Manpower are currently seeking an interim HRBP, to work with our global FMCG client Unilever, renowned for brands such as Dove, Sure, Persil, and Simple, to become an integral part of their fast-paced FMCG environment.

The position can either be based at Blackfriars on London's Victoria Embankment (just a short walk from Blackfriars tube) or in Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, depending on candidate preference. This is a full-time temporary role to last until the end of June 2026, requiring 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, if working from Blackfriars, or 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, if working from Port Sunlight. Compensation for this role is competitive, paying circa £90,000 per annum, pro rata, depending upon experience.

The role currently offers a mix of remote and onsite working, subject to adjustment based on business requirements.

This role is a great opportunity to work in the Home Care Business Group acting as the trusted HR partner to our BG Central teams - Marketing, R&D, Consumer Insights, Finance, CD and our global Home Care Professionals business (UPro). Travel between Blackfriars and Port Sunlight is a key requirement to ensure the role is visible and remains close to the leaders it supports.

Key Responsibilities

• Trusted partner and coach to senior leaders in our Business Group Central teams, focused on the development and delivery of our people agenda, aligned to the business strategy.
• Setting the in-year and multi-year people priorities.
• Building deep business understanding and knowledge of the business area and strategy (internally and externally).
• Understanding the current organization design and the gaps and collaborating with business leaders to resource for value and build workforce plans.
• Lead key change programs and the consultation processes as appropriate for any change initiatives as and when applicable.
• As a member of the leadership team, be accountable for and have full ownership of people costs, including cost trade-offs, including temporary, fixed and variable resourcing.
• Business partnering the leadership team, ensuring HR solutions and interventions are delivered on time in full.
• Working and collaborating as part of the broader HR community to leverage scale and consistency where appropriate.
• Attracting, developing and retaining talent. Leading Talent forums including succession planning and proactive sourcing for specific capabilities, domain expertise and to address talent gaps.
• Deploying the One Unilever Expertise and Innovation agenda. Also as appropriate, contributing to and supporting experimentation and new interventions with the Expertise and Innovation teams.
• Embedding the Shape Your Own Adventure principles in talent and career progression practices.
• Ensuring two-way continuous dialogue and engagement across a geographically spread team in different countries.
• Leveraging HR data insights and analytics to drive people and business decisions.
• Identify specific learning needs and deliver the relevant capability agenda and interventions, in partnership with Expertise and Innovation functional Learning and People Growth and Development teams.
• Team effectiveness, change and transformation, strong facilitation skills to coach and build high performing teams.
• Being accountable for development of HR Partners supporting the people agenda.

Key Skills Required

• Experience in a similar role in an FMCG company preferred.
• Systematic and strategic thinking, being able to consider longer term implications for the business, society, and ecosystems. A deep understanding of the business and levers to pull, engaging others to prioritize and pursue opportunities that deliver significant growth for Unilever and have a positive impact on the world.
• An owner's mindset, being able to use financial acumen, data, and insights to inform thinking that both makes the complex simple for others, creates a sense of urgency with a business edge and can show how those insights have created impact and delivered business value.
• Leading and landing transformative change, comfortable experimenting with new approaches, pushing themselves and others to achieve outstanding outcomes.
• A talent catalyst - can show how they have created an inclusive climate, empowering their teams and their business partners to be their best, building talent intimacy and successful teams and building trust and respect with business leaders.
• Understanding of agile methodologies with examples of how this has been delivered.
• Performance coaching -delivering honest and challenging team and personal feedback in a way that supports individual growth, team development and helps the business perform better.
• Business Acumen - working so closely with the business group, it's critical you are fluent with the financials, and particularly the innovation and brand development models.
• People Leadership -identifying and nurturing talent for Unilever, through stretching developmental tasks and assignments.
• Take decisions always in the interest of Unilever (rather than individual parts), showing integrity and strength under pressure.
• Make bold decisions and support them fiercely.
• Create a fearless space (psychologically safe, diverse, respectful) for all our teams, embedding Unilever values and behaviours.
• Industrial relations/Trade Union experience desirable.