CSP Strategy, Insights, and Digital Commerce Specialist – Benelux & Europe

UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR CSP Strategy, Insights, and Digital Commerce Specialist – Benelux & Europe ​

Location: Hofplein, Rotterdam – the Netherlands

Local conditions apply

Full-time/Part-time

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future. 

We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model. 

Join the European & Benelux Digital Commerce team in Nutrition and collaborate to grow the business! The CSP Strategy, Insights and Digital Commerce team for Benelux & Europe foods is responsible for crafting a new direction for our foods business and the team aims to secure Unilever Nutrition's success in Digital Commerce within our top six EU markets. It is an integral part of the EU & Benelux Nutrition CSP team, which focuses on developing customer growth plans for our leading customers across Europe and Benelux. Digital Commerce is the fastest expanding channel in Nutrition Europe and holds a crucial role in the strategic agenda of this business unit.

Your role within the team will be to partner with marketing, customer development, and category teams to align omni-channel strategies with brand innovation and category plans. You will play a role in developing new ways of working for Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, embedding omni-channel readiness into our long-term strategic plans, and collaborating with marketing, customer development (CBD), and category vertical teams.

Besides that you act as the linking pin between Benelux and European teams, contributing to the broader CSP Strategy, Insights, and Digital Commerce agenda while maintaining a strong focus on local market priorities.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

IBP

• Help to improve our Benelux IBP process by steering insights into actionable plans

• Co-create long-term strategic growth plans and share these in collaboration with the Vertical CSP teams and CBD colleagues with our top customers

• Collaborate with category verticals to localize category growth strategies (CCGS) and co-develop objective category growth plans with customers.

• Provide strategic input into range reviews to deliver customer-centric solutions for both online and offline shelves.

Execution & Shopper Marketing

• Create shopper marketing strategy, based on shopper insights and analyses

• Create scalable methodologies for shopper marketing activations and retail media programs in alignment with customer development strategies.

• Define Execution standards at Category, Channel and Customer level

• Lead and execute data improvements projects and share and implement learnings across the top six EU markets

• Prioritization & Implementation in category plans

Digital Commerce

• Deliver clear frameworks for Perfect Store Online (PSO) and Win the Shelf to ensure superior online presence, visibility, and share of shelf (SOS/SOV).

• Leverage best practices from other countries towards Benelux and the other way around.

• Partner with CBD teams to embed omni-channel readiness into customer joint business plans (JBPs) and innovation pipelines.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Previously >3 year in experience in CSP/CBD/commercial role

• Ability to translate data points into relevant insights and based on these draft concrete action points and define next steps to translate these into customer growth plans

• Experience with working with data like Nielsen, IRI, GfK, etc.

• Experience with working in a cross functional environment

• Fluency in both English.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40%-60% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate.  For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products. 

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Homework allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.   

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you! 

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against. 

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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