Supply chain

How do you get 12,000 litres of ice cream across the Australian desert without it melting? It’s easy! By working in a flexible, action-oriented team with the ability to adapt and innovate you will learn to formulate cutting edge solutions to any challenge. From sourcing raw materials to delivering the end products, a career in Supply Chain means being responsive to consumer and customer demands and ensuring everything from the quality of our products and new innovations to our customer service is consistently world-class.

Whether it’s face cream or ice-cream, Supply Chain are responsible for making sure our products are on the shelves, when consumers want them, at a good price and with minimal impact on the environment.

Whichever area you join – Supply Management, Manufacturing (Make), Supply Planning or Customer Service – you’ll need to be a clear thinker with strong strategic, logistical skills and the ability to act decisively in a challenging and fast-paced environment

Customer Service – Deliver 

Deliver is all about anticipating, fulfilling and exceeding customer needs to ensure our products can reach the consumer. This area is responsible for solving challenges such as on-shelf availability and you could find yourself working in order management, at the interface between our warehouses and transportation and ensuring our products are delivered to the customer as promised.

Plan

This area is the hub for all our forecasting activities and is integral in predicting how much product we need to manufacture. Demand planning uses models as well as capturing consumer data and market knowledge to determine potential sales for our products. Using this data, Supply Planning ensures our factories are able to meet these sales demands on time and in the most cost effective way possible.

Supply Management

This is about optimising the cost and quality of what we buy through the intelligent and sustainable sourcing of materials, packaging and non-production items. The team not only get valuable market insight by leveraging Unilever’s global scale they also explore new ways of working with our suppliers and play an important role in technology innovation.

Make

The nerve centre of our Supply Chain is our factories. Working in manufacturing you will help improve efficiency and develop new capabilities to adapt to changing customer and consumer demands and execute future innovations. In production you might be responsible for a team’s quality, output and costs. In engineering, you could be designing and building high-speed production lines.