Unilever Nigeria Plc Current Job Openings

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Source to Pay (S2P) Market Operations Manager

Job ID: R-71272
Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Job Schedule: Full time
Category: Supply Chain

Role Responsibilities

• The Source to Pay regional role will be responsible for the complete management with forward thinking solutions improving end user experiences.
• As part of this delivery, the role encompasses the delivery of the S2P Finance Processes with the objective of exceeding best in class metrics end to end S2P process for selected countries, mainly through third-party outsourced providers (IBM, Accenture, AMEX, Citi, etc).
• The S2P manager has sole responsibility over full delivery of the Global Unilever Process Model for specific countries within the UniOps P2P transformation scope.
• The person working in this role will be the critical link between MCO being service recipient and 3PSP where the Services are performed. S/He will act as P2P process owner for his/her region and will be accountable for 3PSP service and delivery in front of MCOs in scope .

The S2P service line is responsible for:

• Accounts Payable processes (AP)
• Contract to Pay finance process supporting Procurement networks including
  Indirect (MBS) and Direct Procurement (Packaging, Chemicals, CM, Logistics), Travel and employee expense processes including credit cards.
• Global Process Models encompassing S2P
• Accountability and efficiency of TPSPs supporting Unilever MCOs being service recipient and TPSP where the finance S2P role acts as process owners for his/her region.
• Delivery of the Uniops S2P Transformation scope, leveraging digitisation and analytical technology to improve reporting analytics.
• Drive transformation and savings projects, relevant to further streamline operations
• Service: Ensure the IHD (supplier help desk) improves service end users experience as well as suppliers, increasing user end perception, supporting business critical escalations, and ensuring fast resolutions are provided.
• Collaboration, facilitate user training to improve awareness of contracting and finance functions to drive down finance related queries.  Having an extensive knowledge of procurement networks and systems such as Coupa, ICAT, SAP would be a good advantage to support the role, to drive resolutions faster resulting in enhanced ways of working supporting procurement, planning, suppliers, AP and FC functions.
• Drive resilience and compliance
• Drive capabilities and transformation
• Develop Talent and capability within the S2P team

Accountability (Deliverable Outputs)

• Overall management and control (through KPIs/SLAs/OLAs plus internal, external and ZBC audit requirements) of P2P processes in dedicated countries
• Leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs
• Making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our ways of working
• Building a professional services organization with 3PSP and other stakeholders of the P2P process (i.e., Procurement officers, Global Portfolio team, IT Teams, external suppliers of UL, group of ca. 20.000 P2P users in Europe, MCO local finance leaders) to deliver best in class P2P process for Unilever
• developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements
• Working closely with P2P Process Office and Procurement Services to develop practical solutions to performance improvement initiatives
• Drive end-to-end continuous improvement mindset, enabled by Lean Six Sigma root cause analysis techniques.
• Leading Projects acting as Project Manager for the top down and bottom-up initiatives, as well as being SPOC and SME in projects led centrally within the P2P functional area
• Ensure that respective high profile stakeholders from MCOs (UL WL3+) are fully briefed about P2P processes in their regions and manage through dependencies with them in order to achieve all key BFS P2P service line metrics
• Escalate to P2P Service and Delivery Junior Manager items that are not to be resolved on his/her own level.

Stakeholder contacts
Internal:

• MCO Finance Team, Financial Controller
• Global Service Director for P2P
• Directs Procurement Teams Networks
• Indirect’s Procurement/business users
• Planning Teams
• P2P users
• R2R Teams
• Global PEC teams

External:

• 3rd Party Service Providers
• Unilever suppliers

Requirements

• University Graduate / Qualified accountant /Engineering (or similar experience)
• 6-8 years’ experience in Finance/Supply chain in business partnering an advantage
• Strong knowledge of key Finance and Procurement Contracting processes in S2P area
• High Financial / Supply chain skills
• Service Delivery experience beneficial
• Leadership, collaboration, which will support/challenge/improve ways of working within the S2P area.

