Retail Innovation Internship (Apr 2023)

About Unilever Malaysia

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

Your role

Here are the responsibilities that you will do:

• Develop strong commercial awareness by building a strong foundation, understanding the retail & shopper landscape from the lens of a Customer, Shopper and Consumer. To enable the team to achieve execution excellence by building the required toolkit.
• Execute POSM and visibility cycle in timely manner.
• Execute activation with a post-activation report.
• Support in planning of T+3 months visibility & activation Calendar for all 5 Business Units.
• Support in managing tracker of assets and GWP (Gift of Purchase).
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and support in managing outputs of third-party agencies.

Training & development

In this internship at Unilever Malaysia, you will have an opportunity to work on a real challenging project and experience best-in-class training and development opportunities. You will learn from a highly energetic team of your peers, your line manager and be guided by a member of the customer strategy & planning leadership team who will help you develop your skills and competencies.

Compensation & benefits

Unilever Malaysia doesn't inform the salary of the interns. However, based on the information submitted by participants on the other website, the interns at Unilever Malaysia could earn MYR 12,000 per year. It is taken from Glassdoor, there is no salary range given.

Career progression

This internship program allows you to focus on improving the shopping experience for shoppers in order to drive sales both in-store as well as creating necessary toolkits and execution plans to enable the Sales team to achieve shopper excellence. You'll be based in Malaysia and working with the team in Singapore.

Work-life balance

As reviewed by Unilever Malaysia's employees at Glassdoor, the company applied a good work-life balance. The workload given to the interns is reasonable as the job desc described.

Culture & vibe

Unilever is an organization committed to equity, inclusion, and diversity. You will also collaborate with an outstanding team that will support you to develop your skills. Unilever also has such a comfortable and cool office.

About you

To apply for this internship position, you have to meet the following qualifications:

• Undertaking tertiary education at a Bachelor/Diploma level and have a strong career interest in shopper marketing and FMCG. 
• Proficient knowledge in Microsoft Office Applications (Word and Excel), particularly Excel working knowledge of formulas and Pivot Table function.
• High attention to detail.
• Good organization skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented and able to work independently under minimum supervision.
• Able to commit for at least 6 months internship starting from April/May 2023.

How to apply

To apply for this job, click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page. We will direct you to Unilever's official link for this vacancy. Make sure that you have read all the requirements mentioned above.