Career progression

Experience

Professional expertise is achieved by spending sufficient time in each role and performing multiple roles in one of the following professional areas: Plan, Supply Management, Manufacturing and Category Technologies, and Customer Service. Our employees even at a junior level have the opportunity to operate at Global, Regional and Local levels across a broad range of categories, markets and technologies.

What's more, your career will be increasingly interlinked with Brands, Customer Development (Sales) and Research and Development. These areas will give you an opportunity to play an active role by providing input from a supply chain perspective.

Skills

As you progress, you'll develop a solid platform of general business skills like project and information management. You will also develop strong negotiation skills, especially by working with external parties such as suppliers and customers in functions like customer service. This will enable you to operate as part of a multi-functional team. It also builds your agility and creativity to address business issues from various angles, capture opportunities and implement optimal solutions.

Advancement to leadership

Continued progress will depend on consistent delivery and performance. Such progress coupled with experience will qualify you for leadership positions where you will have a dual responsibility: to deliver results now and in the future through coaching and developing capability in your team. Both require proven expertise in your chosen area and strong business insight.

Qualities

We're looking for people to work in both general and specialist areas. For specialist roles, such as engineering, qualifications in mechanical or chemical engineering are required while supply planners need to be qualified in supply chain management, manufacturing management although a qualification in engineering will be an added advantage. Demand planners on the other hand need to be qualified in statistics. There are certain skills and abilities that are common to all positions. You need to be organized, hands-on and good at managing people, projects, information and change. An understanding of financial principles is always an advantage.