UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR A LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE MANAGER EUROPE

Location: Weena, Rotterdam – the Netherlands

Full-time

Local conditions apply

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

This role works close with operations, procurement, and strategy teams in Logistics and very close to the Business Unit (BU) Planning, Operations, Finance, and Innovation teams and lead our in-year service and costs target, drive continuous improvement (CI) together and support landing key structural programs.
Understands BU/Channel specific business requirements and delivers against targeted plans. Ensures visibility of cost, service, inventory options from which the BU decides.
Collaborate as part of the End to end (E2E) Supply Chain (SC) team on End to End SC synchronization: the right (future) network design, pallet design, capacity and route to market setup is in place building on logistics infrastructure in place, or developed.
Ensure transparency of Performance while delivering desired outcomes (cost, service, safety, quality and sustainability) in the short-term, in the mid-term through leading CI projects and in the long term by participating in landing the key transformational projects (network and capabilities) with the BU team and the logistics EU teams.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Business Unit /Channel specific logistics annual plan development

• Business Unit /Channel specific logistics scorecard and results owner including data accuracy and democratization of all reporting across BU and Logistics

• Target framework construct and alignment with Bu and EU Log team

• Synchronization review with Root cause analysis & Gap closure plans across stakeholders and delivering desired outcomes.

• Threshold/guardrails for execution

• RCA & gap closure plans

• Identify and land CI opportunities E2E incl Cost to serve (C2S) across stakeholders and BU trade-offs.

• Key member of the transformational project teams (both from BU and from Logistics Europe like network design)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Alignment across all markets & stakeholders of masterplan

• Business requirements completion for the BU to complete all planning cycles.

• BU/Channel specific scorecard deployment following all reporting requirements.

• Facilitation performance management with BU, CO leads, physical logistics and finance

• Member of the BU SC LT and the Logistics Performance team

• Understand Logistics Market best practice and competitor’s environment.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HAVE

• Business Acumen

• Logistics Operations Acumen

• Financial Acumen

• Leadership & Influencing Skills

• Matrix Stakeholder management

• Executive presence

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• Business Units – Operating Model & Business Requirements Definitions & Selections, Target Framework, Threshold/Guardrails, Performance Management

• Strategy & Innovation – Two-way Master Plan communication & business requirements, capacity planning

• Operational Excellence – Insights and Analytics for Opportunity identification, Gap closure & Operational improvement plans

• Physical Operations in countries & Katowice – Target framework setting, performance management, gap closure & improvement plans

• Finance - Target framework setting, performance management and underlying forecasting

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office , you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Home work allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you!

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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