Customer Strategy & Planning (CSP) Category Specialist Lipton Ice Tea NL

UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR A CUSTOMER STRATEGY & PLANNING CATEGORY SPECIALIST - LIPTON ICE TEA - NL

Location: Hofplein, Rotterdam – the Netherlands

Local conditions apply

Full-time

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

ABOUT UNILEVER        

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future. 

We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model. 

CS&P combines strategic planning alongside operational excellence between the Customer Business Development teams and the Business Group/Business Unit, ensuring delivery of the Business Group and Unit’s critical KPIs. Ultimately the CSP team is responsible for creating the Customer Category Growth Strategy which informs brand and CD teams, drives the commercial strategy of the business unit, supports customers through objective insights and drives category growth.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

• You will report to the Customer Strategy & Planning Manager Lipton Ice Tea The Netherlands

• You will be working exclusively on the Lipton Ice Tea business within the greater Foods business.

• Delivering business targets by ensuring trade plans are developed and delivered per key customer.

• Be the category expert and together with your team provide key customers with objective advice, deep dives and quarterly reviews (category, promo and shelving plans).

• Creating great relationships with buyers & customer strategy managers in order to drive profitable value growth of the category and Lipton Ice Tea, measured by favorable annual scores of retail partners (AGS).

• Representing customer needs & category value drivers, ensuring alignment of customer & category strategy and brand plans together with the CSP manager & CSP country lead.

• Responsibility for creation & optimalisation of internal and external business updates, providing CD and marketing teams with valuable insights and actionable next steps.

• Responsibility for reviewing promotional strategies that deliver insights for IBP.

• Supporting broader Lipton NL team with rankings and business cases assumptions.

• Supporting broader Lipton NL team with ad-hoc analyses using external data like Nielsen or customer databases.

• Supporting, or driving, NRM deep dives within the broader Lipton NL team through executing data analyses.

• Keeping a close eye on our competitors and track them on key KPI’s.

• Supporting operational processes to ensure perfect execution of innovations.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Master’s degree in economics, Business Studies or Science, and a high level of numeracy and analytical skills / working with large datasets.

• The ideal candidate has experience in CD or CSP/category management.

• Excellent engagement, presentation, and communication skills, and an ability to manage a large and complex set of stakeholders.

• Managing large datasets and transforming data into compelling insights that communicate a strong story will be essential for this role.

• Moreover, our ideal candidate thrives in an agile environment with many stakeholders and loves to work together with different functions.

• Proactivity, flexibility and eagerness to learn & improve is crucial to continuously evolve our CSP team to a higher level.

• The perfect candidate is highly service oriented to both our external customers and internal teams.

• Fluent in Dutch (native speaking) & English.

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 & dynamic work environment    where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40%-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 (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Homework allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.   

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you! 

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against. 

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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