Careers at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are professionally competent and qualified to operate safely at a post-apprentice level.  You must be a mentally agile and advanced problem solver actively engaged in maintaining a safe work environment, which protects product quality and reduces waste and other environmental impacts. You must be a positive contributor to the factory’s work environment and culture; the technician will act as a leading coach and mentor to the Technical Operator around the areas of mechanical engineering and Unilever Manufacturing System techniques.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Mechanical Skills and Focused Technician; knowledge and application of technical skills and expertise to ensure the provision of effective engineering support within the team, focused on delivering performance targets.  Directly contributes to improved safety, quality, sustainability and cost.
• Preventative Maintenance Specialist and user of Condition Based Monitoring. Implement planned and preventive maintenance with rigor and skill delivering on time and in full.
• Mechanical skills and diagnostics: Knowledge of tools and their application, able to read and interpret mechanical drawings and manuals, ability to understand basic and complex mechanical equipment and diagnose them, ability to execute maintenance safely.
• Ensuring all machines adhere to Unilever Machinery Safety standards by proper maintenance and continuous improvement. 
• Able to safely isolate machinery from all utilities such as compressed air, electricity, steam, product lines, etc. and is competent on LOTOTO procedures.
• Mechanical Skills and Focused Technician; knowledge and application of technical skills and expertise to ensure the provision of effective engineering support within team, focused on delivering performance targets.  Directly contributes to improved safety, quality, sustainability and cost.
•  Preventative Maintenance Specialist and user of Condition Based Monitoring. Implement planned and preventive maintenance with rigor and skill delivering on time and in full.
• Mechanical skills and diagnostics: Knowledge of tools and their application, able to read and interpret mechanical drawings and manuals, ability to understand basic and complex mechanical equipment and diagnose them, ability to execute maintenance safely.
• Ensuring all machines adhere to Unilever Machinery Safety standards by proper maintenance and continuous improvement. 
• Able to safely isolate machinery from all utilities such as compressed air, electricity, steam, product lines, etc. and is competent on LOTOTO procedures.
• Safety - Utilize all appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products and equipment to ensure a safe working environment for the whole team.
• Workplace Hazards – Full knowledge of the workplace and hazards within it.  Utilize appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products and equipment relevant to the task.
• Environment - Reduce costs due to waste and minimize impact to health, safety and the environment through working to eliminate waste and through the correct management of waste and hazardous materials.
• Quality - Ensure that all aspects of Quality within the area of responsibility are in accordance with local Quality procedures to protect and promote the brand and product.
• Leadership - Promote the development of a highly effective team through strong communication, leading by example whilst keeping focused on goals and targets.  Great teams and great leaders will achieve superior performance.
• Continuous Improvement - Use performance measures to identify and prioritize losses in production area.  Apply rigorous Cost Deployment and the Zero-loss concept to eliminate losses.
• UMS - Knowledge and understanding of the key principles of UMS and the impact this has on the Key Performance Indicators in the production areas.
• Problem Solving - Has the ability to identify, prioritize and address problems using appropriate tools and techniques that eliminate recurrence.
• Decision Making - Makes and implements technical decisions which can impact the plan for the week.
• Business Awareness - Understanding of the need to meet changing demands and the role of marketing and product innovation in growing the business and increasing the company's share.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Experience of working as part of an extended team within the manufacturing sector.
• Proven record of advanced maintenance experience.
• Experience of manufacturing in FMCG.
• Experience as a team member within a project/maintenance team.

Skills

• Technical design skills
• Problem solving skills
• Digital awareness and skills
• Strong coaching and communication skills.
• Proven analytical skills.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.

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JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about developing and executing sales strategies, meet and exceed sales targets, building and maintaining strong customer relationships, analyzing sales data and ensuring efficient sales operations then this role is just for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Determine infrastructural requirement of a distributor for a particular territory including working capital required.
• Determine and prepare distributor sales and KPI targets using the Joint Business Plan toolkit.
• Ensure that working capital is effectively managed by constantly monitoring stocks, debtors and cash positions to meet the right norms.
• Build excellent relationships at KD and at POP level
• Set up the distributor team by recruiting the right skills, right numbers and training through field coaching to deliver assigned targets.
• Set targets for all distributor team and review performance constantly through market floor meetings to ensure target achievement.
• Ensure that KD is profitable by using the ROI toolkit to monitor income and expenditure and report on monthly actions to improve.
• Ensure weekly submission of KD extracts used in raising orders for the KDs
• Prepare beat plans for KD sales team to ensure effective & efficient coverage of assigned territory with all product categories
• Prospects, negotiates and initiates local actions in line with company policies
• Ensure the availability of the right product assortment at the right channel at the right price.
• Ensure achievement of the Field capability score by meeting targets for coverage, lines per call and bill productivity
• Building capability of distributor sales team through full day sales accompaniment and field coaching.
• Submission of weekly and monthly reports – weekly sales report, ROI and profitability report, working capital analysis report and safety reports.

Experiences & Qualifications

• At least 3 years Sales experience with minimum 2 years in FMCG environment
• Bachelor’s degree in business management or economics
• Strong excel skills & analytical skills

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JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about developing and executing sales strategies, meet and exceed sales targets, building and maintaining strong customer relationships, analyzing sales data and ensuring efficient sales operations then this role is just for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Determine infrastructural requirement of a distributor for a particular territory including working capital required.
• Determine and prepare distributor sales and KPI targets using the Joint Business Plan toolkit.
• Ensure that working capital is effectively managed by constantly monitoring stocks, debtors and cash positions to meet the right norms.
• Build excellent relationships at KD and at POP level
• Set up the distributor team by recruiting the right skills, right numbers and training through field coaching to deliver assigned targets.
• Set targets for all distributor team and review performance constantly through market floor meetings to ensure target achievement.
• Ensure that KD is profitable by using the ROI toolkit to monitor income and expenditure and report on monthly actions to improve.
• Ensure weekly submission of KD extracts used in raising orders for the KDs
• Prepare beat plans for KD sales team to ensure effective & efficient coverage of assigned territory with all product categories
• Prospects, negotiates and initiates local actions in line with company policies
• Ensure the availability of the right product assortment at the right channel at the right price.
• Ensure achievement of the Field capability score by meeting targets for coverage, lines per call and bill productivity
• Building capability of distributor sales team through full day sales accompaniment and field coaching.
• Submission of weekly and monthly reports – weekly sales report, ROI and profitability report, working capital analysis report and safety reports.

Experiences & Qualifications

• At least 3 years Sales experience with minimum 2 years in FMCG environment
• Bachelor’s degree in business management or economics
• Strong excel skills & analytical skills