Unilever Future Leadership Programme - Technology UK at Unilever

Your Future Employer:

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food,Beauty and Wellbeing, 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,Hellman’s, Persil, Domestos, Marmite, Graze, Vaseline, Sure, Colman’s and Pot Noodle.   

Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market making, unmissably superior brands. From our earliest days Unilever has been at the forefront of change always striving towards making a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘Brightening everyday life for all’.

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What do we look for?

We look for motivated, self-starters with a passion for technology, business and the planet. You’llpossess strong people skills and be a proven team player. While there is no specific degree background required across any of our streams (many of our senior employees didn’t start out in technology!), a keen interest in forward-thinking innovations and technology that enables business growth is a must.

What will the programme involve?

This three-year development scheme is packed with variety and challenges designed to prepare you for your first managerial position. The scheme is composed of three streams that allow you to specialise in Technology, Cyber Security or Data & Analytics. 

Whilst on the scheme you will complete six 6-month rotations. These will be split between your chosen specialisation, enabling you to build functional depth, alongside rotations across the other two streams to build a breadth of knowledge. You may also complete an out of function rotation (e.g., in digital marketing or supply chain), enabling you to develop a more diverse set of skills and experiences outside of your chosen specialisation. Alongside your rotations you will follow an established learning roadmap designed to build your business acumen, develop commercial awareness and establish leadership potential. You will also get the opportunity to work across a variety of Unilever offices. 

Please see further information on the Technology stream below: 

In this stream you will develop broad technology expertise through a variety of rotations across our technology organisation. You’ll gain an understanding of agile methodologies and partner both global and country business teams to land technology innovations and transformations that power Unilever to win in the marketplace. You’ll gain experience across our technology experience teams, delivering cutting edge capabilities to ensure we serve our consumers, customers and employees at the highest level. This could include leveraging digital innovations such as Generative-AI to support our disruptive marketing campaigns, landing new capabilities to give our sales teams an advantage, or empowering Unilever’s people to work at their best by revolutionising the Digital Workplace in a hybrid working world. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to gain exposure to our other streams; Cyber Security and Data & Analytics, to build breadth of knowledge and experience across all that technology at Unilever has to offer.  

What could your day-to-day role include (depending on your role)? 

Throughout the programme, you will gain experience across our diverse technology organisation, designed to equip you with the necessary skills and expertise to become one of Unilever’s many senior technology leaders. You could be working with some of our strategic technology partners like Microsoft, Salesforce and SAP, to deliver large scale global programmes, or with niche technology start-ups and industry innovators to solve current business and sustainability obstacles.

Some of our positions you could be allocated to include: 

• Sustainability Enterprise Architect
• Collaboration Product Activation Lead
• UniOps Strategy Business Analyst
• Technology Business Partner

Skills required include: 

• IT service Management
• Cloud Computing
• Cyber Security 
• Digital Transformation
• Microsoft office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)