Ice Cream Commercial Operations Executive

Job Title: Ice Cream Commercial Operations Executive

Location: Kingston

JOB PURPOSE

Reports to:        2B CSP IH Operations Manager for Ice Cream

The Category Strategy & Planning team are a central part of the Ice Cream Business. With a primary focus on driving growth through customer collaboration and commercial acumen.

This role is ideal for a junior sales professional looking to deepen their understanding of the fundamentals of brand and category growth along with a diverse set of markets and customers.

Provide analysis and insight across a range of data sets to inform commercial strategy within and across customers.

If you’re looking to make impact in the business, have a desire to bring forward the voice of the customer and thrive in data driven decision making, then this is the role for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the in-year Commercial Plan delivery by providing analytical data inputs to inform short, medium and long-term decision making.
• P&L Analysis to inform dynamic funding decisions.
• Net Revenue Management analysis & recommendations, including pricing, mix management, Pack Price Architecture and promotional effectiveness.
• Support the CSP Manager in the delivery and execution of the Strategy to enable delivery of commercial targets across the customer base.
• Uphold execution standards through analysis and recommendations against core Customer Owned metrics (Distribution, Share of Shelf)
• Support the ice cream innovation agenda through expertise on channel, customer and market

Provide input to:

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experiences & Qualifications:

• Previous experience in a sales or marketing role is preferred

Key Interfaces:

• Commercial Strategy & Planning Team
• Ice Cream Leadership Team/CBMs/CAMs
• Category Management Team
• Brand Teams
• Finance

Key SOLs Required:

Personal Mastery – Always brings their best self.

Agility – Constantly curious and entrepreneurial.

Business Acumen – Generates value for Customers and Unilever.

Consumer Love – creates plans which deliver for our consumers.

Passion for high performance – inspires others to greater heights.

Key Skills Required:

Data analysis.

Presentation and strong Excel skills.

Issue identification & prioritisation– skilled in evaluating opportunities

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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