About Unilever
Unilever 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. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.
Main Job Purpose:
The role provides finance leadership across a portfolio of Modern Trade customers and channels, partnering closely with Customer Development teams to drive growth, profitability, and investment effectiveness. The incumbent leads performance management and commercial decision support for complex business priorities while ensuring strong governance over customer investments and trade spend.
The role is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, independently leading key business discussions, shaping recommendations, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be:
Drive Performance Management and Financial Stewardship of CD Spends
Lead performance management for assigned channels and customer portfolios, ensuring delivery of financial commitments.
Own financial forecasting, budget management, risk identification, and action planning.
Challenge assumptions and drive interventions to address gaps versus plan.
Ensure strong governance and compliance with customer agreements and investment framework.
Lead Business Partnering on Strategic Priorities
Mastery of financial impact of TTA per customer for the assigned channels and customers
Serve as the lead finance partner for priority customer initiatives.
Lead financial evaluation of customer negotiations, investment proposals, and contract changes.
Influence commercial decisions through actionable insights and clear recommendations.
Partner with senior stakeholders to balance growth ambitions and profitability objectives.
Drive Performance Improvement
Identify and lead initiatives to improve customer profitability and investment ROI
Lead CD finance in cross-functional problem-solving on emerging business risks and opportunities.
Champion continuous improvement in financial analysis, reporting, and decision-making processes.
What Success in This Role Looks Like:
Acts as a trusted finance advisor to customer and channel leadership.
Independently manages complex commercial decisions and business interventions.
Delivers high-quality analyses and recommendations that influence business outcomes.
Coaches others and elevates overall team capability.
Creates capacity for the CD Finance Lead by owning larger customer portfolios and more complex business issues.
Experiences & Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
At least 7+ years of experience in Finance
Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex analyses and business discussions.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Experience coaching team members or leading cross-functional projects preferred.
Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability, and bias for action.
Comfortable managing multiple customers and priorities in a fast-paced, lean environment
Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates 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.
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.
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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.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in Finance
- Basic knowledge of Management Accounting, Reporting, and Budgeting
- Experience in business partnering roles
- Commercial and decision support experience including financial models and ROI analysis
- Ability to work independently translating high-level guidance into structured outputs
- Ability to manage multiple customers and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in investment evaluation, analysis and KPI tracking
- Strong analytical capabilities with bias to drive action
- Advanced skills in Excel
Unilever Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unilever and has not been reviewed or approved by Unilever.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and occupational health support alongside a 24/7 employee assistance program. Wellbeing offerings such as health checks, resilience tools, and counseling support the perceived depth of health-related benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) match that reaches up to 5% of base salary, strengthening the overall value of the package. Share and savings options are also referenced as part of longer-term financial support beyond salary.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits customization is enabled through tools such as a “My Reward” system and a “Benefits Envelope” that allows employees to personalize selections. Flexible working approaches are also associated with improved overall satisfaction, reinforcing perceived choice and adaptability in the total rewards offering.
Unilever Insights
What We Do
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Dermalogica. Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.
