Usama Asif

Senior Global Procurement Director - Ingredients at Unilever

- I have a passion for rehumanizing leadership with a consistent track record of developing, retaining, and growing high performing purpose-driven large teams. - I believe procurement has the opportunity to lead in the design of any company's future economic model and not only how that contributes internally to top and bottom line but also how it incentivises and drives value externally. The biggest challenge lies in ensuring the head space to think about it more deeply to be able to make that degree of difference. The depth and breadth of my experiences combined with my passion to nurture talent, fuels my drive of Procurement with Purpose. - Procurement & Supply Chain leader with 14 years of experience in multitude of roles and geographies. I have worked in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico and the Netherlands. I have led and managed several multi-cultural and multi-functional teams across the globe. - Expert in Climate, Nature and Social partnerships ecosystem development. - Extensive strategic sourcing experience of multi-billion-euro portfolio management across Raw & Packaging Materials, Services, Capital Expenditure and Real Estate. - Depth in procurement expertise ranging from supply market intelligence and analytics, strategic sourcing development and implementation, translating and aligning business and procurement strategies, effective negotiation, supplier selection and development, managing alliances and relationships and integrating supplier value into the business. - Breadth in supply chain expertise ranging from Capacity & Demand Planning, Innovation Planning, Manufacturing, Customer Service and Logistics.