Job Description

Position title: CMRP Lead

Job Location: Bengaluru / Mumbai

ABOUT UNILEVER:
Be part of the worlds 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 future.
Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and youll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, youll 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, well work to help you become a better you.

Business Context

Unilever is a business founded in 1890s with a strong belief in social purpose, and our unique heritage still shapes the way we do business today.

We are one of the world's leading consumer goods companies, making and selling around 400 brands in more than 190 countries, \xe2\x82\xac51B 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 US.

Unilevers 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 growth.

Unilever is focussed on delivering to the 5 fundamentals of growth as outlined below:

Business Operations is a global organization focused on simplifying and digitizing Unilevers 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 functions.

This means freeing our peoples time and talents to focus on growth; thus, uunlocking capacity and delivering Fuel for growth by increasing peoples ability to focus on customers and consumers through delivering a truly Future Fit Operations across our multi stakeholder model.

Within UniOps, the Commercial Experience [ComEx] team has always been a pioneering organization - 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 Unilevers 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 agenda.

Main Accountabilities

Central 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:

Lead E2E CMRP process for HUL - Collaboration with factories for NTPO. Discussing reason for Noncompliance, Master correction, System Hygiene correction (Open PO, PR, incorrect stock, Booking)

Collaboration with Supply planner on plan compliance, plan variation, Actual production V/s future plans & Month end week plans

Reduce RPM Business waste by proactively connecting with supply planner

Monthly RPM IPM refresh exercise with buyers

Long term RPM planning basis FG plan

Daily RPM Inventory Tracking & driving Efficiency

Support Vendor MDM & Vendor related process of SNC

Collaboration with Buyer for ensuring availability of contract, FSI & CMRP Masters

Lead CG team (5 team member) for MIS & rule basis activities for procurement

Drive CMRP Excellence projects

Key Accountabilities:

Inventory reduction

Supporting CMRP Projects for driving efficiency Cost, Cash & Service

DOH and Business Waste reduction, NTPO compliance, Frozen period plan compliance

Professional Skills: Graduate + MBA Degree

Experience Required: At least 5 years of experience (if not a SCT)

Essential:

Positive Attitude and High Bias for Action

Proficient in usage of MS-Excel, SAP R/3, BIW, APO

Ability to adapt emerging technology usage in driving Procurement deliverables

Good networking, communication & Stakeholder management

Team handling

Skills Preferred:

Understanding of Demand & supply planning

Understanding of Factory RPM planning ecosystem

Travel: 10% of factory travel, hybrid working pattern

Direct Reports

Key Interfaces

N/A

The candidate will be required to demonstrate stakeholder management across peers

Internal: Factory SCM / FMs, Procurement (local), supply planners, R&D, SC Finance, Planning Excellence team

External: Suppliers, CG, excellence project teams, service providers, CG, MDM

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