Responsibilities

The Procurement Strategy & Insights Team is team formed 3 years ago, serving as the nerve centre of the Unilever global procurement organization, enabling the procurement organization to design and deliver step-change across value chains, operating processes and tools, and business models. With vision of Translating Knowledge & Data into Future Fit Procurement Strategy & Insights, as the key enabler of Lighthouse strategy this team is responsible for:

• Sensing, incubating, and enabling innovative ideas, new business models, and transformation programs for disruptive value creation across procurement teams
• Creating and implementing standardized processes and data-driven decision making to ease operating effectiveness and drive better and faster outcomes
• Identifying, scaling, and spreading best practices across the global procurement organization, within and across teams
• Facilitating rapid learning, capability development, and future-fit upskilling of our people
• With a growing agenda and scope, the Procurement Strategy & Insights Team now consists of 3 sub-teams:
• Strategy team, reporting to Focus of Five and Power of One Procurement VPs and dot line to Head of Strategy & Insights, drive the BG/Po1 strategy and lead BG/Po1 insights and land implementation.
• Insights team, reporting Head of Strategy & Insights and lead the central procurement insight agenda along with Competitive Buying and other Lighthouse programs, as well as drive cross BG/Po1 transformation projects.
• Digital Transformation team, reporting to Head of Strategy & Insights and lead central procurement digital program, from building data foundation, develop advanced analytics use cases and services, and drive digital transformation across 7 steps.
• Data & AI Innovation team, reporting to Head of Strategy & Insights, this newly set team and 100% focused on innovating advantaged analytics use cases and Procurement GPT products and AI agents for Procurement and Sustainability, which doesn’t exist in the market.