Logistics and controlled cost finance manager - Tea Company

About the Tea Business  

Unilever is proud of its Tea business, the biggest in the world, with world class purpose driven brands such as Lipton, PG tips and Pukka.

Recently, Unilever decided to separate the Tea business to ensure it can best achieve its potential. Unilever is currently reviewing several options for separation, including a demerger, an initial public offering, a disposal or through partnership models. The process is expected to conclude by the end of 2021. The Tea businesses in India and Indonesia, and the partnership interests in the ready-to-drink Tea joint ventures will be retained.  

The balance of the Tea brands and geographies and all Tea estates, with generated revenues of €2 billion in 2019, is growing and profitable with proven potential both pre- and post-COVID-19. As a standalone entity, the Tea company remains number one in the world and is even better positioned to lead the industry and take full advantage of the opportunities in the category, with more focus and entrepreneurship driving greater growth and value. 

The current vision for the Tea company is to champion a tastier, healthier, more sustainable world of plant-based drinking. Purposeful thinking will be the core anchor of the business, its brands as well as its culture, and enables simple and agile decision making, supports an entrepreneurial mindset and is driven by passion for our consumers. 

As we move through this journey towards separation, we are seeking employees with a passion for exciting entrepreneurial experiences, who want to pursue unique career opportunities and have a desire to be an integral part in building the bright future of this plant-based company. 

Your Role: 

This is an exciting finance role part of the central supply chain finance team of Teaco. You will initially drive the design and landing of the new controlled cost, processes and tools for Logistics, BW and SCO. You will be working closely with the Project team as a representative of the Teaco business. Then on an ongoing basis you will drive the Logistics, BW and SCO performance management, steering both the savings agenda and improvement opportunities globally for the SC Finance processes and capability building. 

The individual will need to be a relationship builder who has the maturity to quickly gain trust whilst driving performance in a firm way. Therefore this role will need to possess a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization will be critical to the success of this role.

Your Key Tasks: 

Organize and enable monthly actuals & forecast process for all controlled cost with exception of manufacturing. Focusing therefore on logistics, business waste and overheads

Drive the annual business planning process

Ensure accuracy of financial results and forecast

Review and analyze the monthly performance, identify key gaps and drives organizational accountability in closing the gaps and risk mitigation

Provide, improve and maintain the necessary tools and capabilities required to ensure effective performance management

Enhance analytics and capabilities to allow the future Teaco SC organization to operate with high level of understanding and effectiveness

Lead Transfer Prices cycle for Logistics, BW and overheads.

Key interfaces and relevant stakeholders for this role: 

Leading 1 direct report

SC team members for the focus areas of Logistics, Business waste and SCO.

Key in-market SC representatives. 

Teaco finance team. 

Required knowledge and Experiences: 

>5 years work experience with proven track record in SC, Category Finance, Controllership, MCO finance roles highly valued

Worked in FMCG, Multi-national companies & international roles 

Track record of SC finance process improvement achievements is a plus 

Knowledge of transfer pricing process is a plus.

Required Skills and Compentencies 

Excellent communication, negotiation and strategic influencing skills with diverse, multi-functional stakeholders.   

Entrepreneurial mindset; ability to identify opportunities, set agenda and drive speedy actions, overcome and learn from setbacks.

Good planning and organizing skills, project management experience.

Familiar with financial and supply chain processes 

Solid team player. Ability to work effectively remotely and lead a team.

Embrace a growth mindset with strong dedication to customers.  

Strong analytical skills and end to end management, ability to understand the big picture but also be hands on, comfortable with details and managing the operations. 

Change catalyst, passionate about innovation, improvements and proactive.