Talent Partner

JOB TITLE: Talent Partner

WORK LEVEL: 1C

LOCATION: One of the following location;
- Kingston-upon-Thames, London
- Port Sunlight, Wirral

JOB PURPOSE

ABOUT HR & TALENT AT UNILEVER

At Unilever, we are working towards building a purpose-led and future-fit business. Our high-energy, forward-thinking HR team has a key role to play in making this transformation a success. The HR opportunities at Unilever are diverse; from roles in world learning factories, to supporting our global functions in London’s head-office. At our core, we believe that people with purpose thrive and so we are committed to enabling everyone at Unilever to discover their purpose and bring it to life through the work that they do.

The innovative and people-centric approach of our HR team helps to build a better business and a better world by attracting, developing and retaining the best talent. We strive to bring strategic minds to navigate the complexity of the rapidly changing world of work. We are responsible for the overall management of our workforce, most notably through organisational design, recruitment, training & development, occupational health and reward.

As all great Talent Partners know, it is important to build talent pipelines for when future roles arise. At Unilever, we are looking to do just that

Talent attraction at Unilever is in its most exciting phase yet We are flipping the script on typical ‘fixed talent’ recruitment and building flexible solutions through Open Talent Economies to be the best-in-class leaders in the field. Our Talent team is the place to be for a future focused Talent Partner who is looking to change the world of hiring.

Our Talent Partners own all talent moves within their discipline from start to finish. You will be a true business partner, using your specialist knowledge to coach the business and leveraging market intelligence, aligning talent strategy with hiring decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Supporting internal career moves through a fair, inclusive and consistent recruitment process
- Work with Employer Branding teams to develop content and driving engagement through hyper targeted campaigns.
- Constantly anticipating business needs; you'll actively approach and engage high-quality passive and active talent, building talent ecosystems that meet our current and future skill requirements.
- Building awareness of the internal and external talent landscape across a range of functions, you'll develop a holistic view of talent in your discipline. Actively engaging and building relationships with internal talent, you'll maintain awareness of where/when our people are ready for their next move.
- Continually seeking to enhance performance you'll suggest ways to improve talent quality and experience. Ensuring we always attract a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- Hire progressively, suggesting ways to achieve our pillars of diversity and inclusion throughout the talent process
- Ensuring compliance with all processes

ALL ABOUT YOU
- You are an experienced Talent Acquisition professional with a successful track record of working in internal or RPO environments
- You are experienced in partnering with senior business stakeholders and the wider HR community to gain an in-depth understanding of business needs and priorities and translating a talent strategy into execution
- You have developed and delivered end-to-end recruitment campaign strategies to meet client requirements.
- You enjoy delivering against KPIs, targets and SLAs
- You like to use data to produce value-adding business-oriented management information and reporting
- You are able to understand and comply with employment legislation affecting resources in different regions, such as GDPR.

Your Capabilities
- Understands the Business: You will take an active interest in what we do as a business and how we do it - a commercial focus and inquisitive mind are essential.
- Collaboration, Relationship Building and Influencing: Constructively questioning and influencing whilst maintaining collaborative relationships is key and constant dialogue with Hiring Managers, Business Leaders and HRBPs will come naturally.
- Client Mindset: Partnering is a huge focus for us, because it's not just what you do, but how you do it that matters. That's why it's key you’re a stimulating communicator and credible influencer who can build close relationships.
- Passion for High Performance: Maintaining high standards of performance during peaks in workload (able to easily manage up to 30 vacancies while delivering against multiple strategic sourcing initiatives and functional projects)
- Agility, Adaptability and Efficiency: Take a planned approach to working efficiently in a complex environment
- Analysing and Using Data: A data-focus approach to manage your workload and provide insight to your stakeholders.
- Digital Savvy: using best-in-class technology platforms to support the recruiting process
- Great Judgement skills: able to spot potential