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Global HR Business Partner – People Experience, Global Marketing Services & Workplace Services
Work Level: WL2C
Function: HR – Global Business Services (GBS)
Location: Global / Agnostic (with ability to work in European time zone)
About the Role
As the Global HR Business Partner for People Experience (PEX), Global Marketing Services (GMS), and Workplace Services (WPS), you will play a pivotal role in shaping how Unilever designs, delivers, and transforms employee‑centric, tech‑enabled global services. You will partner with senior global leaders across GBS to drive organisational change, build future‑fit capabilities, strengthen the employee experience, and lead end‑to‑end HR transformation programmes across three of Unilever’s most dynamic service engines.
This is a high‑impact role suited to a bold, strategic, and highly collaborative HR leader passionate about global transformation, capability building, and human‑centred design.
What You Will Lead
1. People Experience (PEX)
Lead development of the global PEX capability framework, including a future ambition for accreditation.
Shape and execute PEX’s global talent development approach, building next‑gen capability pipelines.
Partner with the VP People Experience to deliver the global PEX blueprint, ensuring design, location, and operating model principles are applied consistently across markets.
Act as a strategic partner to HR teams globally to embed People Experience transformation with a strong social responsibility and Future‑of‑Work lens.
Support hub resourcing, transition planning, employee consultation, and responsible redeployment.
Own and track key milestones and KPIs for the people implementation roadmap.
2. Global Marketing Services (GMS)
Lead the HR change and transformation agenda for GMS as it shifts into a digitally enabled, centralised, partner‑led operating model.
Partner with GMS leadership on organisational design, hub structures, role transitions, and capability mapping.
Act as the primary HR interface for global GMS leaders, ensuring alignment between functions, hubs, and transformation teams.
Drive capability-building plans (e.g., digital marketing operations, partner management, automation).
Ensure exceptional employee experience throughout organisational changes, including consultation, communication, and transition support.
Oversee governance, risk management, and milestone tracking for the transformation roadmap.
3. Workplace Services (WPS)
Partner with Workplace Services leadership to build sustainable, smart, tech‑enabled workplace environments.
Support organisation design, capability development, and role clarity across safety, sustainability, facilities management, and employee experience functions.
Lead people‑related change interventions connected to workplace and location strategy.
Drive employee experience and wellbeing improvements in workplace transformation environments.
Oversee performance tracking, workforce management, and responsible execution of transition and exit processes.
4. Cross‑Portfolio Leadership
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across PEX, GMS, WPS, and GBS.
Drive people‑data governance, ensuring high‑quality inputs (e.g., PEX Transfer Matrix improvements).
Support major global transformation programmes spanning org design, operating model evolution, and workforce shaping.
Lead talent, succession, leadership development, and culture interventions across functions.
Collaborate deeply with HRBPs, TA, Capability, Finance, ER, and Regional/Cluster HR teams.
What You Will Bring
Strong HRBP experience in large, global, matrixed organisations.
Proven expertise in transformation, change management, and organisation design.
Experience in shared services, marketing operations, digital, or workplace/facilities environments is highly desirable.
Exceptional influencing skills and stakeholder partnership across senior global teams.
Ability to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and multicultural environments with resilience and agility.
A passion for capability building, future‑ready talent, and human‑centred design.
NOTES
Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your talent card if completed.
By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.
Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner listed at the right hand side of this vacancy.
What we offer
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).
Location
In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London. This site will house some employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars together with colleagues who are currently located in Lever House in Kingston. We are excited to be creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment. The campus is due to be completed in 2026.
Relocation to the UK
Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, 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 with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.
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