Supply Chain HR Business Partner (Maydon Wharf & Phoenix) at Unilever

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