Job Description

JOB TITLE: ASSISTANT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - FOOD Singapore Unilever International is...We treat our business as our own. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Glow & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe and SEAA. As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands. ABOUT UI UI will own and drive the growth from 1bn to 5bn by Building leading market share positions in S.M.I.L.E. ( Small Island Landlocked & Extreme) geographies to serve underserved geographies - combination of digital + in store execution Serving underserved diaspora and religious population with the right innovations, festival marketing activation and building a strategy to serve these underserved consumers Creating new innovations and marketing programs to serve underserved channels such as Corporate Partnerships, Govt ^ & NGO (GIN), Cross Border ecom, Discounters etc Serving underserved brands by building a global model to seed, incubate and scale brands especially in Health and beauty, Ecom and modern trade Building new niche and underserved categories like lip care, hand care, sun care, face care, dressings in D&E, Surface cleaning etc THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE... You will own the development of the Joint Business Plan(JBP) with each customer and is responsible for the delivery of sustainable and profitable growth across all retail touchpoints. WHERE THE REAL MAGIC HAPPENS... You will lead and manage Distributor, ensuring that it is optimised based on the changing nature of the retail landscape to remain ahead of the curve as market leaders. Drives continuous improvement in how we execute through thought leadership, data and insights and test and learn environments, pioneering new ways of working. TO BE A STAR YOU'RE LIKELY... Be a strategic, highly adaptable and entrepreneurial person Embrace a high growth mindset, with strong love for consumers, shoppers and customers Have excellent financial acumen and analytical skills Have excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills with senior stakeholders Have experience working and leading in cross-functional teams TO BE GREAT AT THIS, YOU’LL HAVE… With at least 1 to 3 years’ experience in FMCG industry in building brands globally, driving digital marketing, Customer Development and Trade Marketing You are a maverick, you don’t take no for an answer, you pioneer and are consumer obsessed Strong network with customers and senior stakeholders in the unilever business Deeply collaborative and work and win with others Have attention to detail and have a passion for execution