Global Sustainability Impact & Assurance Lead

Unilever Brasil Ltda.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever London is seeking a Senior Manager, Sustainability Impact & Assurance to safeguard credibility and transparency across climate, nature, livelihoods and responsible sourcing commitments. You will lead governance, systems and insights to support strategic decisions and stakeholder confidence.

The role requires coordinating with global teams to ensure robust, auditable disclosures, and to drive assurance readiness, governance, and data quality across the Foods organisation and beyond.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in sustainability reporting, ESG assurance, and impact measurement within a global organisation.
• Strong understanding of sustainability reporting frameworks, assurance principles, and data governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional programmes with multiple stakeholders and governance.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate technical requirements into practical business processes.
• Strong analytical, risk management and problem-solving capabilities in regulated environments.
• Preferred experience supporting sustainability disclosures or regulatory reporting programmes.
• Familiarity with climate, nature, regenerative agriculture, responsible sourcing or supply-chain sustainability metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sustainability Impact & Assurance strategy with governance, model, systems and controls for independent management of sustainability measurement, reporting and assurance.
• Own sustainability data governance and reporting across climate, nature, livelihoods, regenerative agriculture and responsible sourcing disclosures.
• Drive assurance readiness and compliance, overseeing internal controls, audit preparedness, evidence management and external assurance activities.
• Establish impact measurement frameworks with KPIs, methodologies and performance-management processes.
• Provide technical leadership on sustainability claims and substantiation with robust evidence and governance.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Digital and Sustainability teams to embed data quality and reporting standards.
• Lead sustainability reporting transformation, streamline systems and automate reporting to improve decision-useful insights.
• Build future organisational capability with knowledge transfer and governance documentation.

Skills

Sustainability reporting & ESG

Frameworks & governance

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder influence

Analytical & risk management

Job description

Unilever London is seeking a Senior Manager, Sustainability Impact & Assurance to safeguard credibility and transparency across climate, nature, livelihoods and responsible sourcing commitments. You will lead governance, systems and insights to support strategic decisions and stakeholder confidence.

The role requires coordinating with global teams to ensure robust, auditable disclosures, and to drive assurance readiness, governance, and data quality across the Foods organisation and beyond.