Competencies:

• External Orientation (focus on customer; deliver excellent result)
• Action Not Debate (makes decisions under uncertainty, ensures great execution)
• Team Alignment (team player; supports and respects others)
• Working in partnership with clients, vendors and service providers

Skills:

• Effective communications both written and oral in English
• Project Management & Change Management Facilitation
• Analytics
• Performance improvement
• Organisational Awareness
• Negotiation beneficial, exposure to senior stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure with often conflicting internal targets
• Strong Excel skills
• Enhance stakeholder experience
• Storytelling
• Strategy
• Working knowledge of SAP (preferred, not necessary)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Process & Pack Manager, Savoury

Job Requisition ID: R-71855
Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full time

Main Job Purpose

• Management of manufacturing operation in the Savoury factory to ensure product quality and delivery in a safe environment during the day to day operations achieved at minimum cost as defined in the Operations Plan.

Key Accountabilities

• Coordinate all production activities in the plant through shift leaders
• To continually monitor, analyze and control parameters for cost effectiveness and ensure that objectives set for these parameters are met: PQCDSM
• Ensures integration of UMS methodology and strategy as well as facilitation of best-proven practice in the factory, viz: AM, PM,FI,QM etc
• Drive autonomous-based maintenance of equipment
• To maintain high standards of discipline and minimize organizational loss time
• Establish and maintain optimum manufacturing process conditions, and take action in the event of deviations
• Provide coaching and training for teams to drive capability development via capability development route.
• Support Sales and Operations Planning process and ensure Service levels are not compromised.
• Conduct Tier 1 Performance Review for the shift, generates action logs and follow up to a logical conclusion.
• Plan and implements training schedule for the process operations team.
• Implements and sustain process operations day by day work order closure
• Ensure Product and Process mastery is retained to ensure we do not lose capability.
• Retaining talent is non-negotiable.

Key Interfaces:

• Factory Manager
• Supply Planner
• Factory Engineer, Quality Lead
• Finance Business Partners
• HR Business Partner
• Regional Teams

Requirements / Relevant Skills

• B.Sc. Engineering or Sciences
• Supply Chain Experience (Make/Plan)
• Minimum of 5 years experience  FMCG/ Food or Savoury category
•  Experiencing working with SAP is not negotiable
• Storytelling, data visualising and presentation skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint Skills
• Professional To be Fluent in English.

Leadership Behaviours:

• Have passion for high performance and ability to drive business performance using insight to drive decision.
• Have strong process design and optimisation skills , being able to design and re-engineer core process flows with effective control.
• Have demonstrated stakeholders’ management skills to ensure maintaining great relation with people having impact and interest in your job
• have ability to clearly prioritise work for effective job delivery.
• Have effective communication skills enabling to produce creative, compelling content that engages the audience to make impact and influence
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and learning through change.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Treasury Manager – WA

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-Time
Category: Finance

Business Context and Main Purpose of Job

• Effective Liquidity, foreign exchange and commodity backroom operations management are critical to ensure the safeguard of Unilever’s financial assets.
• This role is involved in the Treasury operations for Unilever Nigeria and the role is to oversee the day-to-day Treasury and commodity hedging operations and be the lead for upcoming Treasury projects. The role will also oversee the management of the Pension funds for the Business as well as the insurance activities for the Business and its assets.
• The role will also be focusing on managing the Liquidity and Foreign exchange requirements for the business in addition to running the back-office operations in addition to managing and maximizing the Tax liabilities for the Business.

Main Accountabilities
Banking:

• Lead and work with Regional / Global Treasury to ensure adequate facilities are available to meet existing and future business funds requirements.
• Co-ordinate documentary credits with the banks
• Develop and maintain effective operational network with key Banks/Financial Institutions to ensure smooth operations and harness opportunities.
• Responsible to administer role for Bank related systems.
• Co-ordinate and ensure documentation in place to transact with Banks (facilities letter, documentation, director’s resolution etc)

Financial Accounting:

• Ensure accurate and timely internal reporting for both statutory and internal reporting of the Treasury function. These include:
• Managing CapGemini (offshore Accounts team) for Treasury outsourced activities.
• Reviewing journals on Interest charges, bank charges, Unilever Finance International (UFI) sweep and fund transactions, Loans, FX differences arising out of settled FX contracts, settlement of payments and collections, revaluation & mark to market on open FX contracts.
• Analysing and ensuring timely completion of Treasury reports (FX exposures, currency trends, Cash Forecast, actual cash flows; hedging requirements and Trade Loan reconciliation).

Liquidity Management:

• Ensure Unilever’s financial assets are safe guarded with proper planning of short-, medium- and long-term cash requirements. This includes funding requirements and maximizing long term returns on excess liquidity.
• Forecast day-to-day cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings or increase returns on excess cash.
• Reviews company’s cash forecast and performs an analysis on the projected vs. reported cash holdings.

