Procurement Assistant Industrial Placement Review
by Unilever
Rating
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Skills
3.5
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
3.5
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Culture
2.5
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
- 7. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
Overview
Procurement Assistant Role involves speaking to supplier daily, negotiating prices, updating contracts, contributing on projects to change products, identifying saving opportunities and supporting with crisis management involving suppliers.
Skills
Negotiating skills, excel skills, saving opportunities identification, virtual working, corporate communication and numerical skills.
Responsibilities
Yes, depending on your team, your line manager you often get a lot of responsibility and trust from management to oversee your own portfolio or projects ect. You have the opportunity to make impact.
Support & Guidance
Good support from line management and team. Management is often virtual, based elsewhere in Europe, rather than support from local colleagues/ management. Central Careers team are helpful if you reach out.
Culture
Company culture and atmosphere in general is good, where people are open to help and offer support. Office culture can differ depending on location; bigger offices such as London/ Rotterdam offices seem to have more of a welcoming and buzzing atmosphere than older/ smaller offices such as Lever House. Factory environments seem to have good comradery between colleagues. Social interaction within office depends on location.
Your Impressions
Enjoyed overall very much! Opportunity to live and work in a new place, travel to other locations, visit factories and be given responsibility of a job without being in a high pressure environment. Learnt a lot about the function and about the company and its supply chain. Overall would recommend.
Yes
It's better if your team is local to your office for better social interaction and for smoother onboarding. Make the most of the opportunities to travel and go to events ect.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Procurement, Purchasing and Supply
North West
May 2023
