HR Business Partnering - Personal Care BG bei Unilever

Business context 

We are Unilever Personal Care. We Make Winning Personal. 

Personal Care is home to some of the world’s most iconic and purpose-driven brands—from Dove and Lifebuoy to Rexona and Axe. Our mission is to deliver superior products that enrich everyday lives, while driving innovation, sustainability, and cultural relevance. With a bold ambition to lead in premiumisation, product superiority, and market development, we operate as a unified, winning team, committed to shaping the future of personal care through creativity, agility, and impact.  

Introducing the role 

Working within the Personal Care Global BG HR team, this is a stretching and varied role, which blends business partnering with strategic HR projects across Unilever’s biggest Business Group. The role of HR Partner Personal Care is varied and challenging in nature. The role is designed to stretch HRBP capabilities, working closely with key Categories to unlock talent, design and implement transformation programmes, embed new and future WoW as well as coaching and developing our Global teams.  

You will also be responsible for leading cross-functional projects, aligned to our ‘Make it Personal’ people strategy. With Marketing as your main stakeholder, you will be at the forefront of Marketing Transformation, including Social First Demand Generation. This role will also work across all functions from time to time, supporting the PC leadership team with HR talent and culture initiatives.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Working with Personal Care HR Directors, partnering key client groups across the Business Group (Marketing, CMI, Media)  

• Lead key people processes - reward review, talent management, people development forums etc  

• Lead a transformative agenda in building future capability through cross-divisional, multi-functional teams including the expansion of Marketing Transformation initiatives.  

• Lead development and deployment of our PC Marketing People Strategy including career development interventions and increasing employee engagement  

• Lead Organisation Design including WFP for PC BG Central  

• Leads WL1-3 Talent to Value Strategy for Global Marketing  

• Dock into Business Unit HR Leads as needed   

• Coaching and development Senior Leadership 

• Work closely with broader HR network (People Partners, Data Specialists, Talent Partners, Reward, Global Mobility) to land initiatives with impact and manage challenges as needed 

• Work closely with the PC HR team to create and implement solutions to our biggest challenges. 

Key Interfaces 

• HR Lead Personal Care BG Marketing and GMO  

• PC Marketing Global Marketing Leads 

• PC Chief HR Officer 

• PC Chief Marketing Officer and CMO Leadership Team 

• Head of Integrated Brand Experiences 

• Business Unit HR Leads 

• HR functional partners 

Skills and Experience 

• HR experience, demonstrating a proven track record of delivery across organisational development and change, talent management, performance management and reward  

• Comfortable working autonomously and dealing with ambiguity  

• Have the adaptability and resilience to balance short-term and long-term priorities  

• Strong relationship building skills and a flexibility of approach to coach and become a trusted partner to multiple VPs and their teams 

• Strong networking skills, able to deliver through others, working through HR colleagues across the globe  

• Able to use data and insight to unlock new opportunities that generate value  

• Customer focus and proactive to self-start on various issues 

• A change agent who can support transformation of both organisation and culture 

• Self-aware, and focussed on their own development 

Additional Information  

• This role will be based at 100VE 

• Some travel to other UL sites within the geography will be required

Location 

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London. This site will house some employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars together with colleagues who are currently located in Lever House in Kingston. We are excited to be creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment. The campus is due to be completed in 2026.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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