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Unilever Customer Development (Sales) Intern

Location:
Philippines,
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Category:
Customer Development; Early Careers
Job ID:
R-54073
Date posted:
03/11/2025
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Unilever is one of the leading suppliers of consumer goods. We have more than 400 brands and our products are on sale in more than 190 countries. On any given day, 2 billion people use our products to look good, feel good and get more out of life.

Unilever Internship – Business Week – Customer Business Development
Business Week is a week-long immersion into the company followed by a guaranteed internship. It's open to current university students who are graduating in 2026.


About Unilever 

Unilever is one of the largest global fast-moving consumer goods companies that owns some of the world’s much-loved brands such as Dove, Axe, Rexona, Close Up, Pond’s, Clear, Sunsilk, Cream Silk, Breeze, Domex, Magnum, Knorr, Best Foods and more. Our products sold under our many brands are used 2 billion times a day and in over half the households on the planet. 
We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That is why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model. 

About Customer Development 
Customer Development develops one to be an expert in the marketplace. It is a function responsible for understanding consumers, negotiating and building relationships with business partners, creating new ways on how consumers can be reached, both through online and offline channels.

To win and lead in omnicommerce, connecting our consumers to our brands to drive category growth, you’ll build partnerships with our wide range of customers – ecommerce platforms, supermarkets, superstores, convenience stores, drug stores, discounters, online retailers, ice cream parlours and even theme parks.  

That could mean working together to maximise a new product launch, recommending the right range of products, developing marketing programs, negotiating an annual business plan, or looking for new business opportunities. Our Customer Insight and Innovation Centre allows us to work with our customers in exciting new ways.  Our people can make a big impact every day on a local level. 

Why should you apply?
1.    Be guaranteed of an internship and create real business impact in the company!
2.    Engage with Unilever leaders and build relationships with students from different universities around the Philippines
3.    Learn about the different functions in Unilever through fun activities and business cases in a weeklong immersion called Business Week

What does the Program Involve?
1.    Internship - A guaranteed (minimum 2-month) internship with your chosen function.  Internship start date is flexible depending on your school calendar. 
2.    Business Week - A weeklong immersion to the various functions of the company filled with networking sessions, business cases, talks from Unilever Leaders and more all done together with your fellow interns.
a.    Tentative schedule of Business Week is last week of July or first week of June. 

How can you apply? 
1.    Online Application: Complete the online application forms on the careers website
2.    Online Assessment: Complete the online assessment
3.    First Interview: Solve a business case through a pre-recorded digital interview
4.    Second Interview: Share more about yourself and interact with a Unilever Line Manager through a live virtual interview

*In the application form there is a possibility to upload your CV to fill out your personal details. This is not part of the selection process 

Please note: sometimes, correspondence may end up in your spam folder. Please regularly check your spam folder during the entire recruitment process. 
If you have any questions about your application or if you require special arrangements/reasonable adjustments to be made to complete any part of the application process, please contact the Talent Advisory Team via Unilever Careers Philippines on Facebook. 

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. At Unilever we are interested in every individual and the talent they can bring. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. 


Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products.

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Success Profile

Check out the top traits we're looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Ambitious
  • Leadership
  • Collaborative
  • Result-driven
  • Curious
  • Socially conscious
  • Digitally savvy

Performance Profile

As a Unilever Future Leader, you will gain a holistic understanding of the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, while being immersed into the Big U culture. Through rotational assignments and mentorships, you will learn to hone your leadership skills, and shape your own career.

Experiences can include:

  • Category management
  • Range review ownership
  • Managing customer relationships and promotional calendars
  • Performance reporting to the internal team
  • Cross functional experience among other departments.

Get an opportunity unlike any other, as a UFLP you have a platform to be as loud and impactful as you choose to be, whether that's dealing with major retailers, developing promotional and share winning strategies, or leading the industry in groundbreaking product developments or creative design.

Applicants are expected to be a recent graduate (minimum Bachelors) with 0-2 years industry experience.

Career Path

Below is just one example of a career path in Customer Development, at Unilever, everyone can shape their own adventure.

UFLP Customer Development Programme Customer Director Junior Customer Manager Where next? Global? Customer Business Manager 1 2 3 4 5
UFLP Customer Development Programme Customer Director Junior Customer Manager Where next? Global? Customer Business Manager 1 2 3 5 4

Culture at Unilever

At Unilever, we are committed to building a culture where everyone is empowered to bring their most authentic self to work. We are building an environment where everyone can collaborate, innovate, learn and celebrate each other. Below are some ways in which we are doing this:

  • "Making sustainable living commonplace": Our company motto promotes eco-friendly practices, fostering a greener future through collective commitment and conscious actions.
  • Diversity fuels innovation, inclusion empowers all. Unilever embrace both, fostering creativity, empathy, and equity for all employees.
  • We embrace innovation because it facilitates creativity, problem-solving, and growth, fostering a dynamic environment where new ideas thrive and flourish.
  • We will find ways to resonate your personal purpose with our Company's mission. Aligning individual goals with organizational purpose fosters fulfillment, commitment, and shared success.
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Our Benefits

At Unilever, we feel good about the work we do. We are working to build a better business, a better world and a better you. We care – it’s what we’re known for. And it’s why we support our people with flexible benefits and rewards that help them bring their purpose to life.

*Please note this is not an extensive list of benefits and rewards of being at Unilever. More information on the benefit package will be available upon joining the organisation. Policies are subject to change and may vary from those described.

Compensation

Competitive salary

Learning and development

Access to platforms and mentors to aid in your development

Health and wellbeing

Access to platforms to support your health & Wellbeing

Flexible working

Manage your work/life balance with our WFH policy (role and performance dependant)

Global Mobility

Opportunities for the right candidates to relocate (role and performance dependant)

Since Day 1, the UFLP program and Unilever have been a second home to me. I have discovered mentors and managers who not only encouraged me to excel but also entrusted me with responsibility from the outset. This has been a journey full of inspiration and long lasting friendships.
Aanya UFLP Human Resources

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