Job Title: Unilever International – Supply Chain Head of Planning & Operations

Department: Unilever International

Profession: Supply Chain

Location: Singapore

Main Job Purpose:

Supply Chain Operations includes the processing, and operational control towers for managing all transactions pertaining to import-export operations, including customer service, supply planning, order processing, invoicing, and documentation.

Managing the overall supply planning Planning function for Singapore based business verticals in Unilever International. Key job scope includes:

• Operational Supply Planning
• Capacity Interlocking to support business growth (both medium term and long term)
• Sourcing Network Optimization
  Inventory PlanningPerformance Management
• Implement Digitization

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

To be the key point of accountability for the functioning of the Control Tower, which comprise of Unilever staff located in Singapore as well as an outsourced team.

• To be the custodian of all master data for the cross-border flows.
• Prepare a blueprint and project funnel for E2E operational capability program: Take survey and look at different KPIs and priorities for impact.
• Management of Outsourcing partner for transactions processing.
• To assess requirement of resources (in-house and outsourced) for the processing and control tower operations, Documentation management with the increase in volume of operations at the SC Ops unit and take necessary action to de-couple growth from back-office cost.
• Lead process improvements and change management as part of digital and transformation programs.
• Support new business models, acquisitions/divestitures, and any other projects requirements as an enabler to UI growth.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and guidance to E2E SC Teams located in Singapore.
• Responsible for development and performance management of all direct reports
• Represent the SC within Singapore, building and developing relationships with Marketing, Finance, Business Development and key Customers/Clients
• Business partnering business team to maximize turnover from SC network.
• Partner with Central Transformational, Planning, Logistics and Service Excellence Teams to drive continuous improvement and digitization agenda in Singapore region.
• Be part of Global SCLT & improve and deliver global S&OP and LTCP agenda.
• Conduct effective dialogue on assumptions and articulation of facts and evidence.
• Negotiate and influence the local decision-making process as part of S&OP
• Optimize global logistics operations and costs considering global logistics industry challenges.
• Represent our entity in the upstream Supply Chain, building and maintaining relevant relationships with Sourcing Units to deliver high performance.
• Identify, develop, and drive Singapore sourcing resilience program with Central Team to ensure supply to global markets
• Managing supply chain cost by optimizing network

Overall: Drive a UI-fit I Ops design – Structure, Ops with tech backing it.

Project Management

• Work with market leads to ensure all new product launches are achieved on time and minimize impact to service, cost, inventory and operational effectiveness.
• Business partner commercial team to ensure maximize turnover in each geography by analyzing gaps in supply plan and come up with mitigation plans.

The roles of duties are not exhaustive and may change according to business requirements.

ROLE QUALIFICATIONS:

Preferred

• FMCG experience PREFERRED Candidates with APICS certification.
• Process Excellence / Six Sigma Certification
• Import-export operations, Customer Service, Supply Planning, Documentation management
• Business process mapping and re-engineering
• Root cause analysis and problem-solving ability
• Ability to work with outsourced partners and managed them through SLAs.
• Digital transformation and change management

Essentials

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 15 or more years’ experience in Supply Chain with at least 7 years of management experience.
• E2E supply chain experience ideally within customer service, planning and logistics.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to operate as a global virtual team
• Strong commitment to Customer Service through Requirements Planning, and a thorough understanding of the impact of their activity on the company and the customer’s businesses.
• Strong communication as well as excellent team working skills
• Strong Business Acumen including finance, market, business and customer
• Simplification and Agile mindset
• Consumer and Customer Focus
• Analytical thinking
• Creativity
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills to manage multiple stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with excellent analytical and quantitative skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and spoken communication in English
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Experience in international operations
• Familiar with multicultural and international environment

Travel:

(Please make it clear if the job will require travel within the country or abroad and give an idea of how often the candidate will need to be away from home.)

Could include some travel; need basis only.

You will be a Finance business partner to the Consumer Goods Business Unit with a focus on Asia, and be responsible for management reporting, analysis, performance tracking and issue management, decision support, budgeting/planning and working capital control. You will also support global/local Finance projects.

General responsibilities:

• Finance Business Partnering to the local teams
• Drive self-learning and improvement in the area of Business Controlling
• Navigate the BU performance with vast knowledge and skills on the country financial performance, its potential and remove constraints along the processes
• Working closely with Group and Local Business Unit Management teams and country finance to improve the in the aspect of business partnering, strategy, business performance and results
• Drive annual target setting process within the region.
• Establish targets together with local/regional management
• Prepare presentations and monthly and quarterly reports to Senior Management
• Analyze monthly performance based on various data sources to derive a consistent picture of current performance, key issues and action items
• Provide proactive, in-depth analysis and subsequent challenges for the region on key financial items such as working capital, profitability and cost development
• Good knowledge of the business, variance analysis, working capital management, coordination with the countries on inventory purchases and customer receivables
• Work in collaboration with Business Partners and key stakeholders to drive transformation
• Participate and drive within the region continuous improvement initiatives to streamline business and finance processes/reporting and improve efficiencies through a better utilization of automated systems (Lighthouse, MORE, PowerBI and etc.)
• Work with local finance business partners to drive consistency of analytics and reporting. Drive high quality business control support to the region

Requirements:

• Degree or professional qualification in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
• Minimum 10 years experience in a similar role, preferably with regional exposure
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership skills

Interested candidates please apply/forward your resume to [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

Job Description

Sales:

· Achieving monthly and quarterly sales targets for S P Jain’s Global range of corporate education programs in Singapore and other assigned regions as appropriate

· Expanding the corporate education client network in the designated regions

· Managing existing corporate network and key accounts and expanding targeted revenues from them

· Identify specific corporate education and training needs on an ongoing basis for open ended and corporate education programs.

· Coordinating with the professors to design and deliver programs.

· Ensuring optimum visibility & merchandising of brands

Brand Management:

· Design and Implement promotions & marketing activities pertaining to corporate education.

· Reporting & analysis of sales & forecasting of monthly/quarterly sales plan

· Analysing market intelligence (Institutions, market share, competitor activity)

Corporate Relations:

· Sourcing for new companies for fulltime employment & internships via cold calling, LinkedIn Search etc.

· Maintaining & enhancing relations with exciting corporate partners

· Assist in organising networking and guest speaker’s events for current students.

· Provide internship administrative roles from matching and sourcing job roles.

· Database maintenance of corporates and internal reports

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably sales/business administration or sales-related course.
• At least min 8 years of experience in the higher education industry or relevant industry
• Strong oral & written communication skills
• Results-driven
• Strong passion for sales
• Positive and enthusiastic to learn new things.
• Mature and Professional in communication