
Unica Assistant Sourcing Manager
- Türkiye
- Sürekli
- Tam zamanlı
- Coordination of sourcing projects within the team and UL
- Order-Production alignment
- Transfer Pricing follow up
- OTIF sourcing of all existing products/SKUs for meeting the demand in the region
- Change management inc. renovations/innovations, localizations and sourcing unit changes.
- Stock management of all UNICA stocks, in transits, stocks at sourcing units
- Manage the supply planning process, focusing on short term supply planning and inventory management of finished goods.
- Generate Short/Medium term FG supply plans and shipment plans.
- Identify and decide on short term supply issues within the guidelines
- Highlight short/medium term exceptional cases
- Work closely with Sourcing Units’ planning teams (local and imported packs) to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements
- Work closely with the logistics teams to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.
- Work closely with distribution to understand outbound network constraints and liaise with the appropriate planning teams (site and third party) to overcome short/medium term constraints
- Identify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal cost
- Work closely with relevant Turkey & UNICA Demand Planning Managers to drive complexity reduction in terms of SKUs
- Deliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.
- Manage the stock holding policy in order to meet customer service & inventory targets.
- Determine inbound logistics requirements
- Responsible for primary and secondary DRP and execute primary DRP from SU to primary DC’s
- SLOB & BW management
- Support project teams and ensure appropriate early management rigour in delivering innovation through the wider supply chain. This includes early management of write offs.
- 3+ years of experience in supply chain / project management within supply chain / logistics is required.
- Bachelor Degree
- Fluent in English, and Turkish; both written and verbal
- Proficiency in MS Office programs
- Knowledge of SAP
- Good written and verbal communication skills in Turkish & English is mandatory.
- Team player
- Team working, interpersonal and communication skills
- Commercial acumen
- Effective remote working skills, as majority of the work is with various countries/SUs around the world
- Project and network management experience
- Pro-active approach to problem solving in short term and ability to implement long term preventive activities
- Analytic thinking, proactiveness, risk management, problem solving, high resilience
- Ability to set priorities and to work effectively under pressure of time and results
- SAP and Microsoft Office programs, with advanced Excel skills
- 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.