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The Future of Supply Chain Operations

September 23, 2024

Biswaranjan Sen is a Chemical Engineer by training. He joined Unilever in 1991 and has worked in R&D and across various parts of the Supply Chain including manufacturing, planning, logistics, customer service and procurement. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Indonesia with responsibility for the Supply Chain between 2009 and 2012.

Following his subsequent roles as Vice President Procurement Chemicals and Vice President Group Supply Chain Personal Care, he became an Executive Vice President in Unilever in May 2017.

His current role covers responsibility for the Beauty and Personal Care Supply Chain, Planning and Engineering. He also leads the Supply Chain Transformation team.

Bish has worked across the world and is currently based in London, UK.

HUMAN RESOURCES, VIDEO, HUMAN RESOURCES

Building a Foundation for a DE&I Program in 120 Days

December 18, 2023

Tish Archie-Oliver is the Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging for Unilever, North America. In this role, she oversees the integration of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in the business and talent agenda for the United States and Canada. In addition, she leads the organization’s mission to achieve equity in all forms – talent, brand, and supplier diversity.

Before joining Unilever, Tish served as the Second Vice President of Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion at Travelers Insurance. She was responsible for integrating diversity and inclusion strategies into talent acquisition, retention, and development practices and processes across the enterprise.

FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, VIDEO, FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY

Leveraging Technology: Implementing a Digital Transformation to Simplify Compliance Processes and Improve Quality

October 4, 2023

Valerie Sieurin heads up Unilever’s Quality team and is a part of Unilever’s Business Operations Leadership Team.

Valerie started her career in Research and Development (R&D) at Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group. From to 2003 to 2012, Valerie covered various R&D roles in Danone Beverages and Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition when in 2012 she was appointed to Vice President of Quality and Food Safety at Danone.

Valerie joined Unilever from Reckitt, she started as Global Health Quality Director and was promoted to Senior Vice President Global Head of Quality. In this role, she initiated the digitization journey of quality at Reckitt.

She took on her current role in March 2022 and is now based in London, United Kingdom.

With over 30 years’ experience at some of the world’s leading FMCG companies, Valerie is an ambassador for creative solutions and innovation in product, processes, and Quality systems. She is driving a culture change across the organization, overseeing end-to-end Quality, and driving consumers advocacy in the pursuit of superior quality.

VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain

July 5, 2023

Reginaldo has a rich history at Unilever spanning over 30 years with extensive supply chain experience in both developed and emerging markets.

After graduating from Universidade de Sao Paulo as an electrical engineer, Reginaldo started his journey at Unilever Brazil as a trainee in 1991. Just two years later, he was responsible for building a new factory and the production of a new category – powder detergents.

Since then, through leadership positions across Unilever’s supply chain in North America, Latin America and Central America, Reginaldo has been at the forefront of transforming our supply chains, ensuring they are future-fit.

In his most recent role, Reginaldo served as Executive Vice President of Unilever Mexico, Central America and Greater Caribbean overseeing 11 countries, 12 product categories and high levels of growth despite the pandemic. Before this he oversaw our supply chain in North America and Latin America, generating double digit growth in the profitability of one of our largest regions.

SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE, VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN

The Future of Decisions. Now.

June 27, 2023

As Head of Customer Operations at Unilever, Juan Carlos Parada is leading an innovative, customer-centric agenda designed to digitise and optimise the company’s complete end-to end value chain. Through their technology first approach, Customer Operations is driving transformation across the business; powering Unilever’s future-fit operations, creating full operational integration with customers as One Supply Chain, and delivering on their vision to become the FMCG industry first E2E value network operation that drives superior customer experiences to enable growth.

Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.

Sustainability, VIDEO, SUSTAINABILITY

Empowering Action – Making Sustainable Growth Every Employees’ Business

January 17, 2022

Sharing Unilever’s sustainability journey to date and how the last decade influences the next decade Explaining how the company aligns sustainability with driving business growth How Unilever embeds that strategy into the company to ensure all employees are driving change A deep dive on its three beliefs – companies with purpose last, brands with purpose grow, and people with purpose thrive Rebecca Marmot Chief Sustainability Officer Unilever Rebecca is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Unilever. She is responsible for driving the company’s overall sustainability strategy and transformational change on priority areas of Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan (USLP): climate change and…

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Race to Zero

October 13, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require unparalleled transformations to businesses, industries and supply chains. Investors and citizens demand action. Companies are responding: more and more are signing on to bold targets grounded in climate science. But while sustainability is far from languishing on the corporate periphery, far more effort is needed―and fast. In this session, you’ll hear from Unilever’s Head of North America Supply Chain on Unilever’s ‘Race to Zero’ agenda, providing actionable insights and solutions to help businesses on their path to greater sustainability. — Biswaranjan Sen Head of North America Supply Chain Unilever Biswaranjan Sen is a…

SUPPLY CHAIN — NA, VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN

Building a Future-Fit, Purpose-Driven Supply Chain at Unilever

November 9, 2020

Ale Eboli, Head of Supply Chain North America, will discuss strategies undertaken to strengthen agility and resilience in its operations during the pandemic crisis as well as how they are preparing for a future that entails living with COVID-19. However, the virus is not the only global crisis we face – Ale will also share Unilever’s response to tackling the climate emergency and social inequality. — Ale Eboli Head of Supply Chain North America Unilever Ale Eboli, Head of Supply Chain North America for Unilever, oversees a supply chain network consisting of 14 manufacturing sites and 11 distribution centers across…

HUMAN RESOURCES, VIDEO

Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources: A Practical Application

February 20, 2019

The future of work is transforming the way organizations operate today, utilizing technology and data to deliver powerful experiences to consumers, employees and job applicants While the world has changed, the way we work has not caught up. Personalization, automation and convenience are the new norms, and we need to deliver these in our recruitment strategies The Unilever Case study: How we are using Artificial Intelligence to tap into the total talent marketplace — Mike Clementi VP, Human Resources – North America & Global Customer Development Unilever Mike Clementi began his career with Unilever in 1994 as a management trainee….

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The Future of Supply Chain Operations

Building a Foundation for a DE&I Program in 120 Days

Leveraging Technology: Implementing a Digital Transformation to Simplify Compliance Processes and Improve Quality

Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain

Empowering Action – Making Sustainable Growth Every Employees’ Business

Race to Zero

Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources: A Practical Application

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