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
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What You’ll Need To Succeed:
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.
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