Ice Cream Sales Trainee

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

About The Magnum Ice Cream Company

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

Job Purpose

Ice Cream is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of The Magnum Ice Cream Company, this is the place for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Strategy & Business Plan
• Executing the Sales Strategy & Business Plan.
• Track and analyze the sales implementation including the trend.
• Think big and think tight through brainstorming and prioritizing key activities.
• Ensure in-store operational excellence.
• Sales capability building, people management (in distributor).
• Distributor Management and Development
• Design distributor’s sales and support infrastructure, establish the rewards and recognition system.
• Distributor profitability.
• Conduct the distributor audit & management of Distributor Contracts.
• In-depth understanding of Distributors (Distributors Insight)
• Other Sales Essential Activities
• Build and maintain productive customer relationships.
• Driving change management of Digitalization adoption.
• Develop strong relationships with key customers and strategic retailers to be dominant at the market.
• In-depth understanding of key retail customers.
  
  

Qualifications

• Willing to be placed all over Indonesia
• Fresh graduates/ bachelor’s degree in any majors is open
• Max 2 years’ working experience
• Min GPA 3.00 out of 4
• Strong interest in working in Sales
• Proactive & resilient
• Strong integrity
• Preferably participated/ leading in organization
• Experience as a leadership team in an organization
  
  

Demonstrated ability to lead for change WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Communication: Strong communication and negotiation skills with an ability to communicate across different levels of an organization.
• Excellent Microsoft office & Excel or Power BI to able to carry out analysis and interpretation of sales data.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to see the big picture and develop long-term plans to achieve business goals.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to work with cross-functional teams and build relationships with stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and environments.
• Leadership: Ability to inspire, motivate, and develop a high-performing team. Can work independently & in team.
• Consumer Love: Always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests in time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, proactive, can-do attitude, eagerness to learn and work well in a fast-paced environment
  
  

If these qualities resonate with you, we’d love to connect and explore how you can be part of our team.

Additional Information

As publicly announced, it is envisaged that Unilever will internally separate its Ice Cream business by July 2025, at which point this role will transfer to the new Ice Cream company. It is expected that the Ice Cream business will then separate from Unilever by the end of 2025. Any impact on terms and conditions of employment will be communicated in due course. This proposal is subject to consultation where legally required.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position

ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?

To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV, latest EoY and a motivation letter to [email protected].  If you have been informed that you are at risk of redundancy, please make sure to tick this box during your application. Please also attach your letter of redundancy to the application.

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.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to apply for other positions.

Disclaimer 

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

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity 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 bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.