HR Business Partner Home Care

Job Title: HR Business Partner Home Care
Work Level: WL2A
Location: 100VE
Reports to: Home Care HR Lead
Business context
We are the Home Care Business group. Since our early days of pioneering hygiene and cleanliness for all, we have grown to become a 12 billion Euro global business and home to leading household cleaning and laundry Power Brands such as Dirt Is Good, Comfort, Domestos, Sunlight and Cif. Our north star is ‘A brighter way to clean’ as we believe it is on us to make the future brighter for the billions of people we serve irrespective of where they are in the world. To spread more joy and delight, one load, one swipe, one squeeze at a time. Together let’s build a Bright Future.
Main thrust of the role
This role is a great opportunity to work in the Home Care Business Group acting as the trusted HR partner to our BG Central teams – Marketing, R&D, Consumer Insights, Finance, CD and our global Home Care Professionals business (UPro). The role is located in London, where the majority of the functional leadership teams are based.
Reporting to the HR Lead for Home Care, you will take the lead on several business-critical HR initiatives including organisation design, landing complex change programmes, talent management, succession planning and employee engagement. You will also form part of a multi-disciplinary team including members of the TLO team, People Analytics, People Experience and Reward to create an outstanding end-to-end employee experience for our teams who are mainly based in London, Port Sunlight, Bangalore, Rotterdam, and Singapore.
Key Responsibilities
• Trusted partner and coach to senior leaders in our Business Group Central teams, focused on the development and delivery of our people agenda, aligned to the business strategy.
• Setting the in-year and multi-year people priorities.
• Building deep business understanding and knowledge of the business area and strategy (internally and externally).
• Understanding the current organization design and the gaps and collaborating with business leaders to resource for value and build workforce plans.
• Lead key change programs and the consultation processes as appropriate for any change initiatives as and when applicable.
• As a member of the leadership team, be accountable for and have full ownership of people costs, including cost tradeoffs, including temporary, fixed and variable resourcing.
• Business partnering the leadership team, ensuring HR solutions and interventions are delivered on time in full.
• Working and collaborating as part of the broader HR community to leverage scale and consistency where appropriate.
• Attracting, developing and retaining talent. Leading Talent forums including succession planning and proactive sourcing for specific capabilities, domain expertise and to address talent gaps.
• Deploying the One Unilever Expertise and Innovation agenda. Also as appropriate, contributing to and supporting experimentation and new interventions with the Expertise and Innovation teams.
• Embedding the Shape Your Own Adventure principles in talent and career progression practices.
• Ensuring two-way continuous dialogue and engagement across a geographically spread team in different countries.
• Leveraging HR data insights and analytics to drive people and business decisions.
• Identify specific learning needs and deliver the relevant capability agenda and interventions, in partnership with Expertise and Innovation functional Learning and People Growth and Development teams.
• Team effectiveness, change and transformation, strong facilitation skills to coach and build high performing teams.
• Being accountable for development of HR Partners supporting the people agenda.
Key Interfaces
• HC Chief HR Officer
• HC Chief Marketing Officer and CMO Leadership Team
• HC Chief R&D Officer and RDLT
• HC Chief Financial Officer
• UPro General Manager
• Business Unit HR Leads
• HR functional partners
Skills and Experience
• Systematic and strategic thinking, being able to consider longer term implications for the business, society, and ecosystems. A deep understanding of the business and levers to pull, engaging others to prioritize and pursue opportunities that deliver significant growth for Unilever and have a positive impact on the world.
• An owner’s mindset, being able to use financial acumen, data, and insights to inform thinking that both makes the complex simple for others, creates a sense of urgency with a business edge and can show how those insights have created impact and delivered business value.
• Leading and landing transformative change, comfortable experimenting with new approaches, pushing themselves and others to achieve outstanding outcomes.
• A talent catalyst – can show how they have created an inclusive climate, empowering their teams and their business partners to be their best, building talent intimacy and successful teams and building trust and respect with business leaders.
• Understanding of agile methodologies with examples of how this has been delivered.
• Performance coaching –delivering honest and challenging team and personal feedback in a way that supports individual growth, team development and helps the business perform better.
• Business Acumen – working so closely with the business group, it’s critical you are fluent with the financials, and particularly the innovation and brand development models.
• People Leadership –identifying and nurturing talent for Unilever, through stretching developmental tasks and assignments.
• Take decisions always in the interest of Unilever (rather than individual parts), showing integrity and strength under pressure.
• Make bold decisions and support them fiercely.
• Create a fearless space (psychologically safe, diverse, respectful) for all our teams, embedding Unilever values and behaviors.

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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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