Unilever
Personal Care BG Marketing and R&D Finance Business Partner- 12 Month Secondment
🇬🇧London, England, United Kingdom6 days ago
Full TimeEN
Job title: Personal Care BG Marketing and R&D Finance Business Partner- 12 Month Secondment
Work Level: WL2C
Location: 100VE
Business Context:
BG finance partners the Business Groups across the areas of global performance management, global cost controlling, strategic investment, and innovation. Personal Care BG Finance is a diverse team located primarily out of 100VE in London.
Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Personal Care BG Brand Finance Lead, the successful candidate in this role is responsible for business partnering BG Marketing and the PC R&D Function. The candidate will play a highly visible role in supporting strategic investment decisions for R&D with the PCLT and will lead FP&A and controlling for all BG central Marketing and R&D costs, totaling ~€450m annually. The ideal candidate will need to be able to move seamlessly between more operational, short-term performance management and team leadership in the FP&A part of the role, and more strategic long-term investment thinking and senior stakeholder management in the R&D part of the role.
Main Responsibilities:
- Support the PCLT and BG Marketing and R&D stakeholders on resource allocation, investment decisions, and strategic prioritization with analysis
- Own monthly FP&A activities for PC BG central Marketing and R&D costs, including forecasting, planning, analytics, and reporting
- Lead business interventions to deliver BG Marketing and R&D plans within required targets and create investment capacity for new opportunities, including driving ZBB / Fuel for Growth
- Own and oversee the deployment of key controls on BG Marketing and R&D cost & investments
- Act as main point of contact for GCC on BG central Marketing and R&D Overheads, and with GPM on BG central Marketing BMI
- Lead the annual planning process for BG central Marketing and R&D for PC, including setting of OH and BMI targets by team
- Lead analysis and drive interventions on PC Innovation Performance and Innovation Funnel development, including managing innovation data hygiene with the PC BUs.
- Act as strategic finance partner to the PC Chief R&D Officer and the R&D function, including providing evaluation of return on different investment opportunities, recommending prioritization of investment between different capabilities and technologies and shaping the PC R&D strategy
- Managing and developing 1-2 direct report into a high-performing team
- Advocating for PC BG needs on tools and training with the FET Expertise Teams on FP&A/Cost Controlling and Innovation
Key Interfaces:
- PCLT, especially the PC Chief R&D Officer, PC Chief Marketing Officer, and the PC CFO
- PC BG Marketing and R&D Teams
- PC BG Performance Management Team
- PC BG Brand / Category Finance Leads
- BG FET Expertise Team & Global Overheads FET (part of Unilever Business Operations)
- Global Cost Controllers and Global Performance Management teams
- GCAD
Relevant Skills & Experiences Needed:
- Ability to influence a large and complex set of stakeholders for impact
- Ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, including informal ones
- Excellent prioritisation skills and ability to be agile in resource deployment
- Advanced Excel & strong Power BI skills
- Strong controlling & process excellence/optimisation skills
- Good business acumen / understanding of the Personal Care business
- Resilient and energetic in the face of challenges & frustration
- Ability to translate theoretical concepts (e.g. ROI) into practical application
- Experience in presenting and communicating with senior business leaders
- Financial planning, reporting, and analytics experience would be a clear asset
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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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NOTES
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.
Recruitment Fraud
Cyber criminals advertise fake job adverts with prestigious employers as a way of stealing information or even defrauding individuals out of money. In the most sophisticated cases, they will set up fake websites, which have a similar address to companies like Unilever. They even conduct fake telephone interviews and then offer candidates a role with the proviso they pay a fee for background checks or to cover work visa costs. These types of attacks are becoming more common as more people are looking for employment in the economic climate.
How is Unilever tackling this?
Many of Unilever’s recruitment sites publish a warning to candidates about recruitment fraud. The Cyber Security team also proactively scan for signs of people setting up fake Unilever sites and act to close them down.
What can I do?
If you become aware of potential recruitment fraud, spot fake Unilever recruitment adverts or fake LinkedIn profiles, report them via Una Live Chat.
Unilever does not accept responsibility or liability for any candidates who are financially impacted by recruitment fraud. Your vigilance is key!
