Supply Chain HR Business Partner

**Function**:Human Resources

**Work Level**: 2B

**Reports to**: HR Director
- SnA or HR Director-Supply Chain

**Location**:Maydon Wharf

**Terms & Conditions**: Factory site-based. Full-time

**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**
The factory site supply chain HR Business Partner plays a key role in aligning the HR culture and people plan with business objectives. A key partner to leadership, providing expertise in talent management, organizational design and workforce planning. Collaborates closely with business leaders to drive performance, enhance employee engagement, capability and support a culture of continuous improvement.

**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**
- Trusted partner and coach to the leaders, focused on the development and delivery of people agenda aligned to the business strategy
- Setting the in-year and multi-year people priorities.
- Building deep business understanding and knowledge of the business area and strategy (internally and externally).
- Understanding the current organization design, the gaps and collaborating with business leaders to resource for value and build workforce plans
- Leads key change programs and the consultation processes as appropriate for any change initiatives as and when applicable
- As a member of the leadership team, accountable for and full ownership of people costs, including tradeoffs within the P&L, including temporary, fixed and variable resourcing.
- Business partnering the leadership team, ensuring HR solutions and interventions are delivered on time in full.
- Working and collaborating as part of the broader HR community to leverage scale and consistency where appropriate.
- Attracting, developing and retaining talent. Leading Talent forums including succession planning and proactive sourcing for specific capabilities, domain expertise and to address talent gaps.
- Deploying the One Unilever Expertise & Innovation agenda. Also as appropriate, contributing to and supporting experimentation and new interventions with the Expertise and Innovation teams
- Embedding the Shape Your Own Adventure principles in talent and career progression practices
- Ensuring two-way continuous dialogue and engagement with business partners
- Leveraging HR data insights and analytics to drive people and business decisions.
- Identify specific learning needs and deliver the relevant capability agenda and interventions, in partnership with Expertise and Innovation functional Learning and People Growth & Development teams.
- Team effectiveness, change & transformation, strong facilitation skills to coach and build high performing teams.
- Being accountable for development of HR Partners supporting the people agenda

**Qualifications & Experience**
- Minimum BDegree or equivalent
- Supply chain factory experience
- 10+ years’ experience in HR, with minimum of 5 years at a senior HR management level

**Skills**
- ** Systematic and strategic thinking**, being able to consider longer term implications for the business, society, and ecosystems. A deep understanding of the business and levers to pull, engaging others to prioritize and pursue opportunities that deliver significant growth for Unilever and have a positive impact on the world.
- ** An owner’s mindset**, being able to use financial acumen, data, and insights to inform 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.
- ** Leading and landing transformative change**, comfortable experimenting with new approaches, pushing themselves and others to achieve outstanding outcomes.
- ** A talent catalyst** - can show how they have created an inclusive climate, empowering their teams and their business partners to be their best, building talent intimacy and successful teams and building trust and respect with business leaders.
- Understanding of **agile methodologies** with examples of how this has been delivered.
- ** Performance coaching** -delivering honest and challenging team and personal feedback in a way that supports individual growth, team development and helps the business perform better.
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