Martin leads sustainable sourcing at Unilever with a focus on forest risk commodities such as palm oil. He leads Unilever’s goals to protect and restore natural ecosystems, our delivery of a deforestation free supply chain, the implementation of our cross-commodity supplier policy for people and nature, and our strategy and programs to empower the next generation of smallholders. Additionally, Martin has recently take over responsibility for leading the procurement of our global surfactant’s requirements.

Martin joined Unilever in Durban, South Africa in 1997, initially in supply chain then working in several leadership roles in the transformation of Unilever procurement across Africa. He was posted to Singapore in 2010 where he undertook the leadership of a diverse portfolio ranging from regional tea procurement to developing new sustainable agriculture-based supply chains in India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar. After working in Singapore for five years Martin moved to lead the global procurement of soft commodities based out of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He then moved to Singapore again in 2019 to lead the sustainability transformation of Unilever’s palm oil supply chain and forest risk commodities. He has continued in this role, now recently combined with global surfactants procurement, from his current base in London, UK.