Overview
Job Title: HR Lead – Unilever Fragrance House (UFH)
Location: UK Flexible – Requirement to travel to PSL at least twice a month.
Work Level: 2C
Reports to: HR Director R&D, B&W and 1UL R&D Business Partner to: Head of Unilever Fragrance House
Job Purpose
Fragrance is a critical driver of consumer preference, brand differentiation and product superiority across Unilever’s Home Care, Personal Care and Beauty & Wellbeing businesses. Unilever Fragrance House (UFH) is a global, ~100-strong, specialist capability spanning fragrance creation, science & technology and digital innovation, with hubs across the UK, India, the US, and expansion underway in China. The HR Lead for UFH is accountable for setting and delivering the end-to-end People agenda for this strategically critical global capability. Operating as a senior HR Business Partner, the role partners the UFH leadership team to ensure the organisation is designed, resourced, led and culturally enabled to deliver its next phase of scale, performance and impact. The role leads across all pillars of the People agenda, with organisation design, talent strategy, leadership effectiveness and culture as critical enablers of UFH’s ambition to become a world-class fragrance house.
Responsibilities
- People Strategy & Leadership Partnership: Shape and deliver the UFH People strategy aligned to the UFH business ambition and growth trajectory; act as the primary HR partner to the UFH Leadership Team, bringing strong judgement, challenge and insight across all people-related decisions; ensure People priorities directly enable UFH performance, capability build and long-term sustainability.
- Organisation Design & Operating Model: Lead ongoing organisation design for UFH as the capability scales globally, ensuring fit-for-purpose structures, clear accountability and effective ways of working across hubs; support the evolution of the UFH operating model to balance creative agility with enterprise discipline; partner leaders through organisation change, role evolution and operating model shifts as UFH matures.
- Talent Strategy & Capability Building: Own the UFH talent agenda, including workforce planning, critical role identification, attraction, retention and succession; design and deliver differentiated approaches for scarce, specialist populations; build leadership and succession pipelines for senior and specialist roles, ensuring continuity and depth of capability; leverage enterprise HR solutions while tailoring approaches to the unique needs of a specialist, creative R&D organisation.
- Leadership Effectiveness, Culture & Performance: Enable the UFH leadership team to build a high-performance, inclusive and engaged culture aligned to Unilever Behaviours; support leadership capability building, team effectiveness and decision-making in a complex, global environment; embed clear performance expectations, accountability and development across the organisation; act as a steward of engagement, employee experience and wellbeing across a globally dispersed population.
- Change & Transformation: Lead the people and change agenda for UFH’s next phase of growth, including new hub expansion, role scaling and capability transformation; provide hands-on change leadership, ensuring transitions are well-planned, clearly communicated and effectively landed; balance pace and ambition with employee experience and organisational sustainability.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and pension scheme; annual bonus; subsidised gym membership; discounted staff shop and shares.
- Flexible and hybrid working environment with opportunities to discuss flexible working options.
- Wellbeing support through hubs, programmes and development opportunities; commitment to a family-friendly and inclusive workplace.
- Diversity and Inclusion: we embrace diversity and provide reasonable adjustments during application and interview processes where needed.
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever information available on the company site.
Notes: Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We are one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies with amazing brands, dynamic people and a sustainable vision.
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