Internship - Customer Strategy & Planning 2024 - January - Marketing

The Programme

Trade Marketing at Unilever, is known as Customer Strategy and Planning (CSP) is part of the key business function that aims to increase demand with supply chain partners such as wholesalers, retailers, or at the distributor level. Most importantly, it also involves key customer business planning.  

As a wider marketing discipline, you need to keep your brand relevant in the market through outstanding trade visibility. By working with the world’s most well-known brands, you will manage the essential elements of the marketing mix by enrolling into our top-notch marketing program. 

You'll be part of a cross-functional team and partner with key internal stakeholders such as the sales, marketing and supply chain team, this will include external supply agencies to realize a real-time marketing campaign.  

Throughout your internship, you’ll acquire valuable industrial experience within a dynamic multinational corporation. 

What’s great, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from a highly motivated team of peers, inspirational line managers, and senior leaders who will guide you in developing your skills and competencies for personal growth. It's a challenging yet rewarding experience. 

This internship will help in your professional development, foster leadership skills, and enhance your ability to handle multiple stakeholders across various functions and manage multiple brands within a category. 

If you are ​interested in kick-starting your career in Trade Marketing and getting a closer look at how our company approaches the areas with Sales & Growth Strategizing, Pricing & Promotion Planning and Effective Campaign Execution, we’d like to meet you. 

What You Will Do

• To ensure smooth executions across channel and customer by constant tracking the progress of each project.
• Support existing CSP managers on day-to-day tasks and follow through the details and communication with other parties.
• Sharing and contributing to the ideation and activity planning for key marketing campaigns. 

Required Skills and Abilities

• To complete all assigned activities successfully as per planned.
• Follow up constantly to ensure timely execution.
• Able to effectively assist CSP managers in order to create a better trade plan and execution to drive higher growth rate to total Ice Cream business.
• After program completion, the intern should obtain a better understanding of Business Acumen, develop coordination skills and problem-solving skills.

Experiences & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field and have a strong career interest in Trade Marketing and Fast-Moving Consumers Goods.
• ​Able to commit for at least 3 to 6 months.
• ​Early graduates who are looking for internship experiences. 

Skills:

• You are equipped with creative, analytical skills and a solution-oriented mindset, and show the ability to drive innovation and brand growth.
• ​You are proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Word and Excel), particularly Excel working knowledge of formulas and Pivot Table function.
• ​You have proven project management skills and show initiative and flexibility to handle multiple priorities under pressure.
• ​You have good organizational skills and are detail-oriented and able to work independently under minimum supervision.
• ​You have excellent communication skills - both verbal and written.
• ​You demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills - able to engage with many stakeholders in an organized manner. 

Leadership:

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience.
• You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better. 

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invest time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

About Unilever:

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good.

Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes: use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, many Malaysian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life-giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future. 

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you will be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you will channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you.

As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we will work to help you become a better you.