Key facts on the Unilever Future Leaders Programme
- Location: South Africa with Global Exposure.
- Key highlights: the Unilever Future Leaders programme is designed for accelerated development to amplify a healthy level of stretch. It is a rotation based programme, which includes coaching, mentoring and the opportunity to tap into a Global network.
Choose a Unilever department to be a UFL in
Regardless of which business unit UFLs work in, they are a team of Unilever that’s working to create better futures every day.
Which is the right Unilever department for you
Research & Development
R&D turns brand dreams into reality. You’ll bring innovation to market, working closely with marketing, supply chain, finance and procurement partners.
- Formulation Design
- Packaging Development
- Regulatory Bodies
- Consumer Technical Insights
- Process Development (Engineering)
- Product Evaluation
- Measurement Sciences
- Chefmanship
- Nutrition and Health
- Specification Management
Customer Development
Who makes sure your favourite products get onto the shelves of your local supermarket? They get there through the efforts of a dynamic, multi-disciplined department called Customer Development.
Customer Development gives you the power to:
- Influence what shoppers put into their baskets
- Build perfect stores
- Land the biggest innovations launches in the market
- Shape the landscape of the retail space in Africa
No matter how appealing our products are, if they aren’t on shelves, they can’t sell. It’s up to our Customer Development team to work with our customers (e.g. Shoprite, Pick and Pay) to develop strategies on how best to serve our consumers.
Human Resources
Unilever’s HR professionals are equipped with the skills and abilities required to ensure that we have the right culture, people and capabilities in order to foster positive working relationships and meet business needs.
- Learning and Development
- Employee Relations
- Reward Specialist
- Talent Specialist
- HR Business Partner
“What I love about working at Unilever is that no two days are the same, there is constantly something exciting happening, smiling faces and always a buzz in the air.” Cindy Cairncross (Human Resources Business Partner, Functions – Finance and HR for HR)
Marketing
Using deep local knowledge of people and markets, we drive short and medium term profitable growth by delivering exceptional brand experiences in the marketplace, building our brands and growing our categories, within agreed strategy frameworks.
Global Brand Marketing
With exciting and compelling ideas, help shape brand identities that effectively penetrate markets. Form strategies, plan the full marketing mix and see those plans through to reality.
Local Brand Marketing
Help our products fly off the shelves and corner a bigger piece of market share. You’ll need to understand how consumers think and how a market moves to create brand awareness and loyalty.
Succeeding in our role requires a unique combination of business management, brand management, creativity and dynamic leadership skills.
Financial Management & Accounting
The role of Finance is to play a key part in protecting and unlocking value for Unilever by playing a stewardship and performance management role for the business.
Finance at Unilever involves:
- Skills in finance and various functions
- Provide world-class service
- Financial & Management Reporting
- Taxation, Treasury & Risk
You will support our core functions: Customer Development, Supply Chain and Marketing – giving you a solid understanding of the organisations Value Chain. Experience in the above areas, as well as honing in on the Unilever Finance Skills framework and completing your CIMA experience in your time as a graduate, is exactly what we need to groom our future leaders in an ever changing connected world.
