Procurement-Materials Finance Business Partner

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: 

• You will – together with the procurement finance manager – be finance business partnering the global procurement finance team.
• You will be supporting the design and especially landing of the procurement finance processes and tools.
• You will be working with the project team during the set-up phase of the TeaCo business.
• On an ongoing basis you will work on procurement performance management, including the savings agenda to deliver the net material impact and improvement opportunities globally for the end to end Procurement Finance processes and capability building. 

The individual will need to have strong communication and analytical skills and a thrive for accuracy and continuous improvements. Furthermore, you need to be results-orientated.

Your Key Tasks: 

• Support the development of new capabilities and analytics, in order to give the team the tools to operate with a higher level of effectiveness and steer the resources behind key value-focused capabilities.
• Finance business partner of the global procurement team in the procurement forecasting process.
• Understand key material cost drivers that feed into actual P&L and forecast. Connect with the FP&A team, to ensure that material processes are integrated in the regional planning processes including monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and budgeting processes.
• Performance management – with analysis and insights - on buying savings, product logic, ZBB and working capital optimization.
• Contribute in the sustainability agenda, e.g. through performance management on the relevant sustainability KPIs and costs.
• Support the risk management policy and compliance in procurement processes.
• Transfer Prices cycle for materials.

Key interfaces and relevant stakeholders for this role: 

• You’re reporting to the procurement finance lead. 
• SC Procurement lead.
• Key in-market procurement representatives. 
• Regional/Global Finance and SC stakeholders.
• Teaco CFO, Chief Supply Chain. 

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 and/or international roles 
• Experience in Procurement/Material process is a plus 
• Knowledge of FX management is a plus

Required Skills and Compentencies 

• Strong analytical skills and high level of accuracy
• Experience in and strong with (supply chain / procurement) processes, systems and tools
• Communication skills
• Comfortable with details and managing the operations
• Hands on and can do mentality
• Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive and ability to identify improvements
• Good planning and organizing skills