Associate Procurement Director - Dairy, Sugar, Starches

Ice Cream Associate Procurement Director

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We're on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers' businesses. Growing our people's careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments and having fun doing it.

With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall's, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry's, loved in 76 countries, we are the world's largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

Job Purpose

As Associate Procurement Director for dairy, sugars and starches North America, you will be responsible for building and implementing the strategy catered for the new Ice Cream company. You will also be representing the portfolio both to internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Development and lead the implementation of the portfolio procurement strategy.
• Develop strong relationship with suppliers and analyze their capabilities to develop long term supplier strategies.
• Lead frequent negotiations, delivering of savings and cash targets via excellent market understanding, strategy implementations and negotiation skills
• Create a savings pipeline for the portfolio and align on execution with relevant teams
• Implement contracts and ensuring high service levels to sourcing units across North America.
• Ensure compliance of RSP, Contracting, Quality and service in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Initiate portfolio initiatives (e.g., ASA / AMA, Resilience, market development, etc) to create more leverage, ensuring strong connection with the market and MET's.
• Support innovation projects through strong collaboration with R&D-team, providing market intelligence, supplier capabilities and capacity
• Work closely with the finance community to support the business with accurate price forecasting, including market price trends and future market trends to enable proper budgeting and price forecasting
• Continuously seeking for new opportunities and always open for improvement
• Work closely with the CRM team to make sure insights from local players are taken into account when executing the cover strategy
• Lead and develop talent through 1-2 direct reports

Skills & Leadership Behaviors Required

Pay : The pay range for this position is $141,680 to $212,520. 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.

Are you excited to craft the ice cream future? To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.

Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.