Unilever is one of the world's leading FMCG companies, home to iconic brands including Dove, Vaseline, TRESemmé, Lynx, Persil, Domestos, Surf, Radox, Sure and Liquid I.V. Through products used by millions of people every day, we help improve health, wellbeing, confidence and care around the world.
Established over 100 years ago, Unilever has a proud heritage of innovation and a long-standing belief that great brands, great people and responsible business go hand in hand.
Today, we are transforming into a faster, more focused growth company centred on Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care and Home Care. Through world-class brands, cutting-edge science and technology, digital innovation and AI-enabled capabilities, we are building unmissably superior products and experiences for consumers around the world.
A career at Unilever offers the opportunity to work at global scale while helping shape the future of some of the world's most recognised brands. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, bringing curiosity, creativity and passion to solve real business challenges and make a meaningful impact every day.
As we receive a high volume of applications, please make sure to read the job descriptions on our website carefully and apply for the ONE function you are most interested in. Only your first application will be considered.
Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever’s Future Leaders (UFLs) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles.
The Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP) is a global initiative enabling Unilever to build a strong talent pipeline that will support and lead our business growth. In the UK, our UFLP is a 36-month rotational leadership development program for which we recruit top-performing undergraduate talent who demonstrate the potential to become managers within our business. It’s designed to grow you into a manager, through hands-on learning alongside world-class experts.
You’ll be hired into a function and develop your leadership skills by working on live projects which offer you all the experience you need to become ready for your first management role. At the heart of it, it’s about developing tomorrow’s leaders, today.
From Day 1, you will take on real business challenges within your own function and across the organisation. Along the way you will develop deep core professional skills and leadership skills, and build a robust support network. On top of all that, you will have a lot of fun along the journey.
We look for people who want to get to grips with the inner workings of a vast business and a desire to understand how it works. It’s about commitment, real people skills and a deep-seated interest in the business as a whole. You’ll become part of a leading-edge company, where you’ll work with outstanding brands and outstanding people to drive sustainable business growth.
We’re looking for curious, purpose‑driven graduates who are excited by how AI is evolving our data, brands and operations and who want to keep learning every day. You don’t need to be an expert yet and we welcome applicants from all degree backgrounds. However, you do need a real interest in data and analytics, a growth mindset, and the confidence to ask good questions. If you enjoy challenging the status quo, spotting patterns in data, communicating clearly, and are comfortable with ambiguity, you’ll thrive here Integrity matters to us: you’ll show good judgement, take ownership, and be comfortable balancing pace with care when the stakes are high.
You’ll complete six rotations, each lasting six months, allowing you to gain both depth and breadth of experience.
You will:
Please see further information on the Data & Analytics stream below:
In this specialised stream, you will delve into the fascinating world of Data & Analytics, collaborating on real business projects and building expertise in cutting-edge cloud and rapidly advancing AI technologies. As AI continues to evolve at extraordinary speed, ensuring our data is high quality, trusted, and ready is more important than ever. Unleashing the power of data, you'll play a pivotal role in strategic delivery, unlocking invaluable insights for our business.
At Unilever, our commitment to data democratisation empowers business users across the globe to make confident, data-driven choices. This pervasive shift facilitates informed decision-making across all aspects of our business, identifying granular growth opportunities and propelling us to outperform the market. Your journey within the program will encompass diverse experiences in data analytics, data science, data engineering, and business partnering, as you leverage and maximize the vast scale of information available at Unilever.
Day to day, you could be helping prepare our data lakehouses for AI by improving data quality, structure and accessibility, ensuring the information within them is ready to fuel advanced analytics and machine learning. You could partner with teams across the business to create meaningful dashboards, strengthen data pipelines, and analyse rich datasets to reveal insights that guide important decisions. You could be working with some of our strategic technology partners like Google and Microsoft to deliver large scale global programmes, or with niche technology start-ups and industry innovators to solve current business and sustainability challenges. Your work will directly contribute to making Unilever’s data landscape more intelligent, scalable and AI ready.
Some of the teams you could be allocated to include:
Skills you will develop include:
Please note, that at Unilever, we have development programmes, the skills below are skills that would be good to have at the beginning however you will develop them throughout the programme.
Diversity at Unilever is about championing inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. To celebrate this, we have internal networks and communities created to raise awareness for a cause, which work to create change within the business. These networks include Proud, Empower, Enable and Unity and our communities include Thriving Parents, Carers, and All Inclusion Club.
We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
We are a key advocate of well-being and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes, and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
If you do need any adjustments, please inform the Talent Acquisition team who will contact you to discuss the accessibility options available. E.g., If required extending time spent in any ‘timebound’ assessments/interviews.
We also provide accessibility options such as magnifying glass, decrease/increase the font size, change font & colour, screen ruler, and screen mask for everyone who would require them.
Please contact the Talent Acquisition team at futurecareers.recruitment@unilever.com
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