Ice Cream – Global HR Business Partner

Note: Deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the Job Posting End Date. 

UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR AN ICE CREAM – Global HR Business Partner

Location: Rotterdam Weena moving to Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Full-time   

Local conditions apply  

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 consider candidates based in the set locations. If you are based outside of these locations and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but at this stage we will not take your application forward. We will only consider your application if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the set locations. 

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.    

We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model.   

ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream 

 Unilever Ice Cream is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of €8 billion. All brands are driven to transform moments into memories through indulgent yet responsibly made and marketed products. We have a well-developed strategy to deliver growth and value creation which is clear on where to play and how to win. 

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025. Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered under a different ownership structure.  

We turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by designing unique and innovative Ice Cream experiences that make life taste better, creating joyful experiences. In our Ice Cream business, we’re crafting the future through innovation and imaginative minds, creating unique products. We spark moments of happiness for people and within the communities where we operate. However, it is not as simple as it may seem. As Ice Cream makers we are serious about happiness. With warm hearts, we create the coolest products.  

 JOB PURPOSE: 

The Ice Cream (IC) Global HRBP – will partner with the creative and commercial functional central teams within the Ice Cream Business Group: Chief Creative Officer and the Marketing, R&D, Consumer Insights teams. The R&D function is a vertical and will be partnered centrally by this role, whilst the other functions not only sit in the central teams but also have a large footprint in the Business Unit (BU) structure and the role is required to work in partnership with the BU HR teams while partnering the central teams directly. 

As part of the IC HR Leadership team, the role also contributes to shaping the overall people agenda for Ice Cream, leading key initiatives for the BG for higher business impact. We are a lean team that follows the principles of Flow to Work - to harness the power of the IC HR community and deliver business impact through our People Agenda. We have fun together!

The focus of our People Agenda is on:

• Activating and embedding the Re-Founding Ice Cream Strategy

• Landing the Re-Founding IC Strategy organisation blueprint (perform) and target operating model (transform) for the separation

• Building diverse teams with strong category expertise that win with hearts of consumers, customers and our people.

• Promoting a learning culture that adapts to the Ice Cream ways of working to deliver winning strategies for the business and for the people for today and the future (post separation)

• Building on the strong Culture that already exists with the new ‘’Ice Cream Way’’ culture to be launched with the company identity. And creating the new Employee Value Proposition for the Ice Cream Company.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The details below capture the expectations from the role in HR partnering at an aggregated level. However, the focus may differ between the teams based on their individual functional priorities. The key highlights of the HR partnering responsibilities are:

• Shape the central teams’ People Agenda based on the functional priorities while aligning them to the overall business priorities for Ice Cream.

• Coach senior leaders and build an impactful functional leadership team by proactively designing interventions for managing team effectiveness and performance.

• Partner the CCO, Chief R&D Officer and their leadership teams with a balance of directly partnering the Central teams and leveraging the BU HR teams to drive functional people agenda on talent, skills, organisation, and culture.

• Drive Talent to Value agenda across the functions globally, with specific support to the Functional LTs on attracting, developing, retaining senior leadership talent, building a strong internal and external pipeline and succession planning in close partnership with the regional and country HR leads.

• Use analytics and org. diagnostics to lead org. development interventions based on need e.g., reducing attrition and increasing engagement.

• Represent IC Business Group in Unilever Functional HR network aligning the functional and BG priorities for higher impact across all sites in Ice Cream, leveraging Unilever scale and consistency where appropriate. Build a community within the BG to drive talent and capability agenda for the functions.

• Own the Overheads management/ Productivity improvement and support the LTs through optimized structure for effectiveness, efficiency, speed and higher impact.

Experiences that we would find useful in the candidate:

• Strategic HR Business Partnering experience

• Systemic and strategic thinking – keen eye on the longer-term implications for the business. Grasping the larger picture on our impact on people, business, society, and ecosystems.

• Strong commercial acumen and organisational awareness as well as the ability to connect, collaborate and leverage resources for successful business growth, delivery, and impact.

• Owner’s mindset. How they have used their financial acumen, data and insights to inform their 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.

• Knowledge of how our business serves consumers and how we need to respond to changing needs and habits. 

• Bringing the outside in to create new and sustainable improvement for the business.

• Using data and insights to inform their thinking that both makes the complex simple for others, creates a sense of urgency 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

• Talent catalyst – can show how they have created an inclusive climate, empowering their teams and their business partners to be their best and building trust & credibility with business leaders

LEADERSHIP:   

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.

  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.

  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?  
  
Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!   

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus and share scheme.  

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.   

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.   

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.   

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate.  For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office , you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products. 

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.    

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).  

• Home work allowance 

• Company laptop and mobile phone 

• Green Mobility Policy 

EXCITED?  

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.  

Looking forward to meeting you!    

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.   

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.   

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.  

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