Unilever Hiring for Associate Strategic Planning Manager, Beauty & Wellbeing at Englewood Cliffs, NJ Full Time

Background & Purpose of the Job

The role supports Beauty & Wellbeing North America Supply Chain and reports to the Senior Strategic Planning Manager located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

The Associate Strategic Planning Manager, Beauty & Wellbeing is a key contributor to the category since they develop the Supply Chain long term sourcing strategies to create value for the category within the existing and future portfolio.

The Associate Strategic Planning Manager, B&W will develop sound business cases to support category growth, cost savings and service improvement following the USLP principles and ensuring the optimal E2E network design.

In addition, they will also perform long term capacity planning, evaluate network constraints, identify improvement opportunities, review capex and technology needs, lead 5S savings identification and implementation, complexity reduction initiatives, and strategic project scoping and execution all towards driving Gross Margin improvement.

This role will not only simulate / optimize current network but continually look for step change opportunities within the E2E network.

This person will work as part of the Product Group team and will interact with Brand, Supply / Demand Planning, Factories, Finance, Procurement and R&D to deliver the category business targets of today and enable the business targets of the future.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

• Continually analyze the E2E category network and propose and execute step change and continuous improvement projects.
• Develop business case analysis with Finance defining capex and cost savings for project execution.
• Develop long term capacity and constraint models for long term E2E network analysis and use optimization and simulation techniques to improve network performance.
• Support complexity reduction in product portfolio and overall network
• Manage Smart Sourcing and Smart Product projects (up to $5M spend) start to end. Develop Networks and ensure on time and within budget delivery.
• Perform long-term capacity planning (LTCP) and develop further the LTCP capabilities.
• Monitor the progress on achievement of the category KPIs in Gross Margin, service, and working capital.

You’re a strategy guru : You not only understand what the sourcing network needs to be today, but more importantly what it needs to be tomorrow.

You can balance multiple tradeoffs to arrive at the best solution for Unilever.

You’re a dot connector : You can see the impact of process choices on down-stream and up-stream activities in the end-to-end supply chain.

You love to win and have fun doing it : We make big choices on investments and capital that have impact for years down the road.

Must be bold in the recommendations with an we will win mind-set.

You’re a changemaker : Some of the things that work today, will not work in the future. You are often the first to recognize the strategy of the future and will need to bring others along.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred in Finance, Business, Logistics, and / or Engineering.
• 3-5 years combined experience in any of the following areas : Supply Chain planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering and / or Operations Research
• Clear demonstration of leadership, team commitment and influencing others
• Cross functional business process, commercial and financial acumen

Preferred

• Project or innovation management and MS Project
• Strong presentation and public speaking capabilities

Pay : The pay range for this position is $83,200 to $124,700. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus : This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI) : This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits : Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits.

Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities.

We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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