Senior HRBP Unilever

Job Title: Senior HRBP Unilever

Location: Mumbai

Unilever International (UI) is Unilever’s White Space Partner! We work across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever.
We treat the business as our own.
As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Malta, Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, Europe, China and SEAA.
As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, DiGlobal Functionsounters, E-Commerce and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.
Game changing business
SPEED is the mantra for our resounding success. To serve the underserved, we embrace a founder’s mentality, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We make a difference by working fast and smart, nurturing our tribe, winning together .

• Our vision in HR is to build a talent-focused organization that grooms CXO of the future for Unilever and to pioneer in Bespoke Talent and Organization Practices
This role is important because …
• You’ll be the HR business partner for UI South Asia, PTAB, Nali, Africa and Marketing, co-designing the Global UI HR vision and strategy & leading the execution of HR activities.
• You will partner UILT and CLF members at WL3+ and 300+ employees globally in UI
• You will be the HR Lead for UI in the BUs and the strategic key resource in the Mumbai Hub. You cultivate strong talent intimacy in the Mumbai, Dubai and Kenya hub with your teams.

As Global UI HRBP:
Talent Management:
• Co-designs & lands the glo-cal talent strategy for the business:
-Leading edge Open Talent Ecosystem strategy: Buy/Borrow fixed & flex talents from within and from external talent eco-system in line with overheads target
-Grooming intrapreneurial talent: Build/ Retain/Refresh UI like-minded talents with bespoke development plans & exceptional rewards interventions.
• Leads globally all talent cycles (DPF, APR etc) & develops insight and action plans for people related business issues and opportunities by leveraging people metrics/ dashboards
Organization & Change Management:
• Leads org re-design towards building a more agile & effective organization closer to market to unlock growth
• Leads E2E change management of key organizational initiatives across the world eg. Acquisitions, Relocations, New Business Set Ups.
Culture Development & Employee Engagement:
• Supports landing people engagement plans supporting relevant leaders leveraging the power of analytics in UniVoice
Stakeholder Management
• Builds strong relationships with HR teams in each relevant market (HRBP, HRS) & Global HR Community.
• Co-pilots together with the business leaders for each business


To be AWESOME at this, you’ll have…
• 6-8 years of HR experience
• A bachelor’s degree or higher
• Be a strategic, highly adaptable and entrepreneurial person
• Have strong track record of performance
• Have strong communication and influencing skills with key stakeholders
• Have strong talent acquisition, management and org effectiveness skills

Experience in Business Partnering
• Experience in Data Metrics
• Experience working with widely spread teams
• High bias for action, hunger for growth, flexibility and resilience
• You are known as a disruptor and change agent
• Problems excite you, challenges motivate you and failures are opportunities to develop- you have an unbeatable growth mindset
In SHORT, this role is…
• Give you a brilliant opportunity to co- lead the people agenda in a highly entrepreneurial business and leave a mark
• Be the co-pilot of true founders, protecting and serving one of Unilever Unicorns striving towards the 2Billion by 2025

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.