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What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for curious, purpose‑driven graduates who are excited by how AI is evolving our data, brands and operations and who want to keep learning every day. You don’t need to be an expert yet and we welcome applicants from all degree backgrounds. However, you do need a real interest in data and analytics, a growth mindset, and the confidence to ask good questions. If you enjoy challenging the status quo, spotting patterns in data, communicating clearly, and are comfortable with ambiguity, you’ll thrive here Integrity matters to us: you’ll show good judgement, take ownership, and be comfortable balancing pace with care when the stakes are high.
What will the programme involve?
You’ll complete six rotations, each lasting six months, allowing you to gain both depth and breadth of experience.
You will:
- Participate in a leadership development programme designed to accelerate your growth and prepare you to become one of Unilever’s future leaders.
- Specialise in Technology or Cyber Security or Data & Analytics
- Complete rotations within your chosen area to build core expertise
- May have the opportunity to work outside your chosen track (e.g. marketing, supply chain, customer development)
- Be flexible on the scheme and work across offices in Kingston upon Thames, London and Port Sunlight (near Liverpool) depending on the rotation
- Be supported with a dedicated mentor, who is an expert in your chosen stream and will guide you throughout the programme.
- Shape the scheme through our graduate-led pillars, such as wellbeing, learning and development and placement success. These pillars are run by current graduates and play a key role in shaping the UFLP experience.
Please see further information on the Data & Analytics stream below:
In this specialized stream, you will delve into the fascinating world of Data & Analytics, collaborating on real business projects and building expertise in cutting-edge cloud and rapidly advancing AI technologies. As AI continues to evolve at extraordinary speed, ensuring our data is high quality, trusted, and ready is more important than ever. Unleashing the power of data, you'll play a pivotal role in strategic delivery, unlocking invaluable insights for our business.
At Unilever, our commitment to data democratization empowers business users across the globe to make confident, data-driven choices. This pervasive shift facilitates informed decision-making across all aspects of our business, identifying granular growth opportunities and propelling us to outperform the market. Your journey within the program will encompass diverse experiences in data analytics, data science, data engineering, and business partnering, as you leverage and maximize the vast scale of information available at Unilever.
What could your day-to-day-role look like?
Day to day, you could be helping prepare our data lakehouses for AI by improving data quality, structure and accessibility, ensuring the information within them is ready to fuel advanced analytics and machine learning. You could partner with teams across the business to create meaningful dashboards, strengthen data pipelines, and analyse rich datasets to reveal insights that guide important decisions. You could be working with some of our strategic technology partners like Google and Microsoft to deliver large scale global programmes, or with niche technology start-ups and industry innovators to solve current business and sustainability challenges. Your work will directly contribute to making Unilever’s data landscape more intelligent, scalable and AI ready.
Some of the teams you could be allocated to include:
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence Team
- Data Strategy Team
- Cross-operations
- Data & AI Change Management
Skills required include:
- Curiosity about AI
- Foundational cloud computing awareness
- Interest in statistics
- Basic programming knowledge
Please note, that at Unilever, we have development programmes, the skills below are skills that would be good to have at the beginning however you will develop them throughout the programme.
- Stakeholder Analysis / Management / Business Partnering
- Product Management
- Systems Thinking
- Artificial Intelligence
- Risk Management
- Project Management / Agile Delivery
- Change Management & Activation
- Strategic Thinking
- Third Party Management
Our application process involves:
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Step 1: Online Application
Complete the online application form. It is a simple and easy application process with the option of filling out your details using your LinkedIn profile. You may apply to one function in your application.
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Step 2: Profile Assessment
Complete two stages of profile assessment; a portrait personality test and an online assessment. These are designed to look at different elements of your cognitive, emotional, and social traits. You will receive personalised feedback after completing each stage.
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Step 3: Digital Interview
The digital interview will consist of 3 short questions followed by a business case. You will be asked to solve real-world problems using Unilever scenarios. You’ll be able to record and complete your interview anytime and anywhere.
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Please note, we do not use AI as a screening tool in our recruitment process therefore, your digital interview submission will be reviewed by a real person. -
Step 4: Discovery Centre
Ahead of the Discovery Centre, you will be invited to complete a short online assessment via Alooba, designed to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your technical capabilities.
You will then be invited to a ‘day in the life’ of a Future Leader at Unilever. You will get to experience a face-to-face day filled with several exciting activities including project meetings, business challenges, a team meeting with Unilever colleagues, and an interview.
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