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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 caring product, and many more.

Your role

Preview a Unilever life before you graduate. You will have an opportunity to work on a real challenging project and experience best-in-class training and development opportunities.

Procurement Logistics role plays a critical role in ensuring Unilever's products move through their extended supply chain to meet their customer requirements. While they need to establish operational excellence to support manufacturing and customer service with on-time, full logistics services, they also have a major contribution to driving business profitability and growth.

Key responsibilities

• Involved with developing medium/long-term logistics strategies
• Manage saving projects to further enhance business profitability. This includes organizing savings workshops to collaborate with key stakeholders to identify savings. Implementing, tracking, and ensuring that these are updated in our reporting platform.
• Manage end-to-end contracting and any relevant legal documentation compliance, i.e.: Nondisclosure Agreements, Commercial Term Contracts, Purchasing Agreements, and Service Level agreements.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve payment queries:
  • Resolve pricing disputes and update in DCIW system
  • Coordinate with P2P and update vendor on the status
  • Raise urgent payment requests and follow up on approval

Training & development

Throughout the internship period, you will gain challenging yet rewarding industrial experience in a dynamic multinational corporation. What’s great, you will learn from a highly energetic team of peers, and your line managers and senior leaders will help you develop your skills and competencies in the:

• Developing medium/long-term logistics strategies
• Enhancing business profitability
• Managing end-to-end contracting and any relevant legal documentation compliance
• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders

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 meet the requirements below:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field and have a strong career interest in Supply Chain/Procurement.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good organization skills and detail-oriented.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications – able to automate worksheets and use power tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Able to commit for at least 6 to 9 months.
• 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