Unilever future leaders programme

Job Title UFLP - Nigeria - Customer Development

Function Customer Development / Customer Management (Sales)

Job Description 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, Category Management and Business to Business. In Account Management, you’ll work with a certain ‘type’ of customer, building relationships, developing promotions, negotiating and gathering an understanding of consumers. In Category Management, you’ll cover a category of products, becoming an expert on their marketplace, consumers and competitors and advising customers on suitable stocks for their demographics. In Business to Business, you’ll sell a range of food products, using your product expertise and relationship skills to keep preferred supplier relationships. 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.

Key Responsibilities What to expect

A real job from day one: The programme focuses on building leadership capability and accelerating your development. From the moment you join, you’ll be doing a real job. One that will provide insight to the business, continually test and develop your skills, and make a genuine contribution to our business. You'll also be involved on every level during a period of time. You will start from day 1 one in a real and existing Customer Development role, working directly for and with our customers. As you progress, the roles get more challenging which can mean managing larger budgets, bigger brands or more people.
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.
Career possibilities: At the end of your traineeship you’ll take a next step in developing yourself in the Customer Development area. In any way you will be part of our dynamic organization.

What will you be doing?

You’ll build partnerships with our wide range of customers and consumers so that we reach our target markets. That could mean working together to maximize a new product launch, recommending the right range of products, developing marketing programmes, negotiating an annual business plan, or looking for new business opportunities.
Qualifications

Who should apply?
Degree Requirement - Bachelors degree in any discipline
CGPA not less than 3.0 on a scale of 5 or its equivalent
Not more than 26years by Dec 2013
Work experience of 1year or less

Ask yourself these questions:
Would you enjoy working with a wide range of people, across a variety of functions?
Do you enjoy being part of a team and leading one (with all the responsibility that entails)?
Do you enjoy managing complicated projects, with demanding deadlines and budgets – as well as creative challenges?
Do you get a thrill from winning?
Are you motivated to develop yourself with fast pace to become one of Unilever’s future leaders?

Please note that applications close 12th November 2013.
Travel Required 10% - 25%
Removal Date 13-Nov-2013

To apply click visit the Jobs / Careers forum of a NaijaElite.com or click http://www.naijaelite.com/viewforum.php?f=4

Job Title UFLP - Nigeria - Human Resources
Function HR / HR Management

Job Description Human Resources is about creating a winning organisation: generating outstanding business performance through the development of people and teams. So how would you do this? What will you do? Wherever in the business you work, you’ll be building up experience of culture change, employee relations, leadership development and much more, getting an up close and personal view of HR at Unilever.

Who is it for?
We need people who are insightful and inspired to make a difference in developing our people and the organisation skills and capabilities required to be a winning business. You need to be passionate about people and confident in your ability to influence others.
Key Responsibilities What to expect

• A real job from day one: The program focuses on building leadership capability and accelerating your development. And from the moment you join, you’ll be doing a real job. One that will provide insight to the business, continually test and develop your skills, and make a genuine contribution to our business. You'll also be involved on every level. As you develop, the roles get more challenging which can mean managing larger budgets, bigger brands or more people.

• 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.

• Career possibilities: As you progress, you gain more experience and responsibilities as part of our HR business partnering team or in one of our HR expertise teams.
Qualifications
Who should apply?
Degree Requirement - Bachelors degree in any discipline
CGPA not less than 3.0 on a scale of 5 or its equivalent
Not more than 26years by Dec 2013
Work experience of 1year or less

Ask yourself these questions:
Would you enjoy working with a wide range of people, across a variety of functions?
Do you enjoy being part of a team and leading one (with all the responsibility that entails)?
Do you enjoy managing complicated projects, with demanding deadlines and budgets – as well as creative challenges?
Do you get a thrill from winning?
Are you motivated to develop yourself with fast pace to become one of Unilever’s future leaders?

Please note that applications close 12th November 2013.
Travel Required 10% - 25%
Removal Date 13-Nov-2013

To apply click visit the Jobs / Careers forum of a NaijaElite.com or click http://www.naijaelite.com/viewforum.php?f=4

Job Title UFLP - Nigeria - Supply Chain
Function Supply Chain / Supply Chain Management

Job Description How do you get 12,000 litres of ice cream across the desert without it melting? How do you transform the world’s largest spreads factory or bring an innovative new product to life? What will you do? Here we have a degree preference: Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, or Statistics. You'll also need to be passionate about delivering for the business, have clear thinking which will guide you to make sound decisions and have the ability to work with a real cross section of people.
Key Responsibilities What to expect?

