Scope: Permanent

Location: Copenhagen Office

Terms & Conditions: Full time

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company.​ A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded.

We craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.​ Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.​

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Frisko, Magnum, Cornetto, Wall’s and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries. We are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.  We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.  

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.  

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.​ 

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you! 

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & PURPOSE:

You will be part of our Category Strategy & Planning team working out of our local Copenhagen office. You will be an integral part in building, developing and maintaining credible, long term, category lead relationships both internally & externally. In addition, you will be the voice of the consumer and shopper in the organization delivering actionable insights that unlocks and deliver value for the category and for our customers. You will be the category expert and turn insights into actions with best-in-class execution, analysis, and evaluation of category plans. You will manage the end-to-end path, delivering range reviews with customers and providing leading edge Category Management solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Utilise the Category Growth Model to develop customer and category growth opportunities enabled by category understanding and actionable insights. Tailoring the Category Growth Model to the customers by delivering bespoke customer initiatives using a shopper first approach.
• Utilize and understand multiple data sources (Nielsen, Kantar, Household Panel, market demographic data, EPOS and loyalty data) and partner closely with agencies to identify appropriate insights to generate recommendations for category & range reviews.
• Understand how the shopper is shopping the category and identifying opportunities for both consumers, shoppers and customers. Bringing the shopper & consumer view to the Ice Cream Business Unit, supplying the insights and recommendations into identifying new innovations, price positioning, evaluating promotional plans and building Joint Business Plans.
• Monitor implementation and review of range recommendations enabling SKU optimization and optimum product mix.
• Coordinate the new product launch process to customers by adapting trade stories and trade presentations to local conditions and needs, delivering key category/customer reporting and ad hoc analysis as required.  

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:  

As the ideal candidate you have a passion for Ice Cream, insights, analysis, consumers & shoppers and have a natural talent for identifying growth opportunities. Your well-developed interpersonal skills enable you to build strong working relationships across the organisation and with our customers.

Furtermore we are looking for

• 3+ years’s professional experience from the FMCG industry in a Category Manager role or similar like Sales, Marketing or finance/data & analytics
• A positive, self-going, proactive and solution-focused mindset
• Data-driven thinking and strong analytical skills
• Strong project management and planning competencies
• Structured and the ability to work with several tasks and processes simultaneously.
• Ability to present detailed market data in a simple and comprehendible format conveying actionable insights
• Strong communication skills to enable efficient communication to all levels in the organization – from field sales to sales management and senior management.
• Experience with Nielsen and YouGov/GfK
• Solid MS Office skills (especially Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI)

Please note that fluency in Danish and English is needed for this role.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

• A unique mix of global scale & start-up spirit – a €8.3bn powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset. We’re building a new high growth Ice Cream company from the ground up. ​
• A performance-driven culture - Freedom to act, disrupt and grow – your success is measured by impact.​
• Career without limits - 42 markets, international opportunities, and fast-tracked growth. ​
• A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose - we create extraordinary careers, just like our ice cream creates extraordinary moments.

Magnum Ice Cream Company embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position.

ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?

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.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.