Unilever Future Leaders Programme

UFLP DEVELOPS TOMORROW’S LEADERS, TODAY!

This 3-year Graduate Programme is designed to prepare Unilever’s Future Leaders by giving them challenging jobs/roles that prepare them for business leadership roles. The Programme encompasses rotations within and across functions in an accelerated learning environment. This includes extended leadership contact, formal training, field sales placements and professional development.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Three ways you learn with us

During the Unilever Future Leaders Program there are three ways in which you learn with us; in practice, through our people and through formal training.

In practice: From day one you get a lot of responsibility and you work on challenging projects. You will also learn through various rotations in your discipline and international placements. This provides a broad and in-depth basis of work experience, which will contribute to your growth as a manager.

Through our people: Through the support and guidance of mentors, senior leaders and experts in your field, you as a Future Leader will have the space to develop your skills. During the UFLP you will be linked to a "buddy", a current or former trainee, who understands your development. You will receive a lot of individual coaching through these channels.

Formal: As a Future Leader (trainee) you will receive a trajectory in which you will receive a series of subject-related training courses for three years. The training is provided in-house and consists of more general training (time management, project management, leadership training, presentation skills) and training to strengthen your business acumen.

Onboarding

Unilever Future Leaders (trainees) have an extensive onboarding program, in which they start acquiring the necessary knowledge, skills and skills to fulfill their role effectively. The structured onboarding includes training, workshops, and interaction with Unilever senior leaders, at local and European level.This ensures that all Future Leaders are consistently trained and quickly integrate into Unilever; and thus make an impact on the business more quickly.

We think it is important that Future Leaders feel welcome and receive support from the organization during their transition to a challenging job. We believe this will ensure that they are successful in their role and can develop themselves more quickly.
All Future Leaders have a mandatory rotation in the "Field Force" field service in the first 2 months of their traineeship. This is intended to introduce Future Leaders to Unilever's core business early in their career, namely on the shop floor.

Rotations

Various rotations take place within the UFLP program and Unilever is known for training participants to become strong Future Leaders. A rotation is a project or role that Future Leaders will work on for a specified, predetermined period during the program. All Future Leaders will do different rotations, the duration and amount depends on the discipline, among other things.

These rotations are intended to introduce you to different facets of Unilever and to develop our candidates into broadly oriented Future Leaders. It is therefore possible to do cross-functional rotations. This provides an in-depth and solid foundation of work experience, which can contribute to the growth of the trainee to an intended Manager role after the completion of the program.

Note* Depending on your creative thoughts you could also make several blocks for ‘learning three ways/onboarding/rotations’, if you think that would look better.

UNILEVER PROVIDES TRAINEESHIPS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINES:

We accept great talents with all sorts of backgrounds, since we believe in a resume-free selection process for the UFLP. In R&D, we do require a strong technical qualification in a Chemical, Biological, Physical or Food-related Sciences and Chemical/Material Engineering-related disciplines. For Supply Chain, you will need a strong background in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing or similar engineering. We also accept Mathematics, Business, Technology, or Design-related disciplines.