Unilever Future Leaders Programme - Customer Development & Marketing at Unilever

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Unilever Future Leaders Programme - Customer Development & Marketing

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Employer: Unilever

Employment: Full-Time | Permanent

Place of Work: Remote - Ethiopia

Posted date: 2 years ago

Deadline: Submission date is over

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Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever?s Future Leaders (UFL) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles.

Unilever Future Leader Program Role ? Customer Development & Marketing

Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP) is a unique programme designed to develop Unilever Future Leaders (UFL) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles. It encompasses rotations within their function and cross functions where the final selected fresh graduates or young professionals take up job essential training, purposeful projects, and international opportunities with the support of world-class leaders and experts within Unilever.

From Day 1, our Unilever Future Leaders (UFLs) take on real business challenges within their function and cross functions enabling them to: gain an understanding of how we make & sell our products, be immersed in our sustainability initiatives, experience first-hand integrated global market operations & talent network, build their people management skills & an all-round Business acumen. On top of all that, they also experience a lot of fun along the journey.

The successful candidate for this role will support Ethiopia Customer Development & Marketing leaders and teams in Account Management, Customer Development Excellence, Channel & Category Management & Shopper marketing as they drive to sustain the massive growth of our Market share across all brands and categories through well planned and phased retail expansion & brands/categories marketing investment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Account Management: You will be the face of Unilever to our field sales experience (retail, wholesale & Modern trade) customers and will be required to work with them on joint customer business planning that will deliver profitable growth for all parties.??
• Channel & Category Management: You will be required to consolidate and drive category growth through the execution of relevant activities and innovations. You will work with finance on managing category budgets and ensure category profitability. You will also provide inputs to Supply Chain on upcoming demand and work closely with marketing to deliver innovation activity into the trade.
• Shopper Marketing: You will be curating and executing strategies to lead our most well-known brands with the most innovative trade action plans. Uses strong shopper insights to work strategically with key customers to develop and execute joint marketing campaigns that help grow both our businesses. Engaging with consumers, through our brands, to communicate and engage consumers in our sustainability mission.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of bachelor?s degree in any Business-related course
• Young talents with demonstrated experience, knowledge, or passion of the FMCG industry.
• High sense of customer obsession & focus on customer solutions
• Innovative thinker with good strategic, and logistical skills.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to derive insights into actionable plans
• Flexible and adaptable o highly volatile and fast-phased environment
• Demonstrate great communication and interpersonal skills

Unilever is an organisation committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual and the talent they can bring. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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