Willem Uijen is Chief Supply Chain and Operations Officer, Unilever and a member of the Unilever Executive Leadership. Prior to his current role, Willem was the Chief Procurement Officer for Unilever. Before that role he was the Executive Director Supply Chain for Hindustan Unilever Ltd and led the Supply Chain for Unilever in South Asia and South-East Asia and Australia.

Willem holds a MSc in Applied Physics from Eindhoven University in the Netherlands.

He started at Unilever in 1999 as a management trainee in Unilever’s R&D Centre in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands. Hereafter he has done a variety of Supply Chain roles in Mexico, in manufacturing, distribution, customer service and planning before leading the Supply Chain function in the management committee for Unilever Mexico and Caribbean. Subsequently he led the Supply Chain for Home Care in Latin America followed by leading the function in the Unilever Group Home Care division.