ICE CREAM – Investor Relations Coordinator

If you want to work for a global, leading Ice Cream player with €8.3bn Turnover in 2024, come join Unilever Ice Cream! The Ice Cream business is part of the 670 billion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Magnum, Ben &Jerry’s, Wall’s, and Cornetto. 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 the end of 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 as we build our diverse and inclusive culture. You will have ample 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.

JOB PURPOSE:

Are you a seasoned coordinator with experience in Investor Relations or a high pace environment? Do you have eye for detail and like to make sure things are running smoothly? Do you have a supportive mentality and like to be key to our new Investor Relations team? Join us as the Investor Relations Coordinator for our new Ice Cream business and be part of our journey to becoming a separately listed entity from Unilever.

The Investor Relations Coordinator will play a key role within the IR team. The  team is responsible for shaping the company's relationship with its investors, shareholders, and financial analysts. The team is entrusted with communicating the Ice Cream strategy to diverse audiences while maintaining accuracy and integrity in all financial communications. Your responsibilities will extend from providing administrative and logistic support for investor relations’s day-to-day activities and seasonal events and meetings. Organizing roadshows, handling conference attendance of the IR team and the Board, manage the investor inbox and provide support during earnings season. You will also be the lead for corporate Ice Cream events, for both IR and Communications.  

The Investor Relations Coordinator will be part of the newly build Investor Relations team, along side the Investor Relations Director, and the Investor Relations manager. This role is part of Ice Cream Finance.

Ice Cream Finance: Leading for a winning, trusted and investible global ice cream market leader

This is your chance for a ‘once in a lifetime’ career experience, playing a part in the creation of a fully independent, new Ice Cream organization, in what will be the Ultimate Pleasure Food company.

We are seizing this unique opportunity to reset the role of Ice Cream Finance. Together we will become the best and most admired finance team in the world, and we’ll do this by focusing on value creation, trailblazing future-fit financial processes and technology, and by becoming a training ground for financial craftmanship that will be the envy of everyone. 

Just imagine the benefits of working within a single category, where everyone and everything is laser-focused on the same goal, where there's opportunity to develop deep and wide understanding of the business economics and international ecosystem of a single category, and to translate that into value creation.

The role of Ice Cream Finance in this momentous moment is staggering, exciting, and dynamic, which is why we are looking for empowered and accountable decision makers who are keen to take on end-to-end responsibility.

If you are a self-starter who identifies opportunities, takes initiative, and innovates to create value, who is proactive, resourceful and comfortable with challenge and uncertainty, you will thrive with us.

In return, you will be rewarded with a rich IR role, no matter where you are in your career, and within an environment that’s both fulfilling and fun... after all, life tastes better with Ice Cream!   

In this vital role, you will:

• Provide administrative support for investor relations' day-to-day activities and seasonal events and meetings.

• Assist in organizing corporate Ice Cream events such as Investor Day, Annual Shareholder meeting, internal events, and provide assistance during budget season, attendance to conferences, and IR roadshows.

• Support the department during earnings season, including the review and distribution of earnings documents and reviewing transcripts.

• Manage the investor inbox to ensure timely responses to investor inquiries.

• Provide scheduling support and expense reporting for the IR team.

• Provide support to maintaining the company's investor relations website ensuring it contains accurate and up-to-date information.

• Provide support and assist in the various processes needed for the listing process, including preparing necessary documentation, coordinating with the various teams.

EXPERIENCE YOU SHOULD HAVE/THE QUALITIES WE LOOK FOR

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred. Or similar level of working experience.

• Minimum of >5 years of experience in investor relations, board support, or a related field. Event coordination experience is a plus.

• A true team player who values collaboration, contributes to a positive team dynamic, and is eager to develop alongside the team.

• Can-do mentality, ability to work under pressure.

• Service-oriented attitude, both inside and outside of Unilever.

• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

WHAT DOES UNILEVER OFFER/WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40%-60% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate.  For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office , you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products. 

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Home work allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.   

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you! 

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against. '

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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