Corporate Affairs Manager Central America & The Greater Caribbean

Unilever is currently hiring forCorporate Affairs Manager CARICAM (Caribbean and Central America)

Scope: CARICAM (Caribbean and Central America)

Location: El Salvador

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Foods and Ice Cream products, with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.4 billion people every day. We have 128,000 employees and generated sales of €60.8 billion in 2024.  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

Unilever operates a regional business model for the CARICAM region covering 10 countries in the Caribbean and Central Americas.  This is a corporate affairs focused role, business partnering the CARICAM General Manager and helping the regional adn brand teams to secure our local reputation and licence to operate, to ensure business continuity and to mitigate business risk.  This will include managing external partnerships, media relations and stakeholder relations.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Securing our License to Operate:  Building both long term strategic and tactical relationships, establishing local media profile, managing key external relations with Government, industry, NGOs and Trade Associations, and working with Legal and Regulatory Affairs to secure operating permits.
• Protecting our Reputation:  Strategically managing stakeholder relations and our external profile to ensure it supports delivery of our market strategy and protects us from negative attention
• Issues Management:  Media and crisis communications, disaster response, liaising with global brands and issues teams and social media responses, including establishing processes to manage social first marketing risk.

• Major Transformation:  Supporting the strategic design of major transformation programmes, identifying corporate affairs and communications support needs and leading or contracting in resource as necessary.
• Sustainability and Partnerships: Leading and advising on Government and NGO partnerships, leading or advising local sustainability programmes such as plastics and supporting any ULE involvement in sustainability events hosted in CARICAM.
• Compliance:  Ensuring CARICAM operates in line with Unilever policy and standards, that corporate communications are aligned to Unilever global positions, quality control of mandatory reporting such as listed entities and EU ESRS assurance.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Experience in managing external relations, reputational issues and corporate affairs across a portfolio of countries and operations.
• Good understanding of business processes and drivers, government relations and working with public authorities.

• Good strategic judgement to identify and prioritise key risks and opportunities and set direction in uncertain situations.
• Strong networking and institutional awareness externally and internally, calm under pressure with good relationship and teamworking skills, able to work at all levels of the organisation.
• Competent strategic planning and budgeting skills including defining work scope for, outsourcing and managing contractors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Spanish with media facing experience and able to work competently in English and concisely summarise issues and options.

Key Internal Stakeholders

The CARICAM General Manager in El Salvador and One Unilever Markets Head of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability in the UK, close working relationships with Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain and Human Resources but interfacing across all teams and markets in the CARICAM region as necessary.

Line Management

Line manager of one Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Analyst and others as assigned.

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.