Supply Chain Production Business Partner at Unilever

Main Job Purpose

Key business partner to supply chain leadership team whose main responsibilities are:

• Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan
• Business performance management delivering high quality insights facilitating effective decision making
• Scenario analysis on innovations and capital investments

Job Summary

• Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan and monthly financial forecast
•  Ensure weekly tracking of supply chain performance against forecast
• Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner resources
• Evaluate projects in process to ensure they have a favourable payback and return on investment
• Drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting
• Undertake major performance interventions if needed
• Support supply chain team at the key decision gates of innovation business cases
• Review impacts of performance interventions
• Identify major risks and opportunities
• Facilitate development of corrective actions to close gaps to targets
• Facilitate identification and implementation of savings opportunities
• Ensure that a robust Capex expenditure process is in place and enforced

Business partnering and insight

• Collect data for base assumptions and liaise with Supply Chain, and relevant cross functional teams to build the base business case and sensitivity analysis
• Perform Business Case modelling (or facilitate self service) and articulate business case characteristics to non-Finance stakeholders
• Provide support in innovation funnel review analysis
• Embed the rigour, discipline and continuous improvement around Post-Launch Evaluations (PLEs) for implemented projects
• Provide insights to MCOs and Categories on innovation performance, contribution to company growth, PLE earnings and innovation trends

Process ownership and delivery

• Act as subject matter experts in building Innovation Business Cases
• Track Business Case (BC) progress including CAPEX projects
• Own the BC tool and seek continuous improvement, simplification & standardisation
• Build proactive Innovation Performance Management capabilities - maintain and continuously improve self-service tools and reports to track delivery of Innovation Business Cases (e.g. in market performance of key launches)
• Provide training to Business Partners on standard Business Case tools
• Develop a knowledge repository of best practices and share learnings with categories and countries

Key Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree and professional qualification CPA/ACCA
• 4-5 years’ experience in finance business partnering with at least 1 year in manufacturing or supply chain
• Experience with the identification of risks & opportunities in the P&L
• Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target) and holding others accountable (particularly peers and senior leadership)
• Significant experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
• People management
• Stakeholder management
• Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
• Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
• Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
• Qualified accountant or equivalent
• Influencing skills