Matthias John

- Global head of quality excellence for raw and packaging materials and third party manufactured finished goods - Focus areas: Supplier capabilities, digitalisation and E2E integration - Developing program strategy and driving its deployment through the market cluster organisation - Working in close collaboration with procurement, R&D, manufacturing, IT and Unilever’s supply and manufacturing partners

- Based in Unilever's Head Office for North America - Head of materials procurement for foods, ice cream & tea business - Responsible for category procurement of raw & packaging materials, 3rd party manufacturing and factory investments - Driving supply strategy, material cost inflation & savings, service, quality & innovations - Business partnering Unilever’s SVP for foods & refreshments - P&L accountability for material part of SC costs, procurement lead in S&OP team - Head of supplier diversity program

- Based in Unilever’s Supply Chain & Procurement Hub for Middle East, Russia & Africa - Head of logistics procurement responsible for transportation, warehousing and pallets in the region. - Business partnering Unilever’s supply chain and logistics market teams - Rolling out the global logistics procurement strategy incl. strategic supplier collaboration, transformation projects and global eSourcing

- Based in Unilever’s European Operations Centre for Logistics, Planning, Order to Cash, Master Data & Finance - Overall leader of the site with > 700 people - Head of a large scale transformation project to redesign the way, in which logistics is managed in Europe, aimed at creating a more effective and efficient end to end logistics capability - Leading a strategy project about Global E2E Operations Centres - Board member of Unilever Poland Services Sp. z o.o.

Head of Unilever's European Transport Operations Center, UltraLogistik

European Logistics: Management of Primary Transports