Senior Analyst Supply Chain Finance Europe

Senior Analyst Supply Chain Finance Europe - Temporary Role 

Location: Amsterdam #TMICC
Type: temporary, 12 months

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.  

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:  

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! 

BUSINESS CONTEXT  

ICE EU/ANZ is in a journey to accelerate growth and profitability. We aim delivering consistent, competitive 3%+ growth, and growing profit ahead of sales.  

Transformation is a key lever in the profitability plan. Across all P&L areas there are several plan under way, driving a strong transformation plan, delivering the growth, the productivity and the fuel to re-invest. With key principles on doing things smarter, simpler, bolder and bigger.  

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

Europe has the ambition to deliver underlying sales growth whilst stepping up underlying operating margin. The ambition is unprecedented and requires a high level of creativity and flexibility, mostly considering market volatility.

A bold but balanced set of initiatives has been launched covering the transformation of Europe’s Supply Chain (SC) network across main categories, driving savings harder & more transparently, a relentless push on Zero Waste and re-setting Europe’s Manufacturing network to the competitive level the business needs.

Reporting to Ice Cream Supply Finance Director Europe, the Senior Analyst Supply Chain Finance Europe will be the custodian and driver of delivery of the program composed by several individual projects for Ice Cream and Foods categories.

 WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

• Drive and own all financial aspects for the strategic roadmap for the Manufacturing Network footprint, the Logistics Network and the (other) value generation plans.
• Translate in-flight, pipeline and scoped projects into concrete financial plans flowing into Europe P&L across procurement, R&D, factories (SU), 3rd party factories (CM) and logistics.
• Budget (capex and restructuring) control and governance of projects,
• Hold project teams, notably PMOs and leaders accou