“My role is all about attracting and retaining great talent into the Foods category – ensuring brand marketing is agile enough to stay in step with the world of changing consumer tastes. There’s nothing better than applying your skills to something you absolutely love.” Fiona, Global HR Business Partner.

Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Dove, Persil, Flora and PG Tips. We have the huge ambition of doubling in size and improving billions of lives through our Sustainable Living Plan. And big ideas like the Foodies Recipe talent attraction campaign are driving our business. But to achieve this, we need more outstanding people like Fiona. With over 35 brands in the UK covering foods, home, personal care and refreshments, the scale and scope of activity in HR is huge. All offer rewarding opportunities to work with great brands – taking on real challenges, making a lasting impact, and creating better futures.


ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently recruiting a HR Business Partner within our HR Services and Workplaces Services

HR Services and Workplace Services are two of the five Service Operations of Enterprise Support.
Unilever Enterprise Support (ES) is a global business unit that manages the company’s shared business services, made up of Workplace Services, Finance Transactions, IT Services, Information Management Services and HR Services.
Mission - To provide excellent services globally which enable Unilever to win in the market by

· putting the business’ goals at the heart of what we do
· leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs
· making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working
· building a professional services organisation that enables our people to give their best
· developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a HR Business Partner you will be responsible for Specific HR Business Partner focus on HR services and Workplace Services.

• Scope and deliver any organisation design and structure improvements to ensure optimal resource management together with a rigorous focus on service cost and simplificatio
• Lead key global activities for HR & Workplace Services as required centred on talent sourcing and management, reward, and capability building e.g. career path, global job evaluation
•Design and delivery of team events focussed on team development, ways or working or improving delivery across interface
•Drive a performance culture through line manager coaching in the effective use of performance management processes develop the behaviours (feedback and coaching) that differentiate performance, and through the activation of key ES approaches such as Team Update, Job posting, etc
• Coach individual business partners to effectively lead and manage their teams and drive them towards success
•Work with each business unit to accurately forecast and maintain global FTE discipline Work with HRBP network to drive global alignment and collaboration and to ensure alignment with the rest of the business

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

•HR experience, demonstrating a proven track record of delivery across organisational development and change, talent management, performance management and reward
•Ability to work with data and business information in order to support decision making, insight generation and solution development
•Ability to diagnose individual / team issues, propose and implement robust, sustainable solutions or change activities
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills facilitating the rapid establishment of constructive relationships and personal credibility
•Ability to demonstrate resilience in challenging / difficult situations.
•Coaching knowledge and skills – for individual and leadership situations
• Ability assimilate information and learn quickly
•Build relationships across ES and the Unilever HR services communities, and personal credibility to influence as an HR Business Partner

REQUIRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS

· Accountability & Responsibility
· Growth Mindset
· Consumer and Customer Focus
· Bias for Action
· Building Talent & Teams

Location: Kingston Upon Thames / North West (Wirral) 

Travel: Some international travel is required
 

• Candidate search & selection
• Candidate application process management
• Client hiring process management
• Interview management
• Offer management
• Post hire client relationship management
• Company database management
• Meeting targets and management reporting

• Previous Recruitment / HR sector experience. A Commodities background is not a pre-requisite.
• Strong learning capacity and ability to learn “on the job”
• Sales focused / Target driven
• Solid client and candidate communication / persuasion skills 
• Ability to multi task / strong organisation skills
• Disciplined, diligent and self motivated work ethic
• Project commitment /reliability
• Computer literate