Procurement Operations Manager Cmrp Job In Hindustan Unilever In India, Bengaluru / Bangalore

Job Title: Procurement Operations Manager - CMRPLocation: BengaluruABOUT UNILEVER:Be part of the world's most successful, purpose-led business Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow and we believe in business as a force for good Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes use your energy to make this happen Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best.

Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life - giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter futureEvery individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work Join us and you'll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers Among them, you'll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we'll work to help you become a better you.

ABOUT UNIOPS:Unilever Operations (UniOps) is the global technology and operations engine of Unilever offering business services, technology, and enterprise solutions UniOps serves over 190 locations and through a network of specialized service lines and partners delivers insights and innovations, user experiences and end-to-end seamless delivery making Unilever Purpose Led and Future FitBusiness ContextUnilever is a business founded in 1890s with a strong belief in social purpose, and our unique heritage still shapes the way we do business todayWe are one of the world's leading consumer goods companies, making and selling around 400 brands in more than 190 countries, 51B in revenues and a global presence across Europe, Americas and Asia/AMET/RUB Over 2.

5 billion people use our products to feel good, stay healthy and make their lives easier That's about a third of the global population choosing from household names such as Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Hellmann's, and local brands like Bango in Indonesia and Suave in the USUnilever's Purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and this is underpinned by The Unilever Compass: Purpose-Led, Future-Fit is our new, single growth strategy based on three beliefs Brands with purpose grow, Companies with purpose last, People with purpose thrive Our vision is to be the global leader in sustainable business We will demonstrate how our purpose-led, future-fit business model drives superior performance, consistently delivering financial results in the top third of our industry.

Our sustainable living brands are inspiring people because they do good for society, environment, and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals Our sustainable living brands grew 46% faster than our other brands and accounted for 70% of total growthUnilever is focussed on delivering to the 5 fundamentals of growth as outlined below:Business Operations is a global organization focussed on simplifying and digitizing Unilever's operations for unlocking growth and creating value by making our processes and systems simpler, integrated, and easier to work with We are redesigning and digitally rewiring our operations to enable Unilever to grow profitably and sustainably in the future We also want to transform the experience of working at and doing business with Unilever - making it easy, user friendly and more like the one click world.

We are fully digitizing to transform the way information and insights flow across the business and functionsThis means freeing our people's time and talents to focus on growth thus, uunlocking capacity and delivering Fuel for growth by increasing people's ability to focus on customers and consumers through' delivering a truly Future Fit Operations across our multi stakeholder modelWithin UniOps, the Commercial Experience [ComEx] team has always been a pioneering organisation - providing financial services across Unilever such as Record to Report (R2R), Source to Pay (P2P), Global Control Service Centre (GCSC), Supply Chain Finance Services (SCFS), Fuel for Growth (F4G), Treasury, and Parent & Holding Controls (TRC)ComEx is now expanding its scope to cover Unilever's acquired businesses These businesses are fast growing with varied business models under diverse technology landscape and having different level of process maturity.

Plan is to establish a team that will become the One stop shop for e2e finance shared service operations across Record to Report (R2R), Purchase to Pay (P2P), Bill to Cash (B2C) and Supply Chain Finance (SCF) for Acquired Businesses with the objective of driving simplification in run operations as well as step change controls compliance thereby releasing business bandwidth to focus on growth agendaMain AccountabilitiesCentral Material Requirement Planning (CMRP) is a process which encompasses a tool in SAP and systems to generate RPM Purchase requisitions for every factory-material-supplier combination as per net requirements generated on the basis IPM based scientific stock norms and total cycle times, on a weekly basis, production plans are released by supply planners for the next 19 weeks The factories then convert these PRs into POs on the suppliers and agree delivery schedules basis the weekly production plans to ensure RPM stock availability to service the production plan OTIF Various MIS reports viz GRR, MSTN, Stock aging, Inventory Norms, DOH, business waste etc.

are generated to aid buyers and factories to manage service levels and RPM inventory in an optimum manner The role specifically includes the following:Job Purpose:

• Materials Plan loading- To ensure all the plans are loaded for the week, which would sometimes include follow up with planners
• Factory Hygiene - Weekly, follow up with factories for closing of unwanted Open POs, timely production booking, BOM/PV (production version) Selection, correct tagging of stock esp when there are role changes in the factory
• MRP Run via BOTs (RPA) - Monitoring, re-run of MRP in some cases when required.
  
