Function: Customer Development
Scope: Local - Belgium
Location: Brussel - CityDox
Terms & Conditions: Permanent – Full-Time
As Commercial Trade Assistant, you are, together with your colleagues, the first point of contact for our wholesale partners. You work closely with key players such as Sligro, Bidfood, Solucious and Hanos. By deeply understanding their businesses, you proactively identify opportunities and contribute to sustainable partnerships and mutual growth.
This is a versatile internal sales role with extensive internal and external interaction, offering strong development opportunities and real commercial impact.
Within Customer Development, we are looking for a Commercial Trade Assistant for Unilever Food Solutions.
In this role, you support and strengthen Trade Account Managers within the Foodservice channel and are jointly responsible for the commercial success of our brands Knorr and Hellmann’s. Together, you represent Unilever Food Solutions towards customers and actively contribute to revenue growth, promotional execution, data-driven insights, and effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
You connect analysis with action and thrive in a dynamic environment where multiple customers, projects, and disciplines come together. No two days are the same.
Always include your CV in French or English. If the job needs another language, you can also additionally add your CV in that language.
Earlier this year (March 2026), Unilever announced an agreement to separate our Foods business. Our Foods business, including brands such as Hellmann's and Knorr, will join forces with McCormick to become a global flavour leader, with leading positions across spices, seasonings, condiments and complementary food categories, supported by a strong retail and foodservice platform. McCormick has 135+ years of heritage, a presence in 150+ countries and territories, and a portfolio of trusted brands. The transaction remains subject to consultation, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions with a targeted deal close of mid-2027.
For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will consider candidates based on the set locations. If you are based outside of these locations and you are interested in applying, please feel free to do so but at this stage we will not take your application forward. We will only consider your application if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the set locations. Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the BeNeLux (Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg), while location of the role is within the BeNeLux, if successful, your internal application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. You will be eligible for relocation support in the form of economy-class flights (to NL), immigration support (if applicable), tax support (in the year of move) and a lump sum of 7.500, - euro net of taxes to be paid out during the first salary payment in the Netherlands. No further relocation support will be provided in a self-initiated CLOC.
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Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever 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.
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