Supply Chain HR Business Partner (Maydon Wharf & Phoenix)

Work Level:2B

Reports to: HR Director- SnA or HR Director-Supply Chain

Location: Maydon Wharf

Terms & Conditions: Factory site-based. Full-time

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE
The factory site supply chain HR Business Partner plays a key role in aligning the HR culture and people plan with business objectives. A key partner to leadership, providing expertise in talent management, organizational design and workforce planning. Collaborates closely with business leaders to drive performance, enhance employee engagement, capability and support a culture of continuous improvement.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Trusted partner and coach to the leaders, focused on the development and delivery of 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, the gaps and collaborating with business leaders to resource for value and build workforce plans
• Leads key change programs and the consultation processes as appropriate for any change initiatives as and when applicable
• As a member of the leadership team, accountable for and full ownership of people costs, including tradeoffs within the P&L, 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 & 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 with business partners
• 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 & Development teams.
• Team effectiveness, change & transformation, strong facilitation skills to coach and build high performing teams.
• Being accountable for development of HR Partners supporting the people agenda

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum BDegree or equivalent
• Supply chain factory experience
• 10+ years’ experience in HR, with minimum of 5 years at a senior HR management level

Skills

• 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 full business unit, it’s critical you are fluent with the P&L of Unilever, and particularly overheads, Net productivity and Sales and Operations 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 & support them fiercely
• Create a fearless space (psychologically safe, diverse, respectful) for all our teams, embedding Unilever values and behaviours

Unilever Behaviours

• Care deeply
• Focus on what counts
• Stay three steps ahead
• Deliver with excellence

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.