• Genuine job-responsibility from day one: The programme focuses on building leadership capability and accelerating your development. So from the moment you join, you’ll be doing a real job. One that will provide insight to the business, continually test and develop your skills, and make a genuine contribution to our business. You'll also be involved on every level (for example, from working on the factory floor to spending time in a supermarket). As you progress, the roles get more challenging which will also mean managing larger budgets, bigger brands or more people.

• 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.

• Career possibilities: As you progress you’ll take responsibility for projects within a business unit, either locally within a country or internationally working on the development of our regional and global business strategies.

What will you be doing?

You will work across local, regional and global teams. You will be making decisions that directly determine the future of our brands, the way we work with our customers and how we run our supply chain.

Qualifications
Who should apply?
Degree Requirement - Bachelors degree in any discipline
CGPA not less than 3.0 on a scale of 5 or its equivalent
Not more than 26years by Dec 2013
Work experience of 1year or less

Ask yourself these questions:
Would you enjoy working with a wide range of people, across a variety of functions?
Do you enjoy being part of a team and leading one (with all the responsibility that entails)?
Do you enjoy managing complicated projects, with demanding deadlines and budgets – as well as creative challenges?
Do you get a thrill from winning?
Are you motivated to develop yourself with fast pace to become one of Unilever’s future leaders?

Please note that applications close 12th November 2013.
Travel Required 10% - 25%
Removal Date 13-Nov-2013

To apply click visit the Jobs / Careers forum of a NaijaElite.com or click http://www.naijaelite.com/viewforum.php?f=4

Job Title UFLP - Nigeria - Finance
Function Finance / Financial Management

Job Description How do you go beyond the huge figures associated with multi-million euro brands and get to the heart of what they mean? And how would you transform a product that’s already doing impressively into something that’s truly astounding? What will you do?
Key Responsibilities
What to expect?

• Genuine job-responsibility from day one: The programme focuses on building leadership capability and accelerating your development. So from the moment you join, you’ll be doing a real job. One that will provide insight to the business, continually test and develop your skills, and make a genuine contribution to our business. You'll also be involved on every level. As you progress, the roles get more challenging which will also mean managing larger budgets, bigger brands or more people.

• 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.

• Career possibilities: As you progress you’ll take financial responsibility for a business unit, either locally within a country or internationally working on the development of our regional and global business strategies.

What will you be doing?

You will work across local, regional and global teams. We are trusted advisors right across the business and you’ll be in the thick of influencing strategy and investment decisions from day one. You will be making decisions that directly determine the future of our brands, the way we work with our customers and how we run our business.

Qualifications
Who should apply?
Degree Requirement - Bachelors degree in any discipline
CGPA not less than 3.0 on a scale of 5 or its equivalent
Not more than 26years by Dec 2013
Work experience of 1year or less

Ask yourself these questions:
Would you enjoy working with a wide range of people, across a variety of functions?
Do you enjoy being part of a team and leading one (with all the responsibility that entails)?
Do you enjoy managing complicated projects, with demanding deadlines and budgets – as well as creative challenges?
Do you get a thrill from winning?
Are you motivated to develop yourself with fast pace to become one of Unilever’s future leaders?

Please note that applications close 12th November 2013.
Travel Required 10% - 25%
Removal Date 13-Nov-2013

To apply click visit the Jobs / Careers forum of a NaijaElite.com or click http://www.naijaelite.com/viewforum.php?f=4

Job Title ULFP - Nigeria - Marketing
Function Marketing

Job Description How exactly do you make some of Nigeria's most popular brands even more popular? How do you take products that in some cases have a 100-year heritage behind them and make them more desireable to our customers and consumers? What will you do? How will you make a difference?
Key Responsibilities
What will you be doing?

You’ll be constantly deepening the already expert knowledge of our brands and the people who use them. You’ll use this level of insight to help develop our products’ personalities and bring them to life. That could mean working on the launch of a new seasoning mix, undertaking research on the latest trends in personal care, looking at sponsorship opportunities for our tea brands or planning a digital campaign for Omo or Sunlight.

Qualifications
Who should apply?
Degree Requirement - Bachelors degree in any discipline
CGPA not less than 3.0 on a scale of 5 or its equivalent
Not more than 26years by Dec 2013
Work experience of 1year or less

Ask yourself these questions:

Would you enjoy working with a wide range of people, across a variety of functions?
Do you enjoy being part of a team and leading one (with all the responsibility that entails)?
Do you enjoy managing complicated projects, with demanding deadlines and budgets – as well as creative challenges?
Do you get a thrill from winning?
Are you motivated to develop yourself with fast pace to become one of Unilever’s future leaders?

Please note that applications close 12th November 2013.
Travel Required 10% - 25%
Removal Date 13-Nov-2013

To apply click visit the Jobs / Careers forum of a NaijaElite.com or click http://www.naijaelite.com/viewforum.php?f=4