Global People Communications Senior Manager

Job Title: Global People Communications Senior Manager

Location: 100VE

Our goal is to help colleagues around the Unilever world to feel a sense of belonging to one global organisation by driving key initiatives that build understanding of our refreshed company strategy and to help develop a new winning culture at Unilever. If this sounds like a mission you’d love to be part of, please read on.
Based in Corporate Centre this role works very closely with both Global HR and the CEO office team, as well as our BG, functional and geography communications teams who are driving People Comms across the organisation.
The successful candidate will have a passion to inform, inspire and engage colleagues around the world. This will involve being able to influence and partner some of our most senior leaders, bring impactful innovation to our global internal and leadership communications campaigns and big moments, and help the business successfully navigate complex change as and when required.
The successful candidate will have strong commercial understanding, sound judgement, outstanding writing skills, strong appreciation of how to build employee communications outcomes (going beyond outputs) and most of all demonstrate real passion for the entire people and culture agenda.
The role requires energy, the ability to work at pace, a strong bias for action and will best suit someone who thrives on juggling multiple priorities, is able to work across team boundaries and deliver through others.
Key responsibilities

• Develop effective communication strategies and plans for initiatives that contribute to leadership development, leadership engagement and drive employee engagement. 
  • These may include but are not limited to CEO communications, CPO communications, leadership engagement, culture, values and behaviours, reward and performance, employee analytics, hybrid working, careers, talent & our employer brand.  
• Lead for best practice, measurable employee communications approaches and be a pioneer for new methods and channels
• Create and develop excellent written and visual materials to end to ensure all campaign activations are of a high quality from briefing to execution
• Set the expectations of stakeholders in a realistic, professional, and effective manner, paying close attention to the overall people communications plan and our operating principles
• Set out clear plans and measurable outcomes for each communication initiative we undertake and follow up to ensure we capture and report our achievements
• Operate in a cross-functional manner to ensure that communications are integrated, coordinated and managed across the business
• Work effectively as an integral cog in a very closeknit team, sharing ownership of key projects with colleagues to ensure seamless delivering whilst broadening skills and experience
• Collaborate effectively and be an exemplar of best practices for People Communications to support colleagues across our Comms and Corporate Affairs global community
  

Key skills and requirements

• Passionate about the people agenda in business with sound understanding of how to drive employee and leadership engagement outcomes.
• Continuously curious with pioneering spirit and a lifelong learner mindset.
• Excellent writing and audio-visual communication skills
• Strong creative vision and the ability to translate ideas into reality.
• Strong project and supplier management skills.
• Confidence, drive, and initiative – able to take and drive accountability and to deliver.
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple tasks at once, as well as flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
• Calm and resilient under pressure.
• Discrete when dealing with confidential matters.

Essential experience

• 10+ years of corporate employee communications experience.   
• A mix of large and complex listed company plus some independent consulting or agency experience. Track record of working in-house for min. 4 years is essential.

• Experience working with an extended international network
• C-Suite business partnering experience.
• Operating as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger
• Team, line and project manager leadership skills
• Budget management experience

Key interfaces

• Global Head of People Communications & the Global People Comms Team
• Global HR including the Chief People Officer and the Chief Talent, Development and Analytics Officer and their teams
• CEO and CEO Office
• Global Head of Communications & Corporate Affairs
• C&CA Global and international communications network – especially the BG, Functions and Geography teams.

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing 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.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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