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Your role

Background & purpose of the Job

The 2025 Winter Internship introduces you to Unilever and its incredible brands through a challenging and rewarding experience that marries the business needs of the company with your learning and development. As an intern, you are assigned a key business project within a brand team to fully own for the duration of the internship (approx. 16 weeks starting early January).

As a Marketing intern, you will have the opportunity to create solutions to real business challenges for your assigned brand team. Through their projects and teams, Interns are exposed to a wide array of brand marketing activities such as:

• Development of new communication ideas
• Product development
• Market analysis
• Creation of sub-brands
• Consumer and competitor research
• Advertising or creative executions.

About you

Who you are

• You’re a born leader: You seek fresh opportunities, insist on innovation and never settle for “good enough.” You take pride in delivering work to the highest standards.
• You’re a change-maker: You know there is always a way they can improve results and you are committed to helping others see those possibilities.
• You’re a strategy guru: You love to think outside the box and imagine new possibilities for the business. You are a visionary, creating strategies to drive business growth and inspiring others along the way.
• You’re a dot connector: You can learn to navigate a big organization!
• You’re a storyteller: You use data to drive actionable insights to illustrate problem-solving and land compelling messages. You craft meaningful stories that resonate with a broad and diverse audience.
• You love to win and have fun doing it: You believe in taking the lead in the marketplace versus following. You have a positive attitude about the company's future and a passion for winning.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Currently pursuing a Business/Management/Commerce degree with a demonstrated interest in marketing and/or general management.
• Will be in your third or fourth year of university.
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a scale of 4, and 10.0 or higher on a scale of 12.
• Ability to work at the Corporate Head Office 160 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools such as PowerPoint and Excel.

The ideal candidate will need to possess strong leadership competencies, and strong team and analytical skills; strategic thinking skills; proactivity and enthusiasm for work in a fast moving, dynamic environment; the ability to communicate effectively, especially as part of a team; ability to be creative; and the ability to understand complex business issues and demonstrate consumer empathy.

Benefits

If you join as a full-time employee, you will get the following benefits:

• Competitive salary - When you join Unilever, you will start on a competitive salary and receive an annual bonus based on performance.
• Learning and development - They support everything that enables you to grow in your role and beyond – from hands-on experience to mentoring and training programs.
• Flexible working - Unilever encourages all employees to take regular leave to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Health and wellbeing - Being healthy is important to all. Where possible, they provide on-site gym facilities, regular health checks, and an extensive suite of mental health and wellbeing resources.
• Relocation and placement support - Where possible, they provide relocation support when moving placements.

Training and development 

They encourage life-long learning and support all of their employees, regardless of their role or location, to improve their current skills or develop the skills required for other roles across Unilever. They do this through: 

• Helping everyone to develop their own Future Fit Plan
• Skill and leadership development interventions designed by dedicated Learning Leads in partnership with business leaders
• Instructor-led training for groups offered in local languages, as well as access to external certifications, funded by Unilever
• Mentoring from cross-functional leaders across the business
• Skill sets utilized and further developed during the Internship are presentation skills, teamwork, leadership, analytics, strategic thinking, and building insights into action to deliver business solutions.

Sources

• careers.unilever.com/benefits-learning-wellbeing
• careers.unilever.com/unilever-future-leaders-programme 
• careers.unilever.com/NL-Internships
• youtube.com/watch?v=JucQ3l6zmKg