Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home, and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 3.4 billion consumers daily. Founded in Port Sunlight (Wirral) in 1929 by Lord Lever, Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, TRESemmé, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze, Vaseline, Sure, Wall’s, Colman’s and Pot Noodle.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the desire for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.
What do we look for?
We look for candidates who have an appetite for supply chain. Students must have completed the penultimate year of their undergraduate degree by the time they start their placement and be returning to study after their placement.
With a strong performance culture, challenging goals, and continuous feedback, we will support you to achieve your potential in an inclusive environment. You will thrive by gaining exposure to real business challenges where your energy and fresh thinking will have an impact. First-hand experience- it’s the fastest way to learn.
Our Supply Chain Management Industrial Placements are a chance to showcase your ambition, thinking, and skills, with total support from a line manager and a buddy.
Most of our roles are based at our Port Sunlight, Leeds, and Kingston sites, and applicants must be able to relocate to any of our locations.
Some of our positions you could be allocated to include
Supply Chain Technical
- Process Engineer at our Leeds or Port Sunlight factories, working to eliminate defects, losses, and waste, and increase the stability of our production lines
Supply Chain Non-Technical
- Portfolio Procurement Assistant at our Leeds or Port Sunlight offices, collaborating and negotiating with our suppliers, whilst championing our sustainability policies
- Customer Experience Specialist at our Leeds or Kingston offices, being the face of Unilever to our customer’s supply chain, managing our interacting operation and strategy
What could your day-to-day role include (subjective to your role)?
Supply Chain is Unilever’s biggest function so there is a huge range of opportunities you could take on! Some of these include:
- Helping launch the newest Beauty and Personal care innovation.
- Helping to deliver sustainable engineering projects at one of our UK factories.
- Working in our UK/head office, ensuring our products arrive on time and in full at our customers!
Skills required include
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Partnerships
- Data Analytics and Data Science
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)
Please note, that at Unilever, we have development programmes, the skills above are skills that would be good to have at the beginning however you will develop them over the course of the 12 months.
Our application process involves
Step 1: Online Application
Complete the online application form and tell us about your motivation for choosing Unilever and your selected programme. It is a simple and easy process with the option of filling out your details using your LinkedIn profile.
Step 2: Digital Interview
If your online application is successful, you will be invited to complete a digital interview.
Step 3: Virtual Discovery Centre
You will be invited to spend a virtual day in the life with us, immersing yourself in business challenges, our Purpose Hub, and an Interview.
What can Unilever offer YOU?
- A competitive Salary of £24,787.75
- End of Placement Bonus
- Discounted Staff Shop
- Opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
- 28 days (pro rata) of holiday inclusive of bank holidays. Once you have completed 12 worked weeks, under the Agency Workers Regulation your holiday entitlement will increase to 33 days inclusive of bank holidays, pro rata for the term of this placement.
Diversity at Unilever is about championing inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. To celebrate this, we have internal networks and communities created to raise awareness for a cause, which work to create change within the business. These networks include Proud, Empower, Enable and Unity and our communities include Thriving Parents, Carers, and All Inclusion Club.
We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
We are a key advocate of well-being 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.
What support will you receive?
- A dedicated buddy to help you onboard and learn about the business.
- An experienced Line Manager to develop your knowledge and understanding across the year.
- Connections with the Graduates (UFLPs) who can share helpful tips on how to be successful at Unilever.
Do you require any adjustments in the application or assessment process?
If you do need any adjustments, please inform the Talent Acquisition team who will contact you to discuss the accessibility options available. E.g., If required extending time spent in any ‘timebound’ assessments/interviews.
*We also provide accessibility options such as magnifying glass, decrease/increase the font size, change font & colour, screen ruler, and screen mask for everyone who requires support.
Please contact the Talent Acquisition team at futurecareers.recruitment@unilever.com
To find out more about Unilever, including more information about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here.
Location
Hybrid working with at least 2 days required weekly either at the Port Sunlight (Wirral), Leeds, Burton, Crumlin, Kingston, or London Blackfriars office – subject to where you are based.
Discovery centre
Our virtual Discovery Centres will be running from the week commencing the 20th of January 2025.
Closing date
We will close our applications on the 30th of December 2024 however, if we receive enough applications for the business area before this, applications will close accordingly. We, therefore, advise you to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
If you have any questions about your application or if you require special arrangements/reasonable adjustments to be made to complete any part of the application process, please contact the Future Careers Team. If you would like to discuss any mitigating circumstances before making an application, please also contact the team using the following contact details:
Phone: 020 3650 2304 or e-mail: futurecareers.recruitment@unilever.com.
Recruitment fraud
Cybercriminals advertise fake job adverts with prestigious employers as a way of stealing information or even defrauding individuals out of money. In the most sophisticated cases, they will set up fake websites, which have a similar address to companies like Unilever. They even conduct fake telephone interviews and then offer candidates a role with the proviso they pay a fee for background checks or to cover work visa costs. These types of attacks are becoming more common as more people are looking for employment in the economic climate.
How is Unilever tackling this?
Many of Unilever’s recruitment sites publish a warning to candidates about recruitment fraud. The Cyber Security team also proactively scans for signs of people setting up fake Unilever sites and acts to close them down.
What can I do?
If you become aware of potential recruitment fraud, spot fake Unilever recruitment adverts or fake LinkedIn profiles, report them via Una Live Chat.
Unilever does not accept responsibility or liability for any candidates who are financially impacted by recruitment fraud. Your vigilance is key!
