to drive action 
• Advanced Microsoft office skills, SAP & BW operational knowledge 
• Knowledge on reporting tools like Power BI 

Skills

• Financial Accounting and reporting
• Driving Business performance
• Insightful Analytics
• Risk Management
• Financial Expertise
• Project Management

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. The IT Analyst’s role is to act as a representative for the whole of IT, including the IT Service lines, Global functional Business partnering and Innovation, with the geography business teams. If this is something that interests you, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

The main purpose of the IT Analyst is to support the Technology Lead East Africa in delivery of responsibilities. Within area of responsibilities*, the IT Analyst will:

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Engage with business teams within his/her area of responsibility to communicate and scope the IT plan aligned with overall IT plan.

INNOVATION ACTIVATION

• Undertake activation activities for Global IT Innovation & Service Line activation programs as required by IT Manager
• Undertake the relevant project execution and management activities to support Local Growth Programs working with Service Lines in the delivery of these projects.

LEGACY & HERITAGE SERVICES

• Undertake the necessary activities to provide L2/3 support for L&H applications within area of responsibility.
• Work with Global Innovation to provide necessary integration activities with L&H applications to support Global innovation programs.
• Undertake the necessary project management and application development activities for L&H Innovation projects within scope responsibilities.
• Effectively work with and manage vendors in delivery of application management of L&H Applications
• Assist with communication and resolution of Incidents for L&H applications.
• Input to review of L&H services within area of responsibility and help develop action plans for these.
• Undertake necessary activities to ensure achievement of L&H service improvement plans within area of responsibility.
• Ensure high level understanding off overall system architecture well understood and documented.
• Ensure IT analyst help file /playbook exist for all L&H within scope of responsibility.

EXISTING GLOBAL IT SERVICES

• Support the IT Manager to ensure effective delivery of day-to-day IT operations, ensuring that IT services delivered are as per business requirements.
• Align with Unilever standard operating practise in delivery of IT Services
• Input to review of Global services within area of responsibility and help develop action plans for these and track achievement of action plans within area of responsibility.
• Contribute to implementing key actions to address service improvement areas.
• Inputs to and helps define Geography demand for Services and communicates these to Service Lines
• Work with Global (HP,BT etc) & Local vendors in delivery of Global services where appropriate
• Manage the delivery of out-of-scope activities and maintenance of out-of-scope infrastructure as appropriate within scope of responsibilities.
• Assist with communication and coordination of status of Urgent Incidents within the Geography and understanding impact to support resolution of these incidents.
• Escalate unresolved incidents based on criticality to the IT Manager
• In the case of relevant incidents impacting core business processes, work together with the functions to activate BCP to minimize disruption.
• Participate in problem management activities within area of responsibility as required to support Service Line/Operations teams in resolving problems.
• Work with business teams to ensure that the benefits of the existing services and new/updated services within area of responsibility are achieved.

IT COSTS, PROCUREMENT & CONTROLS

• Assist with processing of actual costs as required within area of responsibility and tracks and ensures payment to local vendors.
• Assist with input of cost drivers to budget process including assisting in IT hardware and software requirement planning and budgeting.
• Supports hardware and software asset management activities as appropriate within area of responsibility within scope of responsibility.

COMPLIANCE & DRP

• Adhere to governance & compliance framework.
• Support Execution of DRP plans as appropriate within area of responsibility.

PMO

• Work with country manager to ensure input of key PMO activities for projects such as project status and clarity processes occur on time.

OTHER KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with 3P in Geography as appropriate
• Deliver activities to best leverage IT within area of responsibility.

Experiences & Qualifications

• 3 years minimum relevant working experience as an IT Analyst in an FMCG environment
• Desirable experience in; -
• Project Management
• ITIL V3 Foundation or higher
• Networking certification e.g. CCNA, CCNP
• Of added advantage will be relevant experience with IT systems 
• SAP background, working with vendors; active agile usage and experience in African markets.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree from a tertiary institution (Bachelor of Business & IT, Business science, BSC, Computer Science, Information Systems) with 3 yrs minimum relevant working experience as an IT Analyst in an FMCG environment
• Strong, Network, Server (Wintel Backend) and Voice experience
• Exposure to supporting global and projects operations experience.
• Relevant experience with IT systems in one of the areas of responsibility*,
• SAP background, working with vendors; active agile usage and experience in African markets.
• Experience illustrating strong standards of leadership based on Unilever dictionary will also be valued.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

The Bulk Offloading Liquids Operator is responsible for checking bulk liquids levels, circulation, inspection and transfer of the chemicals, spill control, material transfer safety, offloading bays, tank farm and area workplace governance and organization.  As a core member of the operations team, the bulk liquids operator plays an important role in maintaining process safety and will identify process or line issues to leaders.

