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England, United Kingdom

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Adding new scope on top of previous role, leading Sustainability data management, data analytics, annual reporting, digital Sustainability sourcing strategy, insights and capability building, including 4 Sustainability Goals of Unilever: Climate, Nature, Plastic, and Livelihood. Leader of Artificial Intelligence strategy and use case development in Procurement & Sustainability.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Report to Unilever group CPO. Leader of the scaled up Strategy & Insights 2.0 team (70 people globally), to drive Procurement strategy and value driven insights into 5 Business Groups of Unilever.Leader of CMI for Procurement program to drive leading edge Procurement and Business competitiveness assessment vs external competitions.Leader of Procurement digital transformation program across direct and indirect.Leader of Procurement Analytics and Insights Hub 2.0 with inhouse data experts creating pioneering use cases embracing AI/ML technology.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Lead Procurement Strategy & Insights Team consisted by over 40 experts of over 16 nationalities and operating in 10 locations globally. We serve as the nerve center of the Unilever Procurement organization, drive procurement strategy development across all direct and indirect portfolios, generate insights from new market trends and converting into value for the business, drive value chain integration and redesign project, and lead procurement data analytics and digital transformation, and build key capabilities and strategic and digital talents for the Unilever business.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

CPO of Unilever North Asia Retail and Foods Solution business in China mainland, Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, and Korea markets.My job covers full direct and indirect business spend of raw and packaging materials, logistic, capex and supply chains services, as well as marketing and business services with total spend of 1.8bn EUR. Leading a team of 60 people, I am directly managing 60% of the total spend with E2E responsibility and 40% supported by Unilever global portfolio procurement team on strategic sourcing.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Procurement and global sourcing: Soft Commodities (cocoa, chocolate, dairy, sugar, starch and starch derivatives) global network, managing Asia Pacific.Supply strategy development: re-shape in-depth Asia Pacific strategy moving from short term supply service oriented to long term value integration and transformation oriented, and embed into global strategy. Implement key strategy into actions into business units.Supplier negotiations and relationship management: strong delivery on cash and cash, implement Sustainable sourcing projects, support global joint business development plan and driving robust Asia agenda with key Unilever global partners, developing new partnership relationships.Strategic project management and implementation: new agriculture sourcing origin development, inter cropping model study closing loops; trading network optimization for commodity portfolio and global trade management project.Business partnering understand ice cream, food and beverage industry and business needs, support innovation and capacity building, better communicate and mitigate market volatility of commodities, building more and better hedging capabilities into Asia with high volatility and market barriers.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Procurement and global sourcing: petrochemical portfolio in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Americas. Supply strategy development: driving global LAB, AO, SI, SLI strategy development, in-depth value chain analysis, rationalize supplier strategy, losing loops on carbon distribution from crude, integrate business needs with new capacity building plan and early engagement on sizable industry investment. Support global sulphonation strategy development and reshape AOS supply network.Supplier negotiations and relationship management: very strong VIP and cash delivery, transform the business relationship and way of working with key global suppliers, and lead the joint business development plan.Strategic project management and implementation: driving new capacity building and new greenfield evaluation of LAB, SI, SLI. Upstream influencing: development of LAB alternative feedstock N Paraffin from different source and technology.Business partnering: drive new forecasting process, forecast accuracy analysis and business reporting, design new key performance measurement on behalf on Petrochemical network, hedge accounting support.Talent building: very active in internal consultancy, coaching and mentoring program; one of the designers and organizers of procurement entrepreneur game in Dubai hub.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Procurement and regional sourcing: tail chemical materials portfolio in Africa, Middle East, and Turkey.Supplier negotiations and tendering: cash cost value creation, strategy development, tender management.Portfolio restructure and change management: consolidate volume, scale and resource for the tail chemical materials within the region, simplify supplier network and process, logistic capability development, to achieve business complexity reduction and value creation.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Procurement and regional sourcing: inorganic chemicals portfolio in Asia Africa Middle East and Turkey. Supplier negotiations and relationship management: cash cost value creation, strategy development, supply crisis management.China export desk business development and operation.Builder industry exiting wave management: contingency planning, business terminations and capacity closure, and resource restructure management.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Procurement operation and domestic supplier development: full chemical portfolio in China.Co packing business development and sourcing: China home care category.Global innovation sourcing: Chinese low cost supplier development in global innovation project.

Assignment to JV company to setup up the procurement operation process, build up team and capability for non-productive items, including capax, MRO, logistic, marketing and HR services.

New York, New York, Us

- Supply chain management trainee, rotated in different roles in manufacturing, planning and purchasing within oral care business.