Unilever is a Dutch-British transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands and London, United Kingdom. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue, and is also the world's largest producer of food spreads, such as margarine. It is Europe’s seventh most valuable company. Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies; its products are available in around 190 countries.
Unilever owns over 400 brands, but focuses on thirteen brands with sales of over one billion euros: Axe/Lynx, Dove, Omo, Becel/Flora, Heartbrand ice creams, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Lux, Magnum, Rama, Rexona, Sunsilk and Surf. It is a dual-listed company consisting of Unilever N.V., based in Rotterdam, and Unilever plc, based in London. The two companies operate as a single business, with a common board of directors. Unilever is organised into four main divisions – Foods, Refreshment (beverages and ice cream), Home Care, and Personal Care. It has research and development facilities in the United Kingdom (two), the Netherlands, China, India and the United States.
Unilever was founded in 1930 by the merger of the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and the British soapmaker Lever Brothers. During the second half of the 20th century the company increasingly diversified from being a maker of products made of oils and fats, and expanded its operations worldwide. It has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Lipton (1971), Brooke Bond (1984), Chesebrough-Ponds (1987), Best Foods (2000), Ben & Jerry's (2000), Alberto-Culver (2010), and Dollar Shave Club (2016). Unilever divested its speciality chemicals businesses to ICI in 1997. In 2015, under leadership of Paul Polman, the company gradually shifted its focus towards health and beauty brands and away from food brands showing slow growth.
Job Description
Through Unilever’s Internship program for penultimate year students, you can get up close and personal with a company that can shape your future. As an intern, have you thought about how you would position a new product in a competitive market? How you could persuade retailers to take it on, to put up new displays, to take the risk of buying lots of stock for something new and unfamiliar? What would you do?. Interns during their summer and winter vacation periods will get the opportunity to work in the Unilever SA business, in the areas of Research and Development, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance and Human Resources.
You will need to be strong and self motivation, have a passion to win and the ability to build strong relationships. Be the individual that drives the success of a mutli billion euro business...this is possible! MADE BY YOU.
Key Responsibilities
Formulation Development: Whether the product is a deodorant, shampoo or an ice cream, as a formulation technologist your role is to make the marketing idea come to life, ensuring all the sensorial properties (taste, aroma, appearance, feel, and smell) excite and delight the consumer.
Packaging Development: The battle for the “shelf” and the consumer’s attention will be won or lost through eye-catching and functional packaging. You will develop the best structural packaging design concepts for the brands, and then engineer these into workable designs using the latest technologies
Regulatory Affairs: ensures we can get Unilever’s products into the market place and keep them there by guiding project teams through country specific regulations such as advertising standards and, ultimately ensuring that we protect the consumer.
Consumer Technical Insights: The CTl role is to investigate how consumers’ ‘needs’ or ‘desires’ translate into a product. You will link the consumer to technology by commissioning product evaluation, sensory research, and consumer habit observation studies.
Processing Development (Engineering): With over three hundred factories worldwide, a vast array of process technologies are applied in order to convert raw materials into process.
Chefmanship: As an Innovation chef you will draw on your extensive knowledge of regional and global food trends; fusion of flavours; and consumer needs to bring the power of meal times to life through brilliant products that taste as good as homemade.
Nutrition and Health: Do you know that Flora margarine can help you fight your high cholesterol? As a Nutritionists in R&D you will lead the delivery of health benefits into our products as well as sound nutrition communication and marketing to consumers.
Specification Management: The specification management team within R&D is the custodian of the technical information that is stored to produce a great product. A specification details the “what” and “how” of the attributes and properties that an article must have to fulfill its purpose.
Technical Management (TM): Technical Management is the eyes and ears of the R&D organisation within each local company. In Technical Management your role will cover all R&D disciplines. Your goal will be to support the successful launch of innovations and drive entry into the markets by applying your knowledge of the associated science and technology, as well as your understanding of the regulatory and competitive landscape in your country.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement:
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| Education Backgrounds: |
Biomedical Science Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
| Specialties: |
(Bio) Chemistry Biomedical Engineering Microbiology Research (R&D) |
| Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors) Postgraduate (Masters) |
| Experience: |
0 - 2 years |
| Languages spoken: |
English |
| Job Location: | Multiple locations, Netherlands |
Type: Internship
Deadline: 16th January 2021
Job reference (ID): 18815
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