Customer Manager Woolworths Personal Care/Beauty & WellbeingWho we are? On any given day, 2.5 billion people globally use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.
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Job Summary Externally facing, the role needs to manage the customer by developing strong working relationships with key contacts, as well as leading the customer agenda internally within Unilever.
The Customer Manager is responsible for delivering the P&L for their category including turnover, profitability, trade spend, and market share delivery, while building, negotiating, and executing the commercial joint business plan with the customer.
Role Responsibilities: The Customer Manager will be responsible for driving key business outcomes and fostering strong relationships both internally and externally through:
Delivery of turnover, customer profitability, and total trade spend budgets for their category.
Developing strong relationships with both internal (e.g., Category Manager, Shopper Insights Managers, Marketing) and external customers (e.g., Category Managers, Trading Managers, Category Directors, Buyers, Supply contacts, Marketing contacts).
Developing and delivering joint business and promotional plans with the customer.
Day-to-day administration and evaluation of the product portfolio (e.g., promotional evaluation).
Leading range and merchandising reviews (where appropriate), working in collaboration with Category Management and Digital Lead.
Working with the lead to develop and deliver the local customer strategy plan.
Delivering key category team initiatives at the customer level (e.g., price increases, brand activation, NPD).
Working with the Customer Service Team to ensure customer service issues are resolved efficiently.
What you will need to succeed Experience & Qualifications Experience in FMCG Account Management
Great Networking abilities
Business Development experience
Excellent commercial acumen with proven ability to solve problems and create sustainable value
Skills Selling & Negotiation skills
Relationship building
Bias for action, attention to detail
Ability to "mine" market data including Nielsen, Homescan
Good presentation skills
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.
What awaits you at Unilever? The core of Unilever's culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable.
You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspiring work environment that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success.
This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose-led business and a global community where you can progress your career both locally and internationally.
You will also benefit from amazing discounts on external company products, attractive employee referral reward program amongst other benefits.
This is a great opportunity to work within an iconic and global organization.
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