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About Unilever Malaysia

Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England, and is the world's largest soap manufacturer where its products are available in around 190 countries. Its products include food, cleaning agents, toothpaste, consumer health products, tea, beauty products, personal care products, and many more.

Your role

Procurement at Unilever is about optimizing the cost and quality of what we buy through the intelligent sourcing of materials, packaging, and non-production items. The team explores new ways of working with suppliers and plays an important role in technology innovation and driving sustainability through procurement.

Job description

• Maintain Purchase Information Record database for raw and pack materials across Unilever business divisions to feed into term prices with collaborative manufacturers.
• Coordinate and prepare new quarter transfer price.
• Full involvement in contract life cycle management – end-to-end contract management and creation in the system – for on-time in full contracting.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve payment queries.
• Resolve pricing dispute and update in Data Capture Image Workflow (DCIW) system
• Coordinate with the Purchase to Pay team and update the vendor on the status
• Raise urgent payment requests and follow up on approval
• Reconcile Product Price Variance

Training & development

Throughout the internship period, you will gain challenging yet rewarding industrial experience in a dynamic multinational corporation. You will be involved in 50% business and operations and 50% digitalization.  What’s great, it is a way for you to experience and learn from a highly energetic team of your peers, your inspiring line managers, and senior leaders who will help you develop your skills and competencies for your growth. The internship will help you to develop your profession, nurture leadership skills, ability to manage multiple stakeholders from different cross-functions, and manage multiple brands in a category.

Benefits

Aside from an attractive salary for an intern, by joining this internship, you will also get the following benefits:

• Experience best-in-class training and development opportunities
• Gain challenging yet rewarding industrial experience in a dynamic multinational corporation
• Learn from a highly energetic team your peers, your line managers, and senior leaders
• Develop your skills and competencies.

Career progression

Unilever may not mention what path you'll be on after finishing this internship. However, having internship experience in a global company like Unilever will add more value to your CV and ease the next step in your career especially if you want to pursue a career in the FMCG industry.

Work-life balance

The regular office working hours start at 9:00 am and end at 06:00 pm, from Monday to Friday. Some employees who left online reviews even state that Unilever let them have flexible work hours to opt for WFH or WFO.

Company culture

Unilever wants a world in which everyone is treated equally. The business is aware that its basis must be an equal workplace that values each and accords them with the freedom and chance to reach their full potential. Meanwhile, based on online reviews, most employees of Unilever Malaysia rate this company highly, stating that the company is a great place to work. You can expect to have a helpful team, friendly colleagues, and a good working environment when you work at Unilever.

About you

To join this internship program, you need to have the qualifications below:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field and have a background in Supply Chain and Digitalization/Digital Solutions/Programming/Data Analytics.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good organization skills and detail-oriented.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications – MS Excel, able to automate worksheets and use power tools (e.g. Power BI).
• Able to commit for at least 6 months, available to start in June/July 2024.
• Early graduates who are seeking internship experience.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• careers.unilever.com
• jobstreet.com.my/en/companies/440080-unilever-malaysia-holdings
• glassdoor.com/Reviews/Unilever-Malaysia-Reviews-EI_IE3513.0,8_IL.9,17_IN170.htm