Unilever Future Leaders Programme– Customer Development at Unilever

Successful candidate for this role will work & grow with support of leaders and teams in Account Management, Customer Development Excellence, Channel & Category Management & Shopper marketing as they drive to sustain our 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 FMCG industry.
• For experienced candidates 1-2 years’ will be maximum experience considered.
• High sense of customer obsession & focused on customer solutions
• Innovative thinker with good strategic, logistical skills.
• Strong analytical skills and able to derive insights into actionable plans
• Flexible and adaptable o highly volatile and fast phased environment
• Demonstrate great communication and interpersonal skills