Commercial Trade Assistant – Unilever Food Solutions

Join us as Commercial Trade Assistant – Unilever Food Solutions Function: Customer Development Scope: Local - Belgium Location: Brussel - CityDox Terms & Conditions: Permanent - Full-Time

JOB PURPOSE 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting Trade Account Managers/team working with Foodservice wholesalers
• Independently managing promotion planning, online content alignment, and commercial administration
• Analyzing sales performance, promotional results, forecasts, and market data, translating insights into concrete actions
• Maintaining and updating systems, reports, and commercial data
• Collaborating closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance
• Building, maintaining, and strengthening customer relationships
• Actively contributing to projects, customer activation, and market execution
• Ensuring excellent execution and high customer satisfaction together with the Account Manager

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (HBO level) in Marketing, Business Management, International Business, Commercial Economics, or similar
• Preferably around 2 years of experience in a commercial or sales support role, or relevant internship experience
• Fluency in spoken and written Dutch is a must, good French is preferred and proficiency in English is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and capable of working in a project-driven environment
• Affinity with FMCG and/or Foodservice
• Solid skills in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Self-starter, proactive, and strong communicator
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Passion for great food

Preferred Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial mindset with ambition to grow within Sales
• Energized by change and dynamic environments
• Experience with SAP is an advantage

Additional Information

Working conditions and location: Work in Brussels, Belgium with the flexibility to be based in the Netherlands but must be able to go to the office in Brussels. You will work in a hybrid setup, with three days per week in the Brussels office and remaining days flexibly. Unilever offers an environment with strong opportunities for development, entrepreneurship, and long-term career growth.

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. We will only consider your application if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the set locations. 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 alump 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideratio