HR Business Partner Finland - Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading daily consumer goods producers, whose products are used more than 2,5 billion times each day. Unilever’s activities are strongly guided by our central goal of making a sustainable living commonplace. 

We want to offer interesting and challenging tasks right from the first working day. We are constantly investing in staff development and we encourage our employees to create different, self-looking careers. We strongly believe that diversity in personnel backgrounds will help us to better understand consumers and develop our work community. For more information, please visit  https://www.unilever.fi/about/. 

We are now looking for a business-minded and development-oriented HR Business Partner to drive business success through the performance and engagement of people at Unilever Finland.

Your role as HRBP Finland includes three dimensions. Firstly, you will be responsible for driving the Nordic HR agenda in Unilever Finland and working as an integral part of the Country Leadership Team. You will be a trusted associate and a sparring partner of the General Manager and other management team members and implement Global/Nordic People initiatives to Finland. Secondly, you will act as a HR Business Partner for the sales unit, driving business success by providing HR partnership and expertise for the business managers. And thirdly, you will own and lead wider HRD projects on Nordic level eg. Wellbeing, Learning etc.

You will work in close cooperation with the Nordic HR team, which consists of over 20 professionals in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. As a collective team they are on a journey to becoming more digital, agile, front line focused and drive their own skill sets relevant for the future. You will be reporting to the Nordic HR Director.

If you are looking for your next career step in HR in a global and dynamic company and enjoy enabling business to grow through its people (and having fun while doing so) keep reading!  

What’s in it for you: 

• Opportunity to join the future focused Nordic HR team that continuously develops people processes and concepts, working and succeeding together to achieve high outcomes  
• A role close to the business – HRBP is truly a strategic partner of the General Manager and business leaders
• In Finland there is a compact work community of over 100 people, with whom you can really get acquainted as HR Business Partner, but at the same time you will enjoy the support and advancements of a big corporation
• Profitable company which has high-class HR processes already in place, so that you can focus on developing the business through people
• Chance to work with world’s best-known brands
• Meaningful work with impact on the future – Unilever believes that business growth should not be at the expense of people and the planet (Read more here)

What we are looking for: 

• You have a versatile HR background and at least a few years of experience in a HR Business Partner role, close to the business
• You are familiar with working in an international setting, and thus know how to influence, network and navigate in a global matrix organization 
• You truly are a business-minded HR professional; you understand the challenges and needs of the business and deliver the right solutions to increase business value
• You dare challenge the status quo and put forth your own views and ideas
• You know how to build trustful relationships at all levels of the organization
• You are a solution-oriented and proactive doer who takes his/her space in a positive way 
• You have strong communication skills in English and Finnish

This position is located at Unilever’s new office in Kalasatama, Helsinki.

Got interested? 

Please send your CV and cover letter with salary request via our recruitment system as soon as possible, 30th December at the latest. For more information please contact Anna Vainionpää (+358 50 574 0942, anna.vainionpaa@k2search.fi). The best time to reach Anna by phone is on 18^th December at 14-16 and 29^th December at 10-12.

The recruitment process:

1. Applications and Executive Search
2. Alva logical ability & work personality tests for the candidates invited to the interview
3. Interview with K2 Search on week 1
4. Interviews with Unilever’s Nordic HR Director and General Manager on week 2 and 3

All applications and contacts will be treated confidentially.