They are also responsible for the safe operation of liquid holding and transfer equipment to deliver to manufacturing areas as per the required production plan, adhering to quality standards and maximising cost effectiveness, optimal running and equipment efficiency. 

They are also expected to carry out cleaning and inspection, troubleshooting, maintenance activities and record any issues/problems with the equipment to pass to the Technical Operator to resolve.  The Bulk liquids transfer operator should master the operation of the equipment in order to provide factory resilience.

JOB SUMMARY / RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Technical
• Knowledge and application of technical skills to Operate machinery safely and effectively in order to meet the production plan.  Conduct cleaning and lubrication as required.
• Possess a basic knowledge of the principles of mechanism, motion and pneumatics.
• Maintain machinery to the prescribed standards and levels of cleanliness. 
• Understand properties of materials being handled.  Able to perform correct adjustment and setting.
• Proactively work with Professional Maintenance and Quality Control staff to achieve zero breakdowns and zero defects.
• Carry out line changeovers/washouts to maintain quality standards whilst minimizing the impact to the production plan.
• Safety –Utilise all appropriate safety and environmental procedures relating to the Sourcing Unit and allocated equipment to ensure a safe working environment for the whole team.  Understand the legal responsibility placed upon individuals.  Ensure that spills are prevented and if otherwise all spills are handled in an appropriate manner in order to minimize the environmental impact and rectify the damage done to the environment if any. Ensure that all bunded areas are cleaned and free of any accumulation of raw material, water or a mix of both.
• Workplace Hazards - Full knowledge of the workplace and hazards within it.  Utilise all appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products and equipment relevant to the task.
• Environment - Reduce costs due to waste (spillages) and minimize impact to health, safety and the environment through working to eliminate waste and through the correct handling of waste and hazardous materials.  Must actively contribute to an eco-efficient environment.
• Quality Checks and Assessments. Carry out truck inspection and sampling for analysis and escalation of any non-conformances to leaders for action. Monitoring and Quality assurance tasks require an adequate level of sight and smell.
• Continuous Improvement – Knowledge and understanding of the key principles of UMS and an awareness of the tools used to identify and prioritise losses in the production area and eliminate them; role requires data. Monitor measures and performance after initial improvements and take further action as required.
• Start-Up/Shutdown procedures - Carries out pre-start-up checks and post maintenance checks to ensure that the area and equipment is clean and is in a safe condition as per the SOP.  Shutting down equipment and the area as per the SOP.
• Cleaning –Performs initial inspection and cleaning as per SOPs.  Will alert team leaders to potential sources of contamination, spillage and dirt identified in inaccessible places.
• Material Availability –Taking daily dips and recording bulk liquid stocks, offloading of bulk liquids and provision of continuous supply of bulk liquids from storage areas to demarcated storage areas as per existing 5S standards. 
• Administration – Conducts effective hand-over activities and accurately records events that have occurred during shift (daily stocks, environmental near miss and incidents etc).
• Communication – Can adequately communicate issues relating to safety and can provide operational observations and inputs to support decision makers by team leaders.
• Physical Ability – Machine Operators require a level of agility to move quickly between workstations, ascend and descend steps.  Assembly and control operations also require a level of hand eye coordination and finger dexterity. 
• Problem Solving – A Working Knowledge of how to identify, prioritise and address problems using appropriate tools and techniques that eliminate recurrence.  Must demonstrate initiative.
• Decision Making -   Can make decisions to reject non-compliant material and to support the work plan for the day.
• Teamwork – Must be a good team player capable of working within a highly effective team; responsible, supportive and able communicator.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Must be flexible within pattern of shift work to accommodate factory shutdowns, training courses etc.

Professional Qualifications:

• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or relevant field

Experience Required:

• Proven experience of at least 2 years as a machine operator, preferably in bulk liquids offloading or similar industries
• Strong mechanical aptitude and understanding of machinery operation
• Applicant must be a committed team worker with a strong sense of responsibility and good attention to detail.  Effective communication skills and an agile mind are essential.

PREFERRED / DESIRABLE:

• Experience of manufacturing in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company is desirable but not essential.
• IT Skills – competent in the use of Microsoft Office; Excel and Word programmes is preferred.

Purpose of role:

The Source to Pay (S2P) Market Operations role plays an integral part of the Commercial Experience (ComEx) organisation - at the heartbeat of Unilever, having a future fit operation, focus on Resilience, Fuel for Growth, and managing Future growth within our evolving organisation.

Globally we manage over 60k vendors across more than 82 markets supporting our key business groups - Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Homecare, Nutrition, and Ice cream, through the UniOps organisation.

Our Markets S2P role enables deployment of experience solutions and key transformation programmes and are the glue between Procurement and Suppliers helping execute sourcing activities for indirect items such as MBS, Capex, MRO and Logistics.

