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Associate Customer Business Manager

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Unilever

Associate Customer Business Manager

Rogers, AR
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Title: Associate Customer Business Manager

    Location: Rogers, AR

    Background & Purpose of the Job:

    Unilever is accelerating growth at Walmart through Retail and Walmart eCommerce/Omnichannel as channel diversity is becoming ever more critical to Unilever’s growth. The Associate Customer Business Manager will help manage the Walmart business, define assortment, and channel strategies, and analyze the business to drive growth. This associate will help drive profitable sales volume and develop sustained business relationships with Walmart. This role will be based in the Bentonville, Arkansas area (preferred).

    Who You Are & What You will Do:

    The ACBM will report to the Customer Business Manager. The ACBM is responsible for helping achieve volume goals while maintaining spending goals based on the joint business plan. An ACBM must be able to juggle multiple projects at once while maintaining a precise business acumen. They will drive profitable sales volume for Unilever and are responsible for analyzing POS & turnover, forecasting sales, growing category and brand share, and trade marketing spend management. The ACBM will leverage retail & eCommerce best practices and fundamentals and work closely with our internal Consumer & Market Insights Team, Shopper Marketing Team, Field Sales Team, Brand Teams, and Customer Development Team to identify top growth opportunities for Walmart. They will own relationships with Walmart buyers and Walmart cross-functional teams on joint business plans to commercialize and deliver on these opportunities.

    You are a born leader: At Unilever, everyone has a responsibility to take the lead and everyone has the opportunity to make a difference. Leadership is about impact and behavior, not job titles and work levels. It is everyone’s business, not just the manager’s business.

    Your actions demonstrate people first: Creating culture and people development are your passion areas. You thrive on developing & motivating people to perform at their best and welcome the responsibility to set the tone for those around you

    You are a self-starter: You love working with ambiguity, developing new solutions and influencing change with a strong bias for action.

    You’re a dot connector: Seeks to understand broader business goals and plans and ensures that goals/plans in their own unit/location are not in conflict. This person can pull together the pieces to create a strategic plan at the customer.

    You generate breakthrough ideas: You enjoy the challenge of coming up with new ways to deliver growth.

    You’re a storyteller: A good leader is able to pause, listen and bring together multiple data points to tell an influential story on the business objective. Story telling is key to helping sell internally and externally what you need to win in the marketplace.

    You’re a changemaker: Focuses effort on continuous improvement, work simplification and the elimination of non-value-added work

    Key Responsibilities:

    • This position will require an intense understanding and use of Walmart’s Retail Link data; analyzing pricing, dollar and unit volume trends, promotions, shopper marketing activations, and new item performance in Walmart B&M and dotcom.
    • This position will own customer administration, which includes tasks like new item set-up, sales forecasting, portfolio management, in addition to, partnering with cross-functional teams to meet operational targets such as turnover, category growth, margin, and competitive share growth across Brick & Mortar, dot.com, and Online Grocery Pickup.
    • This position will require regular interaction with Walmart buyers and cross-functional teams. Strong understanding of Walmart’s Go to Market strategy, strong communication, and a customer-focused mindset are critical to servicing the customer in this role.
    • Coordinate annual planning efforts and drive trade investment effectiveness and ROI
    • Lead shopper marketing and category strategic initiatives that support your business plan
    • Lead innovation strategy and execution along with managing the core of the core distribution
    • Coordinate annual Joint Business Plans at Walmart, spanning entire Omni-Channel
    • Partner internally to align and meet Customer & Unilever objectives with Customer Development, Brand, Shopper Marketing, Shopper Insights, eCommerce, and Supply Chain
    • Be strategic as well as manage the day-to-day details, requiring strong analytical skills and processing large amounts of data
  • Qualifications

    What You’ll Need To Succeed:

    • Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred
    • Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, IRI and/or Nielsen, Forecasting and Financial tools
    • 3+ years’ experience in CPG or Retail industry, including roles in sales, customer development, customer management or buying
    • Prior experience in eCommerce or Omni-channel management preferred
    • Strong negotiation skills and experience in owning/meeting commercial targets
    • Ability to forecast sales and manage trade investment and return on investment
    • Must have proven success building customer relationships and effectively communicating with a wide variety of leaders
    • Must be able to provide clear leadership to a broad cross-functional business team to execute against business strategies. Strong track record of collaborating and influencing a wide variety of stakeholders, internal and external.
    • Must be a strategic thinker that can balance data and insights with big picture thinking.
    • Must demonstrate ability to leverage future trends and market insights and think creatively when building business plans and influencing the customer.
    • Working knowledge of eCommerce retail basics, traffic & conversion drivers, Search, the consumer’s path to purchase journey, and pureplay retailer models.

    What We Can Offer You

    Culture for Growth | Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being Benefits | Every Voice Matters | Global Reach | Life at Unilever | Careers with Purpose | World Class Career Development Programs | Check Out Our Space | Focus On Sustainability


    Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. For more information, please see Equal Employment Opportunity PostersEqual Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Persons with DisabilitiesEmployment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.

    If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at NA.Accommodations@unilever.com. Please note: This email is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses.

  • Industry
    Consumer Goods
  • Fun Fact
    Unilever offers seriously cool benefits like flexible working environment, on-site gym and Tigi salon, well-being incentives, and all-you-can-eat ice cream.
  • About Us

    Unilever has a simple but clear purpose – to make sustainable living commonplace. They believe this is the best long-term way for the business to grow. On any given day, two billion people from around the world use Unilever products from iconic brands like Dove, Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Dollar Shave Club, and Knorr to look good, feel good, and get more out of life.