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Unilever Global Opportunities in Marketing, Customer Development &
Research & Development
Shanghai Management Trainee Program
ABOUT UNILEVER:
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with operations in over 100
countries and sales in 190. Consumers buy 170 billion Unilever packs around the world every year, and our
products are used over two billion times a day. We have more than 171,000 employees, and generated annual
sales of €46.5 billion in 2011.
Working to create a better future every day, we help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with
brands and services that are good for them and good for others.
Unilever’s history in China goes back 85 years ago, when Lever Brothers established the China Soap Company in 1923
in Shanghai. We re-entered the market in China in 1986. Presently, our portfolio includes major brand icons such as
Dove, Lux, Clear, Rexona, Lipton, Pond’s, Comfort, OMO, Zhonghua, Wall’s, Knorr etc. Unilever China is a large and
successful company, with more than 5,000 employees in China and generating €1.2 billion in sales in 2009. Our
ambition is to double our size by 2015. For more information, please visit www.unilever.com.cn/
Marketing @ Unilever:
Unilever is one of the leading marketing organizations in the world. We are the home of brand marketing
excellence. We’ve been writing the rules of branding for over 100 years – from the world’s first brand, Sunlight
Soap, to world-class brands like Dove, Omo, Flora, Lipton, and Knorr. We do some of the most creative marketing
in the world. Dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign is shaking up the beauty industry. Omo’s ‘dirt is good’ campaign
encourages kids to get dirty – because that way they can get more creative and get more out of life. Brand
activation like the Flora marathon is world-famous. With each passing year, our brands are growing from strength
to strength.
As a marketer in Unilever, you will have the opportunity to:
 Engage deeply with consumers to develop a rich understanding of their preferences and needs
 Develop a full understanding of our brands, their key attributes and their consumer appeal
 Operate at a Global, Regional and Local level across a broad range of categories and brands
 Experience world-class professional development in a challenging, dynamic environment
 Lead significant work assignments with profoundly satisfying opportunities to build business and brand
equity.
Customer Development @ Unilever:
Our brands need to be available wherever and whenever shoppers want them. In a changing world, that means
much more than keeping store shelves stocked. In Customer Development, we keep ahead of the latest
development – negotiating and championing our brands to be heroes across each and every channel. You will be
delivering strategies that allow our retail partners to grow their categories by delivering actionable, in depth insight
on our customers.
As a Customer Development Management Trainee, you will have the opportunity to:
 Develop skills a strategic thinker
 Know better how to build a profitable and growing business
 Seek insights into shopper trends, habits and behaviors
 Gain broad experience by working in different markets
 Learn through best in class tools, process and tools.
 Develop a real business mind
Research & Development @ Unilever:
Unilever has recently opened one of our six global R&D centers in Shanghai. Our new R&D center will be home to
600 scientists and technologists (450 people today), as well as the latest technology on chemistry, structured
materials and naturals, and several pilot plants. Unilever R&D China is unique. We span the entire spectrum of
Unilever business streams, covering Foods, Home and Personal Care. Across areas of fundamental research,
formulation & pack design and Go-to-market activities. Together with being located in China, the world’s fastestgrowing market, this provides unique opportunities for our growth and development.
From fundamental research and long-term studies; to implementing new products in the market place and
promotional packaging; from innovation to renovation; from toothpaste and shampoo to teabags and professional
seasonings – wherever you want your career to go, Unilever R&D can take you there.
As a Research & Development Management Trainee, you will have the opportunity to:
 Create new innovations and technologies
 Enhance our existing brand portfolio
 Help develop superior products in an ever-evolving consumer marketplace
Marketing, Customer Development, Research & Development Full-Time Career
Opportunities in Unilever China:
Last year, we launched a unique international program, for graduates who are fluent in Chinese- Mandarin from US
Universities, to eventually join our Marketing, Customer Development, and Research & Development functions in
our successful China business based in Shanghai.
Graduates selected for this Program will be based in our Unilever US business for the first or second
year in the program. (Marketing MTs will be based in the U.S. for two years; while Customer Development and
Research & Development MTs will be based in the U.S. for one year.) From day one, you will work on a real job
assignment to challenge and provide you with insights to the business. We will continually test and develop your
skills, building a firm foundation to kick-start your career and ensure you can make a genuine contribution.
After rotation in US, you will move to Unilever China where you will gain a deeper insight into the Chinese business.
Upon successful completion of the program, you can expect to move into a management position within the
Unilever China business. Understandably, movement into managerial role will be based on performance and is
predicated on business needs.
If you want to truly develop yourself into a top manager with unique experience in one of the most developed and
the fastest-developing markets in the world, then reach out for this opportunity and apply to the program!
Qualifications & Requirements:
1. We are looking for 2013 graduates
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Who love the pace and competitiveness of the retail market, and applying your creativity to solutions that
deliver results. Those are the sort of people who are happy to speak up and challenge the status quo.
Above all else you have strong interpersonal and analytical skills and a focus on the customer.
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Who can speak and write fluent Chinese -Mandarin, as these positions will ultimately be located in China.
2. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT APPLICANTS ONLY: Masters and PhD students in the disciplines of
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Biology, Bio-Chemistry, Measurement & Analytics, Foods
Science, Engineering Science, Process Engineering / Sciences, Packaging Engineering / Sciences, Behavior Science,
and other related majors. We offer roles across Fundamental research, formulation, packaging and go to market
activities.
3. Since graduates selected for this Program will work for the first one or two years in the US before moving to
China, we expect our hires into the Program to either:
1) Have work authorization in the U.S. OR
2) Will need to apply for and obtain a U.S. work visa (H1B, etc)
Unilever will sponsor a U.S. work visa for International students. The offer to join
this Shanghai Management Trainee Program will be subject to possessing a valid
work visa in the U.S.
3. In case, if any selected graduate is unable to obtain a US work visa, then we could extend them a
separate offer to join our Unilever China Management Trainee Program , based at Shanghai, which is a
similarly structured, prestigious and intensive program leading to managerial roles in Unilever China.
LOCATIONS:
US and China (Shanghai)
RECRUITING PROCESS AND GENERAL TIMELINE:
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Online CV Application** available beginning on September 17, 2012
Online Ability Test – starts October 1, 2012
Telephone Interviews – Starts October 9, 2012
Assessment Centre - Starts on November 22, 2012
Offers Made around late December 2012
**When applying to the Shanghai Management Trainee Program, you will be going through a Unilever authorized sourcing and
selection partner, Universum Talent Networks. By accepting the terms and conditions of the application process, you hereby
accept that Universum shares relevant information regarding you with Unilever. Universum respects the applicant’s right to
privacy. Information provided in this application will be sued by Universum in selecting applicants to continue in the interview
process.
WHERE TO APPLY:
http://smt.universumtalentnetworks.com