Social Sustainability Assistant Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for Social Sustainability Assistant Managerbased inGrha Unilever, Indonesia

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About Unilever

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

Be a part of Unilever’s journey to become global leader in sustainability and landing a future-fit business model that drives superior performance. The Unilever Business Operations Sustainabilty Procurement team is an integral part of achieving these goals through stepping up our impact.

However, we are only half of the picture.  Our suppliers are at the heart of everything we do. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to ensure socially sustainable practices and improved working and living conditions for workers.

Our Business Operations Social Sustainability team is embarking on an exciting journey as it implements its Livelihoods strategy and program. Working with our suppliers, various expert implementation partners and international human rights experts, we will be delivering a number of interventions through suppliers, industry and communities to have a positive impact on people in our extended supply chain.

This role requires someone with a passion for social impact with previous experience, excellent stakeholder management communication skills, project delivery, attention to detail and the ability to work collaboratively in a global team. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

Main Responsibilities

In this role, you will work closely with the whole Social Sustainability team to support the management of Livelihoods programs (Living Wage, Smallholder farmer livelihoods, Human Rights). This contains various interventions into the supply chain, decided through a data-driven approach, addressing our key identified salient issues, high risk commodities and suppliers. You will be supporting the the delivery of various projects. You will work closely with Business Groups and collegues in different geographies, cross functions (e.g. Procurement, Global Sustainability Function, Responsible Business). This will be rewarding work, as you will support the impact measurement and tracking of our projects.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• Experience in program management with proven track record, with large-scale, complex projects

• Experience working on Indonesian supply chains, notably palm oil

• Previous project team management roles

• Experience engaging directly with suppliers

• On the ground social sustainability programs implementation experience, engaging with suppliers’ management as well as rightsholder, farmers communities, civil society organization and likes

• Experience working in virtual teams with a regional/global scope

Skill

Project Management:

• Support to implement and drive multi-year strategy.

• Collaborate with colleagues globally to implement projects & programs.

• Project management, progress tracking & reporting.

• Data analysis: utilize digital insights and datato support decision making, supplier segmentation, project planning and reporting, with knowledge of PowerBI preferred.

External Relationship Management:

• Ensure suppliers understand and meet Unilever’s social sustainability expectations.

• Manage relationships with implementing partners in a structured manner and ensure they deliver to expectations.

• Network externally to keep programs relevant and impactful.

Technical & Behavioral Skills:

• Understand socially responsible sourcing in supply chains, in particular in palm oil.

• Passionate about creating a better world for people in supply chains, with specific knowledge on salient human rights issue in SEA region.

• Self-starter with attention to detail and strong execution skills.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, finding creative solutions and leading initiatives.

• Strong communication skills and ability to engage cross-functional stakeholders.

• Ability to interact with diverse cultures and backgrounds.

• Fluent in English.

• Eager to collaborate and drive impact.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves.Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers.Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Note: Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. If you require any support to complete your application or any subsequent stage throughout your recruitment journey with us at Unilever, then please specify how we may be able to assist you.

Additional Information

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in Indonesia, we require you to have working rights in Indonesia. 

If you are based outside of the Indonesia and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of Indonesia. If successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.

This is an office-based role that requires 40% of time attendance to the site