Ice Cream Establishment Program France Lead (H/F)

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Location: Rueil-Malmaison, France

If you are in the Unilever Ice Cream business or consider choosing to work for the Unilever Ice Cream business, you will work for the Global, leading Ice Cream player with €7.9bn Turn Over in 2023. The Ice Cream business is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall’s, Magnum, Ben &Jerry’s. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025.

Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered under a different ownership structure. As Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent within our Ice Cream company. You will have ample options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

Unilever Ice Cream is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of over $8 billion. All brands are driven to transform moments into memories through indulgent yet responsibly made and marketed products. We have a well-developed strategy to deliver growth and value creation which is clear on where to play and how to win.

We turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by designing unique and innovative Ice Cream experiences that make life taste better, creating joyful experiences. In our Ice Cream business, we’re crafting the future through innovation and imaginative minds, creating unique products. We spark moments of happiness for people and within the communities where we operate. However, it is not as simple as it may seem. As Ice Cream makers we are serious about happiness. With warm hearts, we create the coolest products.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

General tasks :

• Act as a single point of contact for the project in a market for all cross functional queries that are not managed directly in a workstream and cascading any information provided by global to the relevant country teams

• Attend regular workstream meetings with the global leads - normally finance & GtM functional meetings

• Ensure that all data requests and activities are performed and implemented locally from the various works streams - mainly Finance & GtM will have local requests

• Work with the local UL teams to ensure that all local reporting needs are met either through centrally provided reporting or local reporting i.e daily sales report

• Understand how the S&OP process will work locally E2E and align with global IC team and locally with the UL team to ensure the process works robustly and is well understood and embedded in IC

• Determine requirements for local TSA services required from UL for the specific market i.e. for shared CD resources UL OOH team continuing to take orders from OOH customers until IC establish a full org

• Act as a point of escalations for issues with TSA delivery i.e. manager issues locally before it gets escalated globally

• Agreement of pass through costs across all functions that are shared 3rd party cost incurred in UL but a share of costs need to be charged to IC i.e share of Nielsen/Kantar costs if IC do not have their own contract from day 0

GTM Activities :

• Co-ordination of comms to customers - letter/email to customers informing them of the change of ownership - GtM lead activity

• Work with GtM on seperation activities like seperating any shared contracts and recruiting into new org - possibly light if this activity is already kicked off and being led by the existing market GM

• GtM seperation of contracts with customers to move to IC dedicated contracts only

• Work with the local O2C team to ensure IC billing and flows continue smoothly at Day 0 i.e. reviewing the Product Pricing Hierarchy to ensure IC is seperate so that rebates are held seperately and rebate and balance sheet reviews can be handled seperately

• Help design and embed new O2C governance process for IC rebate and invoice approvals and rebate/balance sheet reviews

• Establish any new distributor markets - will need to oversee the transition to the distributor and work with both central GTM teams & the people assigned to manage the distributor

• Work with local OOH team to ensure transfer of assets is done in time (e.g cabinets)

Finance Activities :

• Facilitate sign-off of key M&A inputs, e.g Business Plan, Carve-out financials, standalone design, value creation, pro-forma financials - very finance lead activity with GM for performance review

• Review and sign off of D0/D1 operating model and accounting flows implementation with key local stakeholders - Finance and GM activity - critical to ensure all flows are captured i.e. especially cross board flows

• Support KPMG audit activities - extremely onerous and fully finance activity

• Help set up IC rebate reviews in a seperate process

• Help the IC finance team embed new processes and responsabilities relating to OC legal entity P&L monthly sign off and balance sheet review processes

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors :

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

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.