Job Title: Global HR Business Partner – Procurement
Work level: 2C
Location: Port Sunlight Office, UK
Ideal role start date: 15th May 2026

 
ROLE DESCRIPTION
This is a Global HR Business Partner position, reporting directly to HRD Procurement as part of the Global Procurement HR team supporting the Chief Procurement and the global Procurement Function in Unilever. Procurement is one of the most strategic and important teams in Unilever, and is part of the Supply Chain function, reporting to Willem Uijen, the Chief Supply Chain Officer. This team is responsible for nearly €40bn of Unilever’s spends and plays a critical role in ensuring company profitability through gross margin expansion, and best in class performance by ensuring resilience of supply to all functions of the company at a competitive price and service level. Procurement has a huge impact on Unilever’s bottom line, growth via innovations to consumers from suppliers, and social and environmental sustainable goals. It is led by the Chief Procurement Officer and has a team of over 1,400 experts based in both strategic hubs and every market in the world in support of the local business teams.
The lighthouse strategy developed by the Procurement team is designed to continue to deliver benefits at scale to the company, through a combination of in-house expertise and strategy, AI driven automation of small scale buying, and working with 3rd party service partners with scale and expertise in areas of Unilever’s tail spend. The Procurement Leadership team is a diverse team of talents, based in key strategic markets, partnering the Business Groups & Business Units, while also scaling purchasing power for key commodities across BGs, and managing strategic purchasing projects for all the Unilever functions.
This makes it a very exciting time to join the Procurement HR team when you consider the scale of change needed, opportunity to make a difference through HR capability and collaborative team you get to partner.
The position partners 2-3 UPLT members and their respective leadership teams. This role also supports the HR Director in driving and coordinating key initiatives across the UPLT (Talent Management, Organisation design, Capability and Culture transformation etc)
This role would suit someone who has HRBP experience and is good at managing Talent and organisational design projects. The person needs to be stand alone worker who can drive and implement Procurement HR agenda in the respective business partnering teams. The person needs to have the ability to flex between operational and strategic HR activities. Candidate will need to manage a wide and varied range of stakeholders in both the development and implementation of key initiatives and activities whilst developing strong business relationships. A high level of organisational awareness and a global and multi-cultural outlook is required. The candidate needs to build good relationships with local HRs to execute the agenda together.
This role offers an opportunity for an experienced HR professional to business partnering Procurement team across the globe in close cooperation with the HR BP’s in the regions.

JOB SUMMARY
• Role scope will cover partnering 2-3 Procurement VPs and their teams.
• Act as a change agent and ensures the HR delivery is aligned to the strategic goals of the Procurement Function and the business. Builds a visible, activated HR network that is aligned and deployed in Procurement and has a strong business network with Portfolio LT members, UPLT members, finance, communications, global SC peers and local HR.
• Coach and advise the respective Leadership Teams & work to define leadership agenda and build team effectiveness.
• Drive initiatives related to Univoice development areas and different team interventions such as retention programs, talent programs etc that might be required at LT and WL1+ level.
• Establish and sustain engagement and alignment within HR (with SC HR BPs, Expertise Teams, Supply Chain Academy) and all appropriate stakeholders in and outside Procurement.
• Play a key role in driving well-being, talent, career development, inclusion and gender balance across a Global team in partnership with location leadership and local contacts.
• Support transformation/restructuring projects across Procurement with a focus on simplification and cost. Works with the respective VP’s and directors to improve the productivity ratios in Procurement (FTE/Spend, FTE/turnover).
• Drive a performance & Inclusion culture through line manager coaching and develops the behaviors that differentiate performance & drives inclusive behaviors.
• Support the skills and capabilities agenda, and works closely with the Supply Chain Academy and Procurement Learning team to land initiatives in the clusters.

KEY REQUIREMENTS
• You are already a successful, forward thinking, and driven business partner and ready for a new challenge.
• Good knowledge of key HR processes and responsibilities across the entire HR lifecycle and HRBP experience.
• Go the extra mile to bring the best out of the teams in which you will participate
• Being a true team player
• Excellent communication skills/technique.
• Collaboration skills to enable working across the global organisation and with HR ‘dockers’ in other geographies.
• Ability to provide both verbal and written information clearly, succinctly, and persuasively, as well as ability to influence others
• Capacity to understand problems and issues in the context of the bigger picture and understand relationships among subcomponents. Being comfortable with bringing challenges
• Coaching and mentoring business partners
• Ability to demonstrate resilience in challenging / difficult situations, dealing with ambiguity & flexibility
• Purpose driven mindset
• Can do attitude
• Learning agility
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