Unilever |

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, and Home Care products, with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.7 billion people every day. For more than a century, Unilever has been a pioneer, creating great brands and products which improve everyday life for people all over the world.

The UK is one of Unilever’s biggest markets, with an annual turnover of around £1.7 billion. We have around 5,000 UK-based employees, who work at sites across the regions, responsible for some of the nation’s most loved brands, including Dove, Vaseline, Persil, Domestos, Comfort, Sure, Lynx, and Liquid I.V. found in over 95% of UK homes.

We’re proud to lead the way, but it’s our people who make it all happen. Bright, curious, and driven, they imagine what’s next and bring it to life. A career at Unilever offers opportunity at scale. From the next big thing on the supermarket shelf to breakthrough innovations transforming our business, you’ll be part of creating products and experiences that people love, all over the world.

Whether you’re in school, college, university, or have recently graduated, we offer a range of programmes that will get you ready for the world of work. We care deeply about nurturing your talent to get the very best out of our people - for you and for us. We’ll give you space to shine and to pioneer change through your ideas. You’ll also be part of an amazing team that works on some of the biggest brands in the world, an impressive set of peers and leaders who will inspire you, motivate you, and support you in becoming brilliant at what you do.

At Unilever, you can grow, belong, and make a real impact.

We are working to build a better business and a better world. We can only achieve this purpose when our people are at their best – which is why our flexible rewards and benefits are designed to support you and your development.

We are committed to giving our employees a healthy work-life balance, so we offer a flexible working style where possible including hybrid working in order to ensure our employees remain happy and healthy. In addition to flexible working, we offer an array of mental health resources along with regular health checks as we believe that our mental health is just as important as our physical health.

We offer an array of benefits packages which vary across our graduate, placement and apprenticeship schemes. These include competitive salaries, end of scheme bonuses, on site gyms, discounted staff shops and much more

Click on the job you are interested in applying for to read the job description and find out the specifics around exactly what rewards & benefits we offer!

Not only do we want to get to know the real you, but you also need to decide if we are the right for you! In order to do this, we have created an application process which will allow you to understand more about us and how we work as a business and for us to see if you are the right fit for our business.

If you are applying for our Industrial Placement, we have a 5-step application process detailed below.

Stage 1 – Online Application & IP Simulation

Complete an online application form before completing our interactive IP simulation, designed to give you insight into our organisation and the programme you’re applying for. This will prepare you for a series of situational judgement questions based on realistic business scenarios.

Stage 2 – Online Assessments.

Complete a numerical reasoning assessment, an online test that measures your ability to interpret and draw conclusions from numerical data and verbal Reasoning assessment an online test that measures your ability to understand and evaluate written information.

Stage 3 – Digital Interview  

Complete a video interview.  

*Please note, we do not use AI as a screening tool in our recruitment process therefore, your digital interview submission will be reviewed by a real person*

Stage 4 – Pre-Screening Interview

Attend a virtual pre-screening interview with a member of our recruitment team.  

Stage 5 – In-Person Discovery Centre  

Attend an in-person discovery centre alongside fellow candidates. This will give you the opportunity to visit a Unilever office, meet and interview with business leaders, and work on function-related business challenges.

If you are applying for our UFLP programme, we have a 4-step application process detailed below.

Step 1: Online Application

Complete the online application form and tell us about your motivation for choosing Unilever and your selected programme. It is a simple and easy process with the option of filling out your details using your LinkedIn profile. You may only apply to one function in your application. 

Step 2: Profile Assessment

Complete two stages of profile assessment; a portrait personality test and an online assessment. These are designed to look at different elements of your cognitive, emotional, and social traits. You will receive personalised feedback after completing each stage. 

Step 3: Digital Interview

The Digital Interview will consist of 3 short questions followed by a business case. You will be asked to solve real-world problems using Unilever Scenarios. You’ll be able to record and complete your interview anytime and anywhere. 

Step 4: In-Person Discovery Centre

You will be invited to a ‘day in the life’ of a Future Leader at Unilever. You will get to experience a face-to-face day filled with several exciting activities including project meetings, business challenges, and a team meeting with Unilever Colleagues.

Culture:

Here at Unilever, we acknowledge that everyone is unique in their own way, bringing their own set of personalised characteristics and traits to the job. We encourage all our employees to seek individuality, share their passions with others and bring the best version of themselves to work every day. At Unilever, we believe that to champion our business we must champion an environment for our employees that strives for equity, diversion, and inclusion therefore, if you join Unilever, you will have an array of opportunities to get involved in all our supporting networks!

Values:

We expect everyone at Unilever to be champions of our ethical standards. We encourage our employees to not only display our values through their work – integrity, respect, responsibility, and pioneering - but also be vigilant in identifying potential concerns and being confident to speak up knowing they will be listened to. As a member of our future career’s population, this is no different, you will be encouraged to follow these principles and feel confident enough to let others know think something is wrong. Your opinion matters, and we appreciate and acknowledge this for all in our business!

At Unilever, diversity is about championing inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We believe that every Unilever employee should feel able to bring their complete and authentic self to work every day irrespective of ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation, or gender. 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 Empower (racial diversity), ProUd (LGBTQ+), Equity (gender equality), Enable (disability), and many other communities including careers networks, thriving parents and more!

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 have been driving a pioneering sustainability agenda for over two decades. Yet, in the face of ever-growing economic, environmental, and social issues, we are evolving our approach.

Ringing the alarm and setting long-term goals isn’t good enough anymore. Now is the time to focus on delivering impact by making sustainability progress integral to business performance. 

We are set on facing this reality to deliver consistent and competitive performance while transforming our business to achieve our sustainability goals.

Want to learn more? Click the links below to read about our sustainability initiatives!