Unilever Nigeria Future Leaders Programme 2020 - Graduate Customer Development

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Applications are invited for:

Title: Unilever Future Leaders Program - Graduate Customer Development

Job Number: 200002FP
Location: Nigeria

Description

• At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of one of the most successful, purpose-led businesses. Work with brands that are loved around the world, improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We produce world-leading brands including Rexona, Lipton, Axe, and Hellmann’s, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Knorr, Pepsodent, lifebuoy etc.
• Work alongside brilliant and inspiring industry leaders and colleagues. If you want to feel proud of what you do and make others proud too, join us. Get a glimpse into life at Unilever and discover how you can help make a better business, a better world and a better you.

What will you be doing?
Customer Development (Sales):  

• How exactly do you make some of the world’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 up to date?  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?  
• Within Customer Development you will take on these challenges and bring our beloved brands to life for our customers, shoppers, and consumers.  
• 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.
• Our people have the opportunity to make a big impact every day on a local level, across Africa and the globe.

What do we look for?
Whichever area you work in, you’ll need to be ambitious, an excellent analytical thinker with a drive for getting things done and a real talent for delivering through others.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
• A strong academic track record.
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• High levels of motivation, enthusiasm and personal initiative and drive
• Strong analytical skills

What will the programme involve?

• The programme is designed to develop and build business leader mindset to further embed the owner’s mindset, understand how the full business operates end to end and cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit through hands-on learning alongside world-class experts.
• You’ll develop your individual leadership skills by working on live projects which offer you all the experience you need to become ready for your first management role. Over 3 - 5 years you’ll cover at least four milestones to provide experience in key business and functional areas

What will you learn?

• Learning from Experience: You will experience yourself evaluating innovation launches on global brands like Rexona and Ponds, or shaping investment decisions with major customer.
• Learn from People: you will get the business coaching from experienced managers, individual mentor and even a buddy.
• Formal Learning: You will have training sessions that encompasses a mix of professional, business and leadership skills. For Professional training, in the first and second year, you’ll be having three weeks of some of the best Supply Chain training around through the Unilever Supply Chain Foundation. After the first year, a wide range of internal and external training programmes are available to develop both your skills and competencies as you progress your career.

Support and empowerment:

• We'll support you every step of the way to senior management but much of your progress will be up to you.
• You'll need to be focused and ambitious to get where you want, identifying opportunities and taking responsibility for your own development. We have a proven tradition of developing our own purpose driven leaders and encourage innovative thinking. Future focused 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. Come join us create a Bright Future Made You.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.