Exposures Management:

• Mitigates financial risks related to the interest rates on the foreign exchange positions.
• Propose Forex strategies and exposure limits incorporating market insights on Forex trends into hedging decisions.
• Design and implement full end to end (process design, systems, accounting treatments) solutions for back-office operations on new commodities, instruments, and regions.

Governance, Compliance & Documentation:

• Maintains policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over treasury operations.
• Ensures all transactions are completed in accordance with the Schedule of Authorities and are properly documented.
• Responsible for the Treasury Policy compliance and observing Forex limits.
• Establish and report treasury KPIs.

Investment Sub-committee and Pension Trust Fund Governance:

• Deciding on the right funds in which employees can invest in.
• Reviewing the fund performance
• Organizing pension trust meetings and briefing the trustees on fund performances, employee engagement etc
• Relationship management with administrator and custodian

Commodity Risk Management:

• Stabilizing the existing back-office operations and setup new commodities for the back-office operations
• Ensure compliance and controls are in placed in the back-office operations.

Key Interfaces
Internal:

• Functional Directors
• Finance Business Partners
• Financial Control
• Customer Development Heads of Units
• Regional Treasury and Tax Teams
• Supply Chain Management Team

External:

• Banks
• 3P Outsourced Service Providers

Key Skills & Relevant Experience

• Must be CIMA / ACCA / ICAN certified.
• 7- 10 years work experience in Financial Management, Tax Accounting and Treasury Management with at least 2 years spent in leading teams.
• Strong SAP Knowledge & Excel spreadsheet skills
• Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Assistant Procurement Manager – CM (West Africa)

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-Time
Category: Supply Chain

Main Job Purpose

• Provide support to the Procurement Operations Manager and Procurement operations team.

Key Accountabilities

• Integrating global / regional 3PM strategies with business and plant demands, balancing timing and conflicting interests.
• Required breadth of knowledge of a large portfolio of raw and packaging materials, suppliers, and IT systems.
• Working across the respective regions with multiple strategic Procurement teams each with a different culture and processes.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of and execution of the cross-category CM strategy for Nigeria.
• Collaboration with category procurement to perform make/buy analysis; development of a CM supplier segmentation model aligned with business needs; maintenance of the supplier list; and development/maintenance of relationships with strategic 3PM partners. Allow for E2E SC analysis, information management, and cost-opportunity decision making.
• Manage existing contracts between 3PM’s and UL and ensure renewals are done before expiration.
• Support the CM manager on collaborative manufacturing capability trials related to innovation, outsourcing, and savings initiatives, including project planning.
• Monitor CM performance management on cost, quality, safety, and service. Specifically, partner with CM’s finance and procurement to ensure proper cost controls are in place around stock management and purchase price variance.
• Drive cost-cutting opportunities for all CM manufacturing losses, cost-product-material benefits, and gross margin improvement programs across the board.
• Business partner functional stakeholders (PG, R&D, etc.) for all categories as related to CM sourcing activity in Nigeria.
• Work with the Portfolio Innovations team on sourcing and deploying CM innovation opportunities in West Africa.
• Work with the SC operations team and 3Ps on a quarterly volume and price forecast for finished goods.

Key Interfaces
Procurement:

• Procurement team
• Procurement operations team, Category
• Procurement operations team, Geography

Supply Chain:

• Manufacturing
• Quality
• Inbound Logistics
• Supply Chain Category Planning
• Supply Chain Innovation Planning
• MCO Demand Planning (depending on team/portfolio)
• S&OP Planning
• Import / Export
• R&D
• Marketing
• Brand Building

External:

• Suppliers.

Relevant Skills

• University graduate
• 5 to 7 years relevant experience in procurement preferably in FMCG
• Experiencing working with SAP is desirable
• Storytelling, data visualising and presentation skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint Skills
• Professional To be Fluent in English.

Leadership Behaviours:

• Have passion for high performance and ability to drive business performance using insight to drive decision.
• Have strong process design and optimisation skills , being able to design and re-engineer core process flows with effective control.
• Have demonstrated stakeholders’ management skills to ensure maintaining great relation with people having impact and interest in your job
• have ability to clearly prioritise work for effective job delivery.
• Have effective communication skills enabling to produce creative, compelling content that engages the audience to make impact and influence
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and learning through change.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online