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Job Title: Personal Care Europe HR Business Partner
Location: Kingston (UK Flexible)
Work-Level: WL2C
This role is a strategic HR Business Partner, supporting two Personal Care Go-To-Market organisations, as well as playing a broader role in shaping the personal care Europe people agenda.
The role exists to shape and deliver the people and organisation agenda required to drive growth, competitiveness and transformation. The HRBP will partner closely with the leadership teams to build strong capability, maintain cost discipline, and enable organisational readiness for key strategic priorities.
A core focus of the role is to balance commercial delivery with long-term capability and organisational health, ensuring the markets are equipped to win in an evolving external environment.
Key Responsibilities / Focus Areas
1. Strategic HR Business Partnering to General Managers
• UKI Personal Care Go-To-Market organisation and Benelux Personal Care Go-To-Market organisation
• Partner the GMs and their leadership teams as a trusted advisor on all people-related matters
• Translate business strategy into clear, actionable people and organisation plans
• Lead workforce planning and organisation design to support growth and productivity
• Provide insight and challenge using people data to improve business performance
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2. Overheads & Financial Discipline
• Own delivery of overheads targets and associated savings programmes across both markets
• Drive rigorous headcount and cost management through planning, tracking, and intervention
• Partner Finance to deliver productivity and efficiency outcomes
• Embed strong organisational discipline and cost accountability across leadership teams
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3. Talent & Capability Agenda
• Own and drive the end-to-end talent strategy for UKI and Benelux PC and partner with the team on broader talent agenda
• Lead succession planning and talent pipeline development for critical roles
• Drive performance and talent outcomes through robust calibration and differentiation
• Build priority capabilities required for future growth (e.g. digital, demand generation, commercial excellence)
• Coach and develop senior leaders to build high-performing and inclusive teams
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4. Organisation & Strategic Transformation
• Lead organisational responses to key strategic initiatives (e.g. Social-First Demand Generation)
• Translate strategy into organisation design, ways of working, and capability requirements
• Lead change management and ensure effective adoption of new models
• Ensure organisation agility and readiness for evolving category and market demands
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5. Culture, Engagement & Organisation Health
• Drive a high-performance culture aligned to Unilever standards of leadership
• Lead engagement and organisational health agenda (e.g. UniVoice / Culture Index)
• Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion across both markets
• Foster a culture of simplification, accountability, and external focus
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Internal KPI’s and Dimensions
• Delivery of overheads targets and productivity commitments
• Strength and readiness of talent pipeline and succession plans
• Capability uplift in priority areas aligned to business strategy
• Successful implementation of strategic organisational changes
• Improvements in engagement and organisational health measures
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Key Interfaces
• UKI PC GM and Benelux PC GM
• PC Europe HR Team
• Finance Business Partners
• Talent, Learning and PEX teams
• Wider HR and commercial leadership community
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Key Skills & Knowledge
Key Skills
• Commercial strategy and business acumen
• Strategic HR business partnering
• Talent development and leadership coaching
• Organisation design and workforce planning
• Change management and transformation
• Data-driven decision making
Relevant Experiences
• Proven HR Business Partnering experience, ideally in a commercial or market-facing environment
• Strong track record in driving cost discipline and organisational efficiency
• Experience leading talent and capability agendas at scale
• Experience in organisation change and transformation
• Leadership team coaching and senior stakeholder engagement
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What We Offer
Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
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 are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. 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 at Unilever | Unilever.
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