Senior Talent Partner

Business Context

Founded in 2015 as a stand alone global business unit, Unilever Prestige is now a leading global luxury beauty company and a powerhouse hub within Unilever with aggressive growth ambitions for the future.

Unilever Prestige comprises of distinctive, authentic brands that are powered by unique social and planet missions. Each brand has distinct growth opportunities and operational challenges to be addressed. This role will oversee supporting some of the selected multi brand portfolio brands mainly in the UK & EU with its unique needs to deliver their growth plans and develop their talent. This is a great challenge and opportunity to deliver end to end talent acquisition execution to impact the business growth directly.

Role Purpose

Senior Talent Partner engages with senior business stakeholders to gain an in depth understanding of business needs and priorities and translate the talent resourcing need into successful talent resourcing execution (i.e., using Be Resourceful and Open Talent Economy approach). Senior Talent Partner leads the delivery of talent resourcing needs with total talent approach, in line with talent strategy, working with diverse range of people & cultures. The scope of the markets include UK & Europe.

The role uses local talent market intelligence and on the ground awareness to co craft talent sourcing approach proactively with the business, executing the talent strategy with hiring decisions support in a multi country environment.

Working closely with key business stakeholders, Senior Talent Partner brings in talent with creative talent sourcing methodologies to ensure Unilever Prestige is positioned as The Employer of Choice in the markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders (including senior level and leadership team members), place talent through conducting end to end talent research & sourcing, achieving targets on candidate experience, hiring manager satisfaction, timeliness & quality of candidate.
• Drive the hiring process for active requirements: from talent advisory briefing meetings with external market insights; to setting up effective selection processes; to effectively screening applications, including reviewing CVs and office based interviews, making informed judgements on shortlists; to advising the business on the key skills and characteristics that matter most to the organisation.
• Based on business briefings; actively conduct candidate searches-considering the Open Talent Economy & searching the wide range of different talent profiles (External, Internal, Flex, Freelancers, Contractors, Referrals).
• Run employer brand activations in social media, develop relevant content for Talent Communities to drive engagement through hyper targeted campaigns.
• Anticipate business needs; approach and engage high quality passive and active talent (through multiple mediums), building talent ecosystems that meet current and future skill and capability requirements.
• Actively build proactive talent pipelines. Build awareness of the internal and external talent landscape across a range of functions, develop a holistic view of talent in discipline.
• Maintain high standards of performance during peaks in workload (able to manage 20 vacancies, as well as participating in value add proactive talent resourcing or talent attraction events, including facilitating Talent Workshops & Talent Capability Building Interventions).
• Show strong brand representation of Unilever Prestige.

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree.
• Proven track record of talent partnership & acquisition experience, (Executive Search - Consultancy background is an asset) with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in English, coupled with either French, Italian or Spanish.
• Proven success working in a fast paced, high growth environment.
• Keen business sense, with the ability to find creative & proactive talent solutions to problems.
• Business understanding: takes an active interest in what we do as a business and how we do it - a commercial focus and proactive action orientation is essential.
• Collaboration, relationship building and influencing: constructively questioning and influencing whilst maintaining collaborative relationships is key and requires constant dialogue with hiring managers.
• Client mindset: partnering is a huge focus, because it's not just what you do, but how you do it that matters. That's why you're a stimulating communicator and credible influencer who can build close relationships.
• Agility, adaptability and pace: take a planned approach to working at pace in a complex environment.
• Future fit skills: customer experience, creativity, problem solving.
• Leadership behaviours: stay three steps ahead, care deeply, deliver with excellence, focus on what counts.

As an equal opportunities' employer, Unilever Prestige Hub Brands/Tatcha/Murad Living Proof/K18 is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do. In particular, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Unilever Prestige Hub Brands/Tatcha/Murad Living Proof/K18.