We ensure the steps required to have a purchase requisition raised and a purchase order created are completed and capture the relevant information at each stage of the process; we also play an important role ensuring suppliers are compliant with all of the relevant Unilever policies and wider business regulations.​​​​​​​ To do this we liaise with Markets and Portfolios to facilitate transactions and progressively ensure we drive value to the business, either through cash saving or preventing price leakages.

We interface with both supplier and strategic run partners to optimize processes and drive better sourcing practices to benefit all parties. Those who work with us benefit from our strong focus on the user experience, and their mature risk and control processes.

Role responsibilities

The Source to Pay regional role will be responsible for the complete management with forward thinking solutions improving end user experiences. 

As part of this delivery, the role encompasses the delivery of the S2P Finance Processes with the objective of exceeding best in class metrics end to end S2P process for selected countries, mainly through third-party outsourced providers (IBM, Accenture, AMEX, Citi, etc).

The S2P manager has sole responsibility over full delivery of the Global Unilever Process Model for specific countries within the UniOps P2P transformation scope.

The person working in this role will be the critical link between MCO being service recipient and 3PSP where the Services are performed. S/He will act as P2P process owner for his/her region and will be accountable for 3PSP service and delivery in front of MCOs in scope .

The S2P service line is responsible for:

• Accounts Payable processes (AP)
• Contract to Pay finance process supporting Procurement networks including
  Indirect (MBS) and Direct Procurement (Packaging, Chemicals, CM, Logistics), Travel and employee expense processes including credit cards.
• Global Process Models encompassing S2P
• Accountability and efficiency of TPSPs supporting Unilever MCOs being service recipient and TPSP where the finance S2P role acts as process owners for his/her region.
• Delivery of the Uniops S2P Transformation scope, leveraging digitisation and analytical technology to improve reporting analytics.
• Drive transformation and savings projects, relevant to further streamline operations
• Service: Ensure the IHD (supplier help desk) improves service end users experience as well as suppliers, increasing user end perception, supporting business critical escalations, and ensuring fast resolutions are provided.
• Collaboration, facilitate user training to improve awareness of contracting and finance functions to drive down finance related queries.  Having an extensive knowledge of procurement networks and systems such as Coupa, ICAT, SAP would be a good advantage to support the role, to drive resolutions faster resulting in enhanced ways of working supporting procurement, planning, suppliers, AP and FC functions.
• Drive resilience and compliance 
• Drive capabilities and transformation
• Develop Talent and capability within the S2P team

Accountability (Deliverable Outputs):

• Overall management and control (through KPIs/SLAs/OLAs plus internal, external and ZBC audit requirements) of P2P processes in dedicated countries
• Leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs
• Making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our ways of working
• Building a professional services organization with 3PSP and other stakeholders of the P2P process (i.e., Procurement officers, Global Portfolio team, IT Teams, external suppliers of UL, group of ca. 20.000 P2P users in Europe, MCO local finance leaders) to deliver best in class P2P process for Unilever
• developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements
• Working closely with P2P Process Office and Procurement Services to develop practical solutions to performance improvement initiatives
• Drive end-to-end continuous improvement mindset, enabled by Lean Six Sigma root cause analysis techniques.
• Leading Projects acting as Project Manager for the top down and bottom-up initiatives, as well as being SPOC and SME in projects led centrally within the P2P functional area
• Ensure that respective high profile stakeholders from MCOs (UL WL3+) are fully briefed about P2P processes in their regions and manage through dependencies with them in order to achieve all key BFS P2P service line metrics
• Escalate to P2P Service and Delivery Junior Manager items that are not to be resolved on his/her own level.

Stakeholder contacts

Internal:

• MCO Finance Team, Financial Controller
• Global Service Director for P2P  
• Directs Procurement Teams Networks
• Indirect’s Procurement/business users
• Planning Teams
• P2P users
• R2R Teams
• Global PEC teams  

External:

• 3rd Party Service Providers
• Unilever suppliers

Competencies:

• External Orientation (focus on customer; deliver excellent result)
• Action Not Debate (makes decisions under uncertainty, ensures great execution)
• Team Alignment (team player; supports and respects others)
• Working in partnership with clients, vendors and service providers

Skills:

• Effective communications both written and oral in English
• Project Management & Change Management Facilitation
• Analytics
• Performance improvement
• Organisational Awareness
• Negotiation beneficial, exposure to senior stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure with often conflicting internal targets
• Strong Excel skills
• Enhance stakeholder experience
• Storytelling
• Strategy
• Working knowledge of SAP (preferred, not necessary)

Experience:

• University Graduate / Qualified accountant /Engineering (or similar experience)
• 6-8 years’ experience in Finance/Supply chain in business partnering an advantage
• Strong knowledge of key Finance and Procurement Contracting processes in S2P area
• High Financial / Supply chain skills
• Service Delivery experience beneficial
• Leadership, collaboration, which will support/challenge/improve ways of working within the S2P area.