Talent Acquisition Global Innovation Specialist

Join us as Talent Acquisition Global Innovation Specialist!

Function: People Experience / Talent Acquisition
Reports to: Global Talent Acquisition Process Owner
Scope: Global
Location: Manila

JOB PURPOSE
This role exists to shape and accelerate innovation across Global Talent Acquisition, transforming how Unilever attracts, assesses, and hires talent at scale.

You will identify opportunities, test emerging technologies, and turn successful ideas into scalable solutions—improving hiring quality, speed, efficiency, and experience globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & Opportunity Identification

• Support the Global Talent Acquisition Innovation agenda by identifying opportunities where technology, data, and AI can improve hiring outcomes and experiences.
• Stay close to emerging trends, vendors, and digital solutions across the recruitment and HR technology landscape.

Experimentation & Product Delivery

• Lead proof of concepts and pilots end to end, from problem framing and solution design through testing, evaluation, and deployment.
• Apply a product mindset to innovation, balancing user experience, value creation, scalability, compliance, and cost.

Partnership & Ecosystem

• Partner closely with HR, Talent, Global Process Owners, and cross functional teams to ensure innovation aligns to business priorities.
• Build strong external relationships with technology partners, start ups, innovation networks, and industry peers.

Measurement & Enablement

• Define clear success criteria and use data and analytics to measure impact and inform decision making.
• Act as a visible ambassador for innovation within the Talent Acquisition community, building capability, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindsets.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong curiosity about how technology and AI can improve recruitment and talent decisions
• Experience working within Talent Acquisition (e.g., recruiting, sourcing, or TA operations)
• Solid understanding of recruitment technology ecosystems (ATS, CRM, sourcing channels)
• Comfortable operating in complex, global, matrixed organisations
• Strong communication, influencing and storytelling skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience applying human centred design or product thinking
• Exposure to recruitment operations or service delivery models
• Experience working with external vendors, start ups and/or innovation partnerships
• Track record of delivering technology change, pilots, or process redesigns

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

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.