Supply Chain, Marketing, and Customer Development

This position for Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP)

Key Responsibilities:

Be part of a team who work to build brand portfolios through its Planning, Sourcing, Make and Delivering stages and building a portfolio products to ensure these products are on the right shelf at the right time and available to consumers.

Supply Chain at Unilever: From sourcing raw materials to delivering the end product, our supply chain is at the heart of getting brands to customers.

Customer Service – Logistics: This area is responsible for solving challenges such as on-shelf availability. Roles include order management, working at the interface between warehousing and transportation, and ensuring products arrive as promised to meet customer needs.

Customer Service – Planning: Demand planning uses models as well as market knowledge to determine potential sales. Using this data, supply planning ensures factries are able to meet these sales demands on time and in the most cost effective way possible. By integrating demand and supply planning, the team captures and evaluates new developments in planning capabilities and strategies where relevant to drive continuous improvement.

Procurement: This is about optimizing the cost and quality of what we buy through the intelligent sourcing of materials, packaging and non-production items. The team explores new ways of working with suppliers and plays an important role in technology innovation and driving sustainability through procurement.

Manufacturing: You'll help factories improve efficiencies and adapt to changing demands. As a manager, you might be responsible for a team's quality, output and costs. In engineering, you could be designing and building high-speed production lines, develop site master plan and site manufacturing strategy in alignment with category strategy and Compass ambitions.

This position for Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP)

Marketing:

How exactly do you make some of the Unilever’s most popular brands even more popular? How do you take products that in some cases have a 100-year heritage behind them and bring them bang up to date? What will you do? You’ll learn your craft hands-on over the course of up to three placements – and you’ll also receive some of the best marketing training around. You will work in the areas of Brand Development and Brand Building. You could be working for a local company or a regional innovation centre, customer development or market research. There are even opportunities to work on an international assignment. Who is it for? We’re behind some the world’s most recognizable brands but resting on our laurels isn’t going to keep us competitive. To give us that constant edge, you’ll need expert knowledge of your brands and the people who use them. We are looking for people who are analytical yet creative, with good gut instinct and who’ll be able to find ways to make our products fly off the shelves. 

This position for Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP)

UFLP Customer Development:

• How would you position a new product in a competitive market?
• How would you persuade retailers to take it on, to put up new displays, to take the risk of buying lots of stock for something new and unfamiliar?
• What will you do? Over three placements, you will work in the areas of Account Management, Distribution Management & Category Management.
• Who is it for? Any work in this area demands a lot of motivation and an ability to tackle tough situations.
• After all, you’ll be on the front lines, working as an ambassador for our products, making sure people forget the competition and think of Unilever first.
• You will need strong self-motivation, have a passion to win and the ability to build strong relationships.