JOB TITLE: Site HR Business Partner (HPC)
WORK LEVEL: WL2C
LOCATION: Port Sunlight Factories (Site Based)
This is a senior HR Business Partner opportunity to shape the people agenda for one of Unilever’s most iconic manufacturing locations. Based at Port Sunlight Factories, the role partners with two Factory Directors and their leadership teams across a large, unionised, multi-factory environment, influencing the leadership, organisation and workforce choices that enable delivery of the factory masterplan.
The role translates site, category and Supply Chain priorities into a focused people strategy that supports performance today while building future workforce readiness. It requires a commercially minded HR leader who can provide strategic challenge, insight and coaching to senior leaders, using people data, organisational diagnostics and external awareness to strengthen decision-making, leadership effectiveness and organisational health.
Port Sunlight produces Home Care, Home & Hygiene and Personal Care products, including fabric washes and conditioners, bleach and surface sprays, shower gel and shampoo. The HRBP must therefore operate confidently in a fast-paced manufacturing setting, balancing operational delivery, employee and industrial relations, transformation and long-term capability building.
Working through the broader HR model, including People Experience, Learning and Development, Expertise teams and employee/industrial relations partners, the HRBP ensures integrated HR delivery while personally leading the strategic people priorities that have the greatest impact on site performance, culture and transformation.
MAIN JOB PURPOSE
The Site HRBP shapes and leads the people and organisation strategy for Port Sunlight Factories, ensuring the site has the leadership capability, workforce model, culture and employee relations environment required to deliver current performance and future transformation.
The role acts as a senior strategic partner to two Factory Directors and their leadership teams, influencing beyond immediate HR delivery to shape organisation design, capability investment, leadership effectiveness and future workforce plans.
The role converts business priorities into practical people interventions across strategic workforce planning, talent and succession, capability building, engagement, employee and industrial relations, change management and the People Development agenda under the Unilever Supply Chain System.
Success in the role requires balancing day-to-day operational complexity across a unionised, multi-factory environment of over 500 employees with the longer-term organisational choices needed to deliver the factory masterplan and broader Supply Chain priorities.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Strategy and Business Partnering
• Partner with two Factory Directors and their leadership teams as a senior strategic advisor, translating site, category and Business Unit priorities into a clear people and organisation plan that enables delivery of the factory masterplan and broader Supply Chain priorities.
• Use business insight, people data, external awareness and organisational diagnostics to anticipate risks, identify strategic opportunities and shape interventions that improve performance, productivity and organisational health.
• Represent the site people agenda in senior forums, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and ensuring people implications are built into business decisions, investment choices and transformation plans.
Resourcing, Talent and Succession
• Lead strategic workforce planning and organisation design across the Port Sunlight factory environment, shaping future-fit structures, capability pipelines and leadership capacity to meet current performance demands and future transformation requirements.
• Own and drive the site talent and succession agenda for critical leadership and capability roles, strengthening leadership pipelines, succession depth and development plans for priority…