Head of HR Beauty & Wellbeing BG Marketing

Unilever; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking a Head of HR for Beauty & Wellbeing to redefine the workforce and culture within a dynamic business group. This role requires an experienced HR leader to act as a trusted advisor and orchestrate strategic initiatives that foster innovation and talent development. The successful candidate will integrate HR solutions with business strategy and lead change management efforts while building high-performing teams in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Free gym access

Discounted staff shop

Shares opportunity

Qualifications

• Experience in HR leadership roles, ideally in fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated ability to connect people strategies with business objectives.
• Proven track record in managing organizational change effectively.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to the leader of Beauty & Wellbeing Marketing.
• Build deep commercial and strategic insights to connect internal priorities with market shifts.
• Lead major change programs and consultation processes.

Skills

Systematic, strategic thinking

Commercial acumen

Proven change leader

Talent catalyst

Agile mindset

Performance coach

Deep business acumen

Decisive and bold leadership

Culture builder

Job description

About Us

Beauty and wellbeing are deeply interconnected, enhancing one enhances the other, and compromising one compromises both. Consumers, who no longer see the pursuit of beauty and wellbeing as independent of each other, are seeking solutions that support physical appearance, mental wellbeing, and holistic brands (body, love, soul). Yet the industry has been slow to respond—with 9 in 10 people believing that beauty industry products do not perform above all costs—making people feel that they need to focus on looking good rather than appreciating both how you look and how you feel. We are taking the lead by converging beauty and wellbeing to meet consumers’ evolving needs. We’re transforming our go‑to‑market, distribution, and innovation together. We are advancing new thinking through market‑leading science which harnesses this convergence. And we’re delivering for consumers by providing them with products that address their holistic needs while delivering the demand for wellbeing benefits.

Job Responsibilities

As Head of HR for Beauty & Wellbeing, you are seated at the very core of one of Unilever’s most disruptive and future-focused business groups. Beauty & Wellbeing is redefining the convergence of science, innovation, culture, and purpose—touching over a billion people every day. This role puts you three steps ahead, anticipating where the industry and organization must go, and architecting the workforce, culture, and capabilities that will get us there. You will report directly to the CHRO of B&W as a senior HR expert in the business group.

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to the leader of Beauty & Wellbeing Marketing, fusing the people agenda directly with business strategy.
• Set and deliver both in-year and multi-year people priorities that future-proof our ambition.
• Build deep commercial and strategic insight, connecting internal priorities with external consumer, cultural, and market shifts.
• Own next-generation organization design and workforce planning, positioning B&W as a truly social-first, digital-first organization.
• Lead major change programs and consultation processes, turning transformation into a competitive edge.
• Hold full accountability for people investments across the P&L, ensuring resourcing choices drive growth, agility, productivity, and innovation.
• Partner leadership teams to deliver HR solutions on time, in full, while leveraging the broader HR ecosystem for scale and consistency.
• Attract, develop, and retain world-class talent, leading succession and development forums to build future-critical capabilities.
• Embed the One Unilever Expertise & Innovation agenda, deploying experimentation, data-driven interventions, and new practices at scale.
• Champion the Shape Your Own Adventure approach to careers, enabling progression, growth, and purpose-driven work in a way that’s highly relevant to Beauty & Wellbeing.
• Ensure continuous two-way dialogue and engagement across geographically dispersed teams.
• Use HR data and analytics as foresight tools to steer business decisions.
• Identify learning needs and deliver capability agendas in partnership with Expertise & Innovation and People Growth teams.
• Build high-performing, future-ready teams through facilitation, coaching, and transformation leadership.
• Lead, Mentor and develop team of HRBPs, ensuring they can deliver bold, future-focused people agendas.
• Shape succession and career planning for tomorrow’s leadership, ensuring resilience and readiness across the BG.

Skills and Experience

• Systematic, strategic thinker who sees around corners and designs for long-term impact across business, society, and ecosystems.
• An owner’s mindset, blending commercial acumen with data-driven insights that simplify complexity and accelerate action.
• Proven change leader, able to experiment, adapt, and land transformative shifts at scale.
• A talent catalyst, creating inclusive, high-trust environments where people and performance thrive together.
• Agile mindset with track-record of delivering adaptive, iterative solutions.
• Performance coach, offering courageous feedback that accelerates growth for individuals, teams, and the business.
• Deep business acumen, fluent in the P&L and the levers that unlock growth.
• People leader who stretches and develops talent to fuel Unilever’s future.
• Decisive, bold, and courageous—making and standing by tough calls in the interest of Unilever’s whole.
• Culture builder who creates psychologically safe, diverse, and fearless spaces aligned with Unilever’s values.

Location

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston, Unilever House in Leatherhead and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, free gym, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, click here: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

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