Unilever is currently hiring for Head of Nature & Forest Commodities Sustainability based in Grha Unilever, Jakarta, Indonesia
About Unilever
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
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There has never been a more exciting time to be working in Procurement when you consider the sheer scale of what we are seeking to grow the business whilst doing more good for our planet and our society. As Unilever Procurement adapts to the ever-dynamic business environment, we will need to be agile in order to continue our track record of delivery in contributing to the top and bottom line. Inevitably, given the consistent and high quality of our delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to continue this rate of performance and indeed go over and above this standard to ensure the value provided is further enhanced across the scope of our remit. As well as ensuring that we are best in class in delivering the basics, we also have to look to the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment - reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage.
Our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations. This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals.
Job Purpose
At Unilever we are working to create regenerative and resilient agricultural and natural ecosystems. If you are passionate about how business can effectively integrate in a sustainable manner for positive impact for people and nature, then there is no better role for you. The Head of Nature & Forest Commodities Sustainability - is responsible for the development of integrated portfolio procurement sustainability strategies and their effective implementation for best impact across Unilever’s footprint of critical Nature and Forest Risk raw materials including Palm, Wood Based Packaging and Coconut. In crafting and implementing the most impactful and effective sustainability strategies the job has a significant role to play in delivering Unilever’s overall goals for climate, nature, and livelihoods in line with delivering on our Growth Action Plan.
The role is also responsible for the global program and delivery for key Unilever Nature Goals of 1) maintaining our deforestation free supply chain across palm, wood-based packaging, soy and cocoa and 2) our flagship program of protecting and restoring one million hectares of natural ecosystems by 2030.
As a key member of the raw materials leadership team this role will also work closely with the procurement teams for the respective portfolios and will be a core enabler of the overall portfolio commercial strategy, delivering more resilient, integrated and competitive sustainable business models. In respective portfolios the role works with other sustainability leaders and teams to embed further programs related to livelihoods, regenerative agriculture and climate into the strategy, delivery models and implementation plans of the portfolio teams.
Main Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Responsible for the developing the global long term sustainability strategy together with stakeholders from sustainability teams, procurement, supply chain, finance, R&D, business groups and units for respect portfolios.
Translating strategy into delivery in designing respective impact programs to be run together with our suppliers and partners and bring strategy to life on the ground.
Continuously benchmarking our approach with competitors and peers and tapping into external networks. Benchmarking against best practices – innovate and identify metrics, tools, and process to optimize sustainable sourcing, impact programs and efficiencies in delivering our goals – create the fuel for impact.
Initiate and drive large change management and value chain integration projects which enable our path to positive impact.
Lead and establish of the centres of excellence in sustainability at strategic integrated sites, like Unilever Oleochemicals Indonesia, intended to be the benchmark and lead the industry in the supply of sustainable tropical oils derivatives.
Build a collaborative team environment that constantly learns and builds best practice.
Program & Portfolio Management
Leading the delivering of Unilever ‘s multi-year commitments and sustainability goals across Nature, Climate and Livelihoods within our Tropical Oils and Wood Based Packaging value chains - especially focusing on sustainable sourcing, deforestation and conversion free supply chains, decarbonisation of scope 3 and in particular our associated Forest and Land Use emissions (FLAG), enhancing livelihoods, protecting and restoring nature and regenerative agriculture.
Lead a global team running programs on the ground in key commodity sourcing areas as well as provide leadership on the agenda to key procurement teams across SEA, Latam, North America, Africa Middle East, South Asia and Northeast Asia.
Support our ambitions for expanding responsible and impactful direct sourcing and sustainable supply to Unilever Oleochemicals Indonesia.
Business Partnering & Engagement
Lead relationships across our key partners and programs with effective supplier communications and engagement in key programs.
Proactively manage our relationships and key sustainability metrics with suppliers across the supply chain.
Lead and design the technology data provision partnerships to accelerate transparency and traceability of materials creating faster more effective pathways to drive, measure and manage impact. Leader in digital Innovation for nature, drive industry wide transparency.
Support Unilever in relationship management and engagement with key opinion formers and civil society.
Collaborate with the Climate and Nature team and across our business with external partners to develop our pipeline of co-financed projects and programs.
Represent Unilever in key industry platforms being an advocate for industry impact.
Governance & Capability Building
Own the delivery of nature-based reporting as needed on deforestation and protect and restore programs including metrics and impact reporting.
Lead and support Unilever’s response and preparedness to manage relevant regulatory changes that impact our supply chains and suppliers e.g. EUDR.
Effectively manage sustainability budgets and activity-based costing to ensure that we deliver our commitments making utmost effective use of resources and external partners.
Candidate Criteria
To succeed in this role, candidates must demonstrate a deep commitment to sustainability and the intersection between business, people and nature. Candidates will need to have a strong sense of both purpose and resilience. The agenda is broad and the problems we are trying to solve are challenging and ambiguous. You will need to be a real problem solver who can work collaboratively and cross functionally to design the right partnerships and programs we need for the challenge. Further the candidate will need to be:
Outstanding in idea generation, ideas that are forward thinking, and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.
Strong at storytelling and selling ideas to his/her business partners, internally and externally, translating these into effective strategies, programs or proposals conveying long term value and communicating accordingly.
Appreciation of the value and impact of outstanding execution with a keen eye for detail – knows how to deliver through the business.
Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to lead or follow appropriately.
Behave as a Partner to Win ambassador and demonstrate the value sustainable procurement adds to the business through our supplier base.
Genuinely committed to Unilever’s sustainably lead business model, connected with the business groups, units and growth agenda.
Experiences & Qualifications
Essential:
At least 15+ years’ experience in Sustainability, Agriculture, Procurement or sustainability linked supply chain management.
Proven track record of implementing successful sustainability programs with positive impact and transformative results.
Expertise in sustainability as it pertains to the respective value chains upstream and downstream or, expertise in sustainability as it pertains to the other relevant value chains upstream and downstream.
Demonstrated and proven leadership capabilities to lead diverse regional or global teams and cross functionally.
Have the ‘gravitas’ (experience, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills), allowing them to interact with senior stakeholders effectively and efficiently across the company and externally.
Demonstrated capability in dialing up the different standards of leadership for high performance.
Preferred:
Advanced education in agroforestry, forestry, agronomy, business and agricultural economics, or related fields preferred.
Strategic sourcing, procurement portfolio strategy expertise
Experience in other similar commodities coupled with commercial acumen.
Experience in operations- end to end portfolio management.
Experience in cofinance of programs and projects.
Skills
Subject matter expertise on palm, tropical and liquid oils commodities and/or wood-based value chains.
Subject matter expertise and track record in leading sustainability program design for impact and managing a theory of change into implementation.
Subject matter expertise on peat management, high conservation value areas and high carbon stock.
Subject matter expertise in decarbonisation of supply chains, environmental sustainability, deforestation and conversion free value chains, conservation and restoration, regenerative agriculture, social sustainability, livelihoods programs and strategy.
Design of public private partnerships and multistakeholder collaborations at landscape level.
Engagement and influencing skills on a senior level.
Negotiation skills, communications skills,
Digital and analytics knowledge for reporting capabilities on sustainability.
Financial and business acumen for business cases and reporting.
International business and leadership experience, good interpersonal and storytelling skills for business influencing.
Leadership
You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.
Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.
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Additional Information
Please be aware if you are applying for this role, we require you to have working rights in the country where the role will based in. If successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.
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