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Business Development Assistant Manager Jobs in Vientiane, Laos at The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Title: Business Development Assistant Manager
Company: The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Location: Vientiane, Laos
Business Development Assistant Manager (Laos)
Scope: Full-time, permanent
Location: Vientiane, Laos
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 Asia, leading Ice Cream player with €1.2 bn 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 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.
ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream
Unilever Ice Cream is the world’s leading ice cream company, home to a portfolio of iconic brands like Magnum, Calippo, Solero, Festini, Talenti, and Yasso. We're committed to creating innovative products that bring unforgettable moments to our consumers—because, after all, “Life tastes better with ice cream.”
The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, becoming an independent, EUR 8 billion single-category focused company by the end of 2025. This move reflects our belief in the power of our unique frozen footprint, which we see as having huge potential for growth as a pure-play business. Our focus is all about unlocking that potential, driving value for our consumers, customers, employees, and shareholders.
Job Purpose
At Unilever Ice Cream, we’re committed not only to growing the business but also to developing our people through enriching experiences and impactful work. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with dynamic stakeholders and agile distributors who are instrumental in shaping our success.
As Assistant Business Development Manager, you'll play a key role in defining and elevating the fundamentals of our distributor standards—both current and future Identifying untapped opportunities and white spaces beyond day-to-day operations, exploring innovative business models to drive faster, stronger growth and ensuring strategic initiatives are locally relevant and competitive. Success in this position calls for someone who’s confident, curious, and highly skilled in data analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- DT Profitability and healthiness level of DT ROI.
- Review current and propose Setting up ideal business model. Standards structure, route to market for Unilever Ice Cream Distributor, trade term and conditions.
- Monitor, evaluate on the KPI of Distributor and Distributor team
- Analyze the results to find gaps and opportunities, be able to connect the dot and bring and lead to the discussion table with replated stakeholders.
- Come up with plans to land the possible opportunities of Distributor by reviewing Distributor manpower, infrastructure, capability also need to lead on territory management by analyzing regional sales by area along with the performance monthly monitoring on KPI of each team (monthly / Quarterly / Yearly basis)
Qualifications And Skills
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in sales/marketing or business perspective.
- Minimum 4 years working experience in similar role and/or Sales Force/Trade/Channel Marketing in FMCG Industry.
- Excellence of communication in English both written and spoken.
- Excellence of operating computer such as Excel, Data Analysis, PowerPoint, and Outlook, Power BI is a plus.
- General understanding about project management.
- Ability to work individually and being also a good team player.
- Curious and keen to learn more to improve personal and team capacity.
- Great interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Hight agility, commitment, resilience and great discipline
- Knowledge in e/d-commerce platform would be a plus.
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About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.
About
The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly part of Unilever) is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it. Here’s what defines success in our organization :
- We are all about growth
- We operate with speed and simplicity
- We win together with fun
- We boldly innovate to disrupt our industry
- We care and challenge
- We are experts in the Ice Cream Category
Additional Information
The Magnum Ice Cream Company embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position
ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?
Please apply online and do not forget to upload your CV. Your application will be reviewed against the requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date, with an update on the status of your application.
Disclaimer
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
The Magnum Ice Cream Company 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 The Magnum Ice Cream Company 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.
