Customer Management Sales Industrial Placement

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About Unilever

Unilever, a leading consumer goods company, makes some of the world’s best-loved brands: Dove, Lynx, Tresemmé, Sure, Magnum and Hellmann’s to name a few. 2 billion consumers use their products every day. Unilever products are sold in 190 countries and employ 174,000 people globally.

Unilever are the number 1 fast-moving consumer goods employer of choice among students in 26 countries. Around the world, Unilever products help people look good, feel good and get more out of life. Their impact is the result of deep thought, hard work, and carefully applied skills.

The Role

Customer Management (Sales) ensures that our brands are available wherever the shopper wishes to buy them. Managing relationships with key retailers with skill and sensitivity makes all the difference. Our customers recognise the effectiveness with which our work drives our business and theirs. This has led to a number of retailers (Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda, Boots and Nisa) recognising us as their supplier of the year.

What will I be doing?

You’ll develop your commercial knowledge and numerical skills. You’ll build partnerships with our wide range of customers – supermarkets, superstores, convenience stores, drug stores, discounters, online retailers, ice cream parlours and even theme parks – so that we reach our target markets. That could mean working together to maximise a new product launch, recommending the right range of products, developing marketing programmes, negotiating an annual business plan, or looking for new business opportunities. Our Customer Insight and Innovation Centre allows us to work with our customers in exciting new ways. Our people have the opportunity to make a big impact every day on a local level, across Europe and the globe. We have a proven tradition of developing our own purpose driven leaders and encourage innovative thinking.

What do we look for?

You don’t need a specific degree background – this is an area where your personality will set you apart. It takes a special blend of ambition, people skills and commercial acumen; you’ll need to be credible and confident in front of people and have a passion for growing businesses, coupled with the power to influence and negotiate.

Future focussed feedback and challenging goals drives innovation and ambition within a performance culture and an inclusive and informal environment. We will push you to achieve your potential and make a big business impact where you learn from the best. Firsthand experience – it’s the fastest way to learn.

Students must have completed the penultimate year of their undergraduate degree by the time they start their placement and be returning to study after their placement.

Our Customer Management Summer and Industrial Placements are a chance to showcase your thinking and skills, with total support from a line manager and a buddy. Students who successfully pass our Summer Placement programme will be fast-tracked to the final stage of the selection process for the UFLP programme – the assessment centre. The top performers on the industrial placement will be offered a place directly onto our Future Leaders Programme, starting when you complete your degree, without needing to apply. We also have excellent benefits to support you through your placement including a salary of £20,000, 25 days annual leave and online training.