AI-Driven Workforce & Agentic Planning Lead

Unilever; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Sunlight House Kingston is seeking a Workforce & Agentic Planning Manager to lead the strategic workforce planning function, aligning business strategy with finance cycles, skills, capacity, automation and token-based workforce dimensions.

You will develop AI-enabled planning tools and planning agents to help leaders and People teams compare scenarios, quantify trade-offs and support informed workforce decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing planning processes and scenario models for senior leaders.
• Hands-on AI-enabled planning with guardrails and prompt design.
• Strong business sense of workforce costs and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and continuous improvement of Unilever’s strategic workforce planning capability, connected to business and Finance planning cycles.
• Co-design one joined-up annual and strategic planning process with Finance, linking workforce, capacity, skills, cost, productivity and financial outcomes.
• Build artificial intelligence-enabled planning tools and agents for capacity forecasting, skills gap analysis, automation impact, option generation and decision support.
• Translate business strategy into workforce scenarios across full-time equivalent, skills, location, reskilling, automation, agent capacity and token economics.
• Set planning quality standards — assumptions, data inputs, scenario logic, evidence, guardrails and human review points.
• Ensure planning outputs connect into hiring, internal movement, learning, organisation design, automation and cost management.
• Specify data and agent requirements with Foundations and Global Digital and Technology, drawing on the shared workforce data foundation rather than building parallel planning sources.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

Cost & productivity awareness

Decision frameworks

AI planning literacy

Product mindset

Job description

Unilever in Sunlight House Kingston is seeking a Workforce & Agentic Planning Manager to lead the strategic workforce planning function, aligning business strategy with finance cycles, skills, capacity, automation and token-based workforce dimensions.

You will develop AI-enabled planning tools and planning agents to help leaders and People teams compare scenarios, quantify trade-offs and support informed workforce decisions.