Customer Account Executive Review

by Unilever

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Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Tracking sales performance, developing relationships with your buyers, including presenting to them, entertaining them. developing a forecast for the year on your account, understanding the profit and loss of your business, working with your team on landing sales opportunities, organising events with your customer. Negotiating costs


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes! So many new skills. Working with excel, financial skills, forecasting, negotiating, selling, data analysis, implementing strategy, presenting.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Huge responsibility for your own account. E.g I lead the relationship with a retailer and all the sales into it. I also manged one brand with a retailer which was my sole responsibility.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • support from my line manager was incredible, she would would always prioritise my needs and support me whenever I needed it. The wider team were also great and I developed a network of colleagues who I could go to for different advice.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Atmosphere is great. Culture was wonderful. Everyone is a community. You don't feel like you are working for a huge corporation which was lovely.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I loved it! It was very challenging at times but allowed me to develop so many skills which I will use in my career.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
  • Be yourself! Show passion for the things you love and care about.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Sales

South East

May 2023


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