Marketing Activation Intern (Rolling Intake)

About Unilever Malaysia

Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England, and is the world's largest soap manufacturer where its products are available in around 190 countries. Its products include food, cleaning agents, toothpaste, consumer health products, tea, beauty products, personal care products, and many more.

Your role

In this role, your key responsibilities will be as follows:

• Support on Marketing Below-The-Line (BTL) and working closely with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Invoice and payment system management – vendor account management, query handling, invoices, and payment tracking, and spending process for goods/services received.
• Analyze the spent by portfolios and product categories/brands and recommend the opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure on-time payment to adhere to our payment policy as trustworthy business partners to our external partners.
• Work closely with brand managers to analyze and support sponsorship requests.
• Work with agencies and brand managers on inventory management.
• Support Activation Manager on special campaigns from agency briefing, planning, and execution to postmortem evaluation.

Training & development

Throughout the internship period, you will gain challenging yet rewarding industrial experience in a dynamic multinational corporation. What’s great, you will learn from the highly energetic team your peers, your line managers and senior leaders will help you develop your skills and competencies.

You will have an opportunity to work on a real challenging project and experience best-in-class training and development opportunities. You will work with a team and external creative agencies to realize a real-time marketing campaign.

Benefits

Aside from an attractive salary for an intern, by joining this internship, you will also get the following benefits:

• Experience best-in-class training and development opportunities
• Gain challenging yet rewarding industrial experience in a dynamic multinational corporation
• Learn from a highly energetic team your peers, your line managers, and senior leaders
• Develop your skills and competencies.

Career progression

Unilever may not mention what path you'll be on after finishing this internship. However, having internship experience in a global company like Unilever will add more value to your CV and ease the next step in your career especially if you want to pursue a career in the FMCG industry.

Work-life balance

The regular office working hours start at 9:00 am and end at 06:00 pm, from Monday to Friday. Some employees who left online reviews even state that Unilever let them have flexible work hours to opt for WFH or WFO.

Company culture

Unilever wants a world in which everyone is treated equally. The business is aware that its basis must be an equal workplace that values each and accords them with the freedom and chance to reach their full potential. Meanwhile, based on online reviews, most employees of Unilever Malaysia rate this company highly, stating that the company is a great place to work. You can expect to have a helpful team, friendly colleagues, and a good working environment when you work at Unilever.

About you

To join this internship program, you need to have the qualifications below:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field and have a strong career interest in Marketing Activations. Knowledgeable in Finance is a plus.
• Project management skills.
• Creative, meticulous, and analytical skills.
• Able to commit for at least 6 months
• Early graduates who are looking for internship experiences. 

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• careers.unilever.com
• jobstreet.com.my/en/companies/440080-unilever-malaysia-holdings
• glassdoor.com/Reviews/Unilever-Malaysia-Reviews-EI_IE3513.0,8_IL.9,17_IN170.htm