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International Business Development Manager - Action

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Degree level
Required language
Dutch (Fluent)

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International Business Development Manager - Action

Rotterdam

Full-time

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees. Over half (58%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Knorr, Dove, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry's, Marmite, Unox, Magnum and The Vegetarian Butcher.

BACKGROUND

The Global Value Channel is second only to e-Commerce in growth and importance across our business. To achieve our channel ambition, it is critical that that we continue to deliver sustainable growth ahead of the rest of the business also with Action. Together with Lidl and Aldi, Action is one of the centralized customers within the Value Channel.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Within the Global Customer Development Organized Retail team, you will be at the center of where global CD strategy is created and will be responsible for delivering long term results which shape the trajectory of our business.

Our ambition is to support our local markets to deliver both internal & external incremental value by delivering Customer Development Future-Fit priorities through strategic partnership with our global customers.

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS ROLE?

  • Lead the commercial relationship with Action, whilst delivering a sustainable and accelerated growth agenda.
  • Lead and deliver centralized contract negotiations on behalf of Unilever markets, focus on high impact growth or risk mitigation initiatives (focus on topline and competitive growth for Unilever).
  • Own the co-ordination, governance, and conflict resolution across Unilever markets for Lidl, whilst representing Unilever to this Retailer.
  • Represent Action to cross functional teams to deliver initiatives to unlock a future fit growth agenda (addressing the key requirements of its unique Customer Economic Model) – work closely with the Value Channel team as the key internal interface.
  • Develop and share customer-specific capabilities, best practice examples and negotiation learnings across Unilever market teams.

WHO ARE YOU:

This is a high-profile management role with exposure across both Global and Local Customer Development teams (within Unilever) and carries the accountability of leading the commercial relationship with Action together with delivering sustainable growth for Unilever. The role requires a strong manager who has potential to grow. The person in this role will have a commercial / selling background, with strong customer management and negotiation skills.

Next to that it would be ideal if you have:

A Passion for High Performance: you take personal responsibility for results and focus on high impact areas to deliver UL’s ambition both now and into the future.

Strong Business Acumen: You are comfortable experimenting with new ways to accelerate the business and have the confidence to know when to stick to the plan. You can create solutions by understanding what is important for both your customer and local market teams.

Personal Mastery: You are resilient and self-motivated. You are emotionally intelligent, respond productively to feedback and handle conflict effectively, seeking new ways to grow, continuously improve and be challenged.

This role involves influencing many cross-functional stakeholders to get what you need to deliver in front of the customer. You achieve results through strong business relationships.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

  • At least 5+ years commercial working experience in Customer Development or equivalent.
  • You are a best-in-class negotiator, who can create value for both the Customer & Unilever.
  • You know how to navigate through the organization and can influence at all levels.
  • You like to collaborate and are a true teambuilder.
  • Trade category and channel experience is an added advantage.
  • Professional English and Dutch is required. French/German would be considered as a bonus.

WHAT WE OFFER:

  • A very international role in a vibrant environment, full of opportunities and challenges.
  • Working on a fast-growing global Customer in a high developing channel.
  • A role where you can put your mark on the business of the future.
  • You are exposed to some of the biggest strategy programs in CD globally. You will build your strategic muscle.
  • A job where no day is the same and where you get a high level of autonomy.
  • You will be part of a diverse team, enjoying the fun of working in a culturally diverse international team.

FURTHERMORE WE OFFER SOME GREAT REWARD AND BENEFITS:

  • Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme
  • Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever
  • Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained
  • We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy
  • At the moment, we work from home. We will ensure you are well equipped for this. Once back to work, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with food prepped with own products
  • Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products

- A better world. A better business. A better you -
We’ve been pioneers, innovators and future-makers for over 120 years. The success we’ve achieved means that, today, 2.5 billion people will use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.
Our brands (such as Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Domestos/Glorix & Robijn)…


- A better world. A better business. A better you -

We’ve been pioneers, innovators and future-makers for over 120 years. The success we’ve achieved means that, today, 2.5 billion people will use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.

Our brands (such as Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Domestos/Glorix & Robijn) give us a unique opportunity to create positive change, to grow our business, and to achieve our purpose of making sustainable living commonplace.

FMCG
Rotterdam
Active in 190 countries
155,000 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 30 years

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