Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever’s Future Leaders (UFLs) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles. The Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP) is a global initiative enabling Unilever to build a strong talent pipeline that will support and lead our business growth. In the UK, our UFLP is a 36-month rotational leadership development program for which we recruit top-performing undergraduate talent who demonstrate the potential to become managers within our business. It’s designed to grow you into a manager, through hands‑on learning alongside world‑class experts. You’ll be hired into a function and develop your leadership skills by working on live projects which offer you all the experience you need to become ready for your first management role. At the heart of it, it’s about developing tomorrow’s leaders, today.
From Day 1, you will take on real business challenges within your own function and across the organization. Along the way you will develop deep core professional skills and leadership skills, and build a robust support network. On top of all that, you will have a lot of fun along the journey. We look for people who want to get to grips with the inner workings of a vast business and a desire to understand how it works. It’s about commitment, real people skills and a deep‑sealed interest in the business as a whole.
You’ll become part of a leading‑edge company, where you’ll work with outstanding brands and outstanding people to drive sustainable business growth. Your Future Employer Unilever is one of the world’s leading FMCG companies, home to iconic brands including Dove, Vaseline, TRESemmé, Lynx, Persil, Domestos, Surf, Radox, Sure and Liquid I.V. Through products used by millions of people every day, we help improve health, wellbeing, confidence and care around the world. Established over 100 years ago, Unilever has a proud heritage of innovation and a long‑standing belief that great brands, great people and responsible business go hand in hand.
Today, we are transforming into a faster, more focused growth company centred on Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care and Home Care. Through world‑class brands, cutting‑edge science and technology, digital innovation and AI‑enabled capabilities, we are building unmissably superior products and experiences for consumers around the world. A career at Unilever offers the opportunity to work at global scale while helping shape the future of some of the world’s most recognised brands. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, bringing curiosity, creativity and passion to solve real business challenges and make a meaningful impact every day.
What will the programme involve?
You’ll complete six rotations, each lasting six months, allowing you to gain both depth and breadth of experience. You will:
- Participate in a leadership development programme designed to accelerate your growth and prepare you to become one of Unilever’s future leaders.
- Specialise in Technology or Cyber Security or Data & Analytics.
- Complete rotations within your chosen area to build core expertise.
- May have the opportunity to work outside your chosen track (e.g. marketing, supply chain, customer development).
- Be flexible on the scheme and work across offices in Kingston upon Thames, London and Port Sunlight (near Liverpool) depending on the rotation.
- Be supported with a dedicated mentor, who is an expert in your chosen stream and will guide you throughout the programme.
- Shape the scheme through our graduate‑led pillars, such as wellbeing, learning and development and placement success. These pillars are run by current graduates and play a key role in shaping the UFLP experience.
Data & Analytics Stream
In this specialised stream, you will delve into the fascinating world of Data & Analytics, collaborating on real business projects and building expertise in cutting‑edge cloud and rapidly advancing AI technologies. As AI continues to evolve at extraordinary speed, ensuring our data is high quality, trusted, and ready is more important than ever. Unleashing the power of data, you’ll play a pivotal role in strategic delivery, unlocking invaluable insights for our business. At Unilever, our commitment to data democratization empowers business users across the globe to make confident, data‑driven choices. This pervasive shift facilitates informed decision‑making across all aspects of our business, identifying granular growth opportunities and propelling us to outperform the market.
Your journey within the program will encompass diverse experiences in data analytics, data science, data engineering, and business partnering, as you leverage and maximise the vast scale of information available at Unilever.
Day‑to‑day role could include
Day to day, you could be helping prepare our data lakehouses for AI by improving data quality, structure and accessibility, ensuring the information within them is ready to fuel advanced analytics and machine learning. You could partner with teams across the business to create meaningful dashboards, strengthen data pipelines, and analyse rich datasets to reveal insights that guide important decisions. You could be working with some of our strategic technology partners like Google and Microsoft to deliver large scale global programmes, or with niche technology start‑ups and industry innovators to solve current business and sustainability challenges. Your work will directly contribute to making Unilever’s data landscape more intelligent, scalable and AI ready.
- Data Science Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence Team
- Data Strategy Team
- Cross‑operations Data & AI Change Management
Skills required include:
- Curiosity about AI
- Foundational cloud computing awareness
- Interest in statistics
- Basic programming knowledge
- Stakeholder Analysis / Management / Business Partnering
- Product ManagementSystems Thinking
- Artificial Intelligence Risk Management
- Project Management / Agile Delivery
- Change Management & Activation
- Strategic Thinking
- Third Party Management
What Can Unilever offer YOU?
- A Competitive Salary of £35,000
- A Benefits Envelope which has a notional value of 25% of your pensionable earnings. Use it to save for your pension, get extra taxable pay or both.
- A pension Scheme
- Annual Bonus
- A discounted staff shop
- Subsidised Gym Memberships - availability varies by site
- Shares
- Relocation support through a £5000 tax free loan
- 25 days of holiday allowance
Additional details
Diversity at Unilever is about championing inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. To celebrate this, we have internal networks and communities created to raise awareness for a cause, which work to create change within the business. These networks include Proud, Empower, Enable and Unity and our communities include Thriving Parents, Carers, and All Inclusion Club. We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
We are a key advocate of well‑being 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.
What support will you receive?
- A dedicated buddy to help you onboard and learn about the business.
- A dedicated Career Sponsor, who can support you with your growth & development throughout the total duration of your programme.
- An experienced Line Manager for each of your functional rotations, allowing you to gain a breadth of experience.
- A bespoke Learning & Development Plan, designed to help you build your leadership skills.
- Opportunities to gain leadership experience outside of your functional rotations.
Do you require any adjustments in the application or assessment process? If you do need any adjustments, please inform the Talent Acquisition team who will contact you to discuss the accessibility options available. E.g., if required extending time spent in any ‘timebound’ assessments/interviews. We also provide accessibility options such as magnifying glass, decrease/increase the font size, change font & colour, screen ruler, and screen mask for everyone who would require support.
Location:Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days required weekly at our London Blackfriars, Kingston office or Port Sunlight (Wirral) offices.
Travel Required:Approximately 10-25% of your time, depending on your functional rotation.
Closing date: This is a rolling deadline, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment in case applications close early.
Start date September 2027
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