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Customer Account Executive Review

by Unilever

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Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I am an account manager within the customer development team (sales). I work with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure that shared goals are met. This includes; customer meetings, negotiating joint business plans, working on both short and long-term projects to improve our presence in store, presenting at monthly business reviews, pitching new listings, organising promotional plans, managing the P&L, and planning financial forecasts.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes: excel and IT skills, negotiation, presentation, networking, communication and problem solving


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • I was given a lot of responsibility, I was solely managing 2 accounts which gave me the opportunity to get involved in every aspect of account managing


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I received a lot of help and guidance from my manager and other members of my team, I was also appointed a buddy on the grad scheme to offer further support


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • The culture is incredible, everyone is very friendly and happy to help and there are lots of clubs/groups that you can join for extra networking outside of your team


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I loved my placement, I learnt a lot and significantly improved throughout my time at Unilever. I also met some amazing people and really enjoyed the social aspect!


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
  • Be yourself, and be eager to learn! Nobody on placement has a huge amount of experience before they join but you learn a huge amount in a very small amount of time. Sign up to as many extra activities as you can and make the most of all the social opportunities.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Sales

London

June 2025


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