Unilever lanceert nieuw kanaal voor het aantrekken van MBA-afgestudeerden en -alumni

UNILEVER LAUNCHES NEW MBA RECRUITMENT CHANNEL

Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, aims to quadruