Commercial Trade Assistant – Unilever Food Solutions

Job Details

Join us as Commercial Trade Assistant at Unilever Food Solutions.

Reports to: Key Account Manager Trade & eCommerce
Scope: Netherlands – Foodservice industryLocation: Rotterdam, the NetherlandsLocal employment conditions apply, full-time

Are you commercially driven, customer-focused, and a true connector? Do you take ownership, embrace challenges, and stop only once sustainable solutions are found? Are you eager to learn from experienced Key Account Managers while rapidly developing your commercial skills? Then we would love to meet you.

About Unilever Food Solutions

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the 2nd largest Business Unit of Unilever, one of the 3 Power brands of the Foods Business Group, and a global market leader in Food Service. We are an independent Global Business Unit that operates in over 76 countries and employs approximately 4000 employees. We have a unique B2B business model focused on serving chefs, and our purpose is to free them to love what they do.

We at UFS have a bold and clear ambition and strategy in place for 2030 with a strong ambition on turnover and profitability, by being the best solution provider to our growing operator base. We plan to do this via a product-first focus on superiority, by becoming the leader in AI-powered customer experience, and by nurturing a winning culture.

We have a culture of caring deeply not just for our business but also for our people. We foster an entrepreneurial culture built on speed, simplicity, trust, and a deep hunger to grow. Our people thrive in empowered end-to-end roles across all functions, and we invest heavily in building future skills and leaders.

About the team

At Unilever Food Solutions, teams work closely together with one shared goal: enabling chefs to focus fully on their guests. We engage customers on-site, communicate through our own and partner channels, and work closely with Route to Market partners to ensure optimal product availability.

As Commercial Trade Assistant, you are, together with your colleagues, the first point of contact for our wholesale partners. You work closely with key players such as Sligro, Bidfood, Makro, and Hanos. By deeply understanding their businesses, you proactively identify opportunities and contribute to sustainable partnerships and mutual growth.

This is a versatile internal sales role with extensive internal and external interaction, offering strong development opportunities and real commercial impact.

About this job

Within Customer Development, we are looking for a Commercial Trade Assistant for Unilever Food Solutions.

In this role, you support and strengthen Account Managers within the Foodservice channel and are jointly responsible for the commercial success of our brands Knorr and Hellmann’s. Together, you represent Unilever Food Solutions towards customers and actively contribute to revenue growth, promotional execution, data-driven insights, and effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

You connect analysis with action and thrive in a dynamic environment where multiple customers, projects, and disciplines come together. No two days are the same.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting Account Managers working with Foodservice wholesalers
• Independently managing promotion planning, online content alignment, and commercial administration
• Analyzing sales performance, promotional results, forecasts, and market data, translating insights into concrete actions
• Maintaining and updating systems, reports, and commercial data
• Collaborating closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance
• Building, maintaining, and strengthening customer relationships
• Actively contributing to projects, customer activation, and market execution
• Ensuring excellent execution and high customer satisfaction together with the Account Manager

About you

• Bachelor’s degree (HBO level) in Marketing, Business Management, International Business, Commercial Economics, or similar
• Preferably around two years of experience in a commercial or sales support role, or relevant internship experience
• Strong analytical skills and capable of working in a project-driven environment
• Affinity with FMCG and/or Foodservice
• Solid skills in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Self-starter, proactive, and strong communicator
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Passion for great food
• Fluency in Dutch and proficiency in English are a must

Preferred qualifications

• Entrepreneurial mindset with ambition to grow within Sales
• Energized by change and dynamic environments
• Experience with SAP is an advantage

Additional information

• You will become part of the Trade team in the Netherlands, consisting of approximately six colleagues.
• You will work in a hybrid setup, with three days per week in the Rotterdam office and remaining days flexibly.
• Unilever offers an environment with strong opportunities for development, entrepreneurship, and long-term career growth.

What is in it for you?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting and dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great rewards and benefits.

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities and wellbeing resources whenever and wherever
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained
• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products
• My Fitness Plan (deduction on your Fitness Subscription)
• Home working allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Green Mobility Policy