Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Digital Marketing and Innovation

ABOUT MARKETING PROCUREMENT
The Marketing Spend is around €6 Bn across Creative Agencies, Digital & D-Com, Ad Production, Field Force, POSM/Premiums etc. Asset Creation is a portfolio of > €1 Bn globally. Unilever’s Marketing Procurement team is responsible for sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third-party spend across Marketing services.

This role provides the opportunity to lead the development and execution of a comprehensive digital portfolio strategy, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of measurable value. This position plays a key part in driving digital asset creation, optimizing cost efficiencies, and supporting transformation initiatives across multiple portfolios. This leader will enable cutting edge marketing and business results. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Digital Portfolio Strategy & Execution
- Develop and implement a robust digital portfolio strategy aligned with organizational goals.
- Oversee the digital asset creation portfolio, ensuring clear prioritization and value delivery.
Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
- Manage and influence a diverse group of stakeholders to ensure alignment, transparency, and effective decision making.
- Navigate and resolve grey areas across the portfolio, proactively managing expectations and fostering collaborative outcomes.
- Provide consultancy and partnership to cross functional teams to support transformation initiatives across multiple portfolios.
Strategic Sourcing & Cost Optimization
- Apply the 7 step sourcing methodology to large scale projects, ensuring strategic alignment and commercial excellence.
- Develop and maintain a pipeline of cost saving opportunities across the digital portfolio.
Performance & Governance
- Deliver on procurement aligned KPIs, ensuring compliance, performance tracking, and continuous improvement.
- Support governance processes to ensure portfolio visibility, risk management, and value realization

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years in procurement with deep expertise in Marketing Services.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- Knowledge of supply markets, FMCG, and marketing value chains.
- Proven leadership in large-scale projects and change management.
- Passion for sustainability and continuous improvement.
- High financial acumen, communication, and project management skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a complex global environment.
- Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
- Ability to interact with senior stakeholders cross-functionally to deliver balanced solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including effective presentations.

GENERAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

- Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
- Able to create and drive adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change.
- Passion for innovation
- Ability to interact with senior stakeholders effectively and efficiently to understand their needs and deliver impactful, balanced solutions.
- Delivers change whilst understanding the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects.
- Inspiring, motivational, and accountable people leader.
- Strong financial and business acumen
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations.
- Skillful in selling ideas and concepts; especially influencing business stakeholders on change management.
- Strong in project and time management for complex global projects
- Enthusiasm and practical creativity
- Tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of challenging goals

Pay: The pay range for this position is $119,400 to $179,000. 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 sa