  
• PR Conversion activity - Monitor and overseeing the PR conversion activity in SAP and follow up with stakeholders for any help required
• Material Availability issue (MSTN Response to Procurement) - Monitoring procurement response to validate insufficient MSTNs (Modified Stocks to norms) against variance feedbacks received from factories
• FSI Report - Monitoring weekly completion of FSI Report (Factory, Supplier, Item combination required for PR generation)
  • FSI Mismatch / Contract Non-availability - This activity typically involves a lot of push/follow up from CMRP procurement team with the buyers to close FSI mismatches
• Collaboration - The activity where the CMRP procurement team spends almost the entire day (Tuesday) in collaborating with factories, planners and procurement reviewing the material availability category wise for the week and immediate coming weeks Freeze plans which can be complied basis collaboration with these stakeholders
• Periodic master validation - Remind Buyers to refresh their regular masters, if required on MOQs/PLT and TLT, further keep evolving on it.
  
  
• Revision in masters for season up stocks (winter cold creams/soups/ice-creams)- Critical to coordinate between planners and buyers to ensure timely updates of safety time masters (in particular) before the season
• SLOB Review -
  • Monthly Review with planners, factories, and procurement on slow moving RPMs This involves monitoring along with these stakeholders the shelf life of the materials and taking calls on:
  • 1 Coordinating with planners to issue FG plans to use up these slow moving/ non-moving materials
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    Interunit transfers to units which have plans for these materials
  • 3 Shutting arrivals of these materials for those units pre-planned
  • 4 Coordinating with Procurement to explore if these materials can be sold outside albeit at a lower cost.
    
    
  • 5 Coordinate with Planners, factories, and procurement to raise WOP in case if there is no room left to salvage and the material expired

Inventory Reporting:

• 1 Share the target inventory with the buyers and send daily tracker on actuals
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  Issue details on receipts and consumption wherever required for buyer to control inventory
• 3 Liaise with planners to reduce plan bias
• 4 Facilitate interunit transfers for like materials to help better usage of RPM and control inventory numbers.
  
  
• 5 Maintain regular dialogues with the buyers to reduce MOQs where the requirements are lower

Inventory Control:

• PO push backs - To coordinate with suppliers for deferring deliveries not required and hence avoiding inventory accumulation/control At the same time liaising with the factories to correct the revised delivery dates so that supplier OTIF compliance is on-track
• To provide daily inventory movement on key materials to buyers to take right calls on buy/hold

Volume Coordination for contracting:Typically, the long-term requirements(19 weeks/ Quarterly/Annually) extrapolated by CG have disproportionate differences as per buyers Buyers do a sense check vis--vis last year spend quantity and revert to CMRP procurement team raising doubts on the sanctity of the numbers (variance).

CMRP Team will have to then coordinate with Supply Planners and share buyers' consensus' and get the numbers re-vetted

• SNCR/OTIF - While CG shares these KPIs in principle, CMRP team coordinates with the buyers' driving improvement in these areas (SNCR and OTIF)
• NTPO - Taking lead in challenging the factories on NTPO non-compliance Get proper justifications with buyers' approvals for non-compliance in issuing Manual PO
• Volume Analysis

Skills:SAP R3, Ariba Spend Management, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Good Analytical Skills, Good Communication Skills, ConfidentEducation:Bachelor's / masters in commerce or ScienceExperience:10 years of experience in material planning and/or procurement and/or factory preferably in a consumer goods industryTravel: 10% of factory travel, hybrid working pattern Direct ReportsBeauty & Personal Care (BPC) LeadHomecare (HC) LeadFood & Refreshments (F&R) LeadCMRP ConsultantsKey InterfacesSupply PlannersCentral sourcing teamFactory supply chain managersDistribution planners & Network plannersPlanning Excellence teamSupply chain Leadership teamSupply chain Finance team

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