Deniz Kızılay

Assistant Procurement Manager at Unilever

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Unilever (Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Assistant Procurement Manager
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

      • Portfolio buyer Middle East & Turkey; Outer Case, and Folding Cartons

    • Procurement Specialist
      Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 · 9 mos

      • Portfolio buyer Middle East & Turkey; Outer Case, and Folding Cartons

    • Procurement Specialist
      Dec 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Collaborative manufacturing raw material operations; HC, PC, and BW - Chemicals

  • METRO Türkiye (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Category Promotion Executive
      Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 · 6 mos

    • Category Promotion Executive
      Jul 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs

  • Senior Project Intern at HAVI
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2020 · 10 mos

    Senior Project is a two semester (nearly nine months) course program in Izmir University of Economics that provides the basic skills to senior students to effectively plan, manage and control large scale real world projects especially from industry • Working under actual industrial/government conditions by interacting with company personnel • Project management skills by working directly with an industrial/service firm • Developing solution-generating skills by working with real-life problems • Working with modern information technology, such as database design, modeling, web design, simulation and visualization tools • Implementing logistics and project management knowledge to develop a proposal and to produce a solution for a real world problem • Team leader of the project

  • Supply Chain Intern at HUGO BOSS
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2020 · 2 mos

    Detailed Program of the Internship: • Fabric Purchasing & Sourcing • Foreign Trade of Finished Products • Free Zone Customs Operations • Suit, Woman Wear & Shirt Logistics • Raw Material Warehouse for Suit, WW & Shirt • Finished Goods Warehouse for Suit, WW & Shirt • Quality Check of Sourced Fabric in Laboratory • Multi-Customer Relations Management

  • Food Service Distribution Intern at METRO Italia
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2019 · 3 mos

    Detailed Program of the Internship • Commerical Pricing HQ • Orientation in Santa Cristina DC (METRO Italy's dry goods distribution platform) FSD Back End • Product Assortment Overview & Analysis • Ultra – Fresh Focus (Product Competence, HACCP) • Goods Flows & Lead Times (Goods Receive – Picking Activity – Returns) • Reordering Process by Department Managers & Department Specialists • Quality Check • Warehouse Management (Lay Out, Assortment Revision, Shelf Life Checks & Activities) • Transportation Management • External Providers Partnerships & Management • Back End – Front End Linking Activities (the Role of the Shift Coordinator) • Back Office – Credit Management • Head Quarter Teams Sinergy (Offer Dept, FSD HQ, Credit Risk Office, I&Q) FSD Front End • Horeca Customer Visits with the Area Managers and Sales Force • Sales Manager Role & Activities • Commercial Tools (Personalized Price List, Special Discount Budget, Year End Bonus, Artificial Intelligence) • Promotional Leaflet & Initiatives • Digital Evolution (Digital, W360 Project)