“My proudest Unilever moment was launching a Personal Care booklet that was distributed to almost 2000 merchandisers across the country. This helped ensure flawless execution at store level.” - Ntombesizwe Vabaza, Customer Development Unilever Future Leader
“At Customer Development we are the frontlines of the battlefield. Execution in the market and collaboration with our customers are part of our day to day agenda.” - Thabile Khuzwayo
"The culture at Unilever is very people oriented. It's very vibrant, very fast paced and enjoyable." Keagan Sloman - Customer Development Future Leader
No matter how appealing our products are, if they aren’t on shelves they can’t sell. It’s up to our Customer Development team to work with our Customers (e.g. Shoprite, Pick and Pay and Wholesalers) to develop strategies on how best to serve our consumers. This includes joint business planning, strategic negotiation and ensuring that the shopper always chooses Unilever brands as their products of choice.
Rotation in Category Operations:
You’ll drive category growth through the execution of relevant activities and innovations. Some of the activities involve managing trade budgets for your categories, providing input to Supply Chain in terms of demand and partnering with Finance to ensure profitability.
Rotation in Brand Building:
You will understand the brands you sell from a consumer and shopper perspective. You will take the brand toolkit and make it come alive in your market, as well as exploring different channels to explode your brand messaging.
Rotation in National Accounts:
You will be the face of Unilever to our key retail and wholesale customers and will work directly with them to ensure that our products are available to their shoppers in the right place and at the right price, thereby ensuring profitable growth.
Other short rotations will include:
Field Sales and CD Operations.
Above is just a guideline
This may vary according to business needs.
Our global learning programmes are regarded as the best in the industry. We have internal academies for each business area designed to develop employees in functionally specific capabilities.
We are always looking to connect with people who have an interest in a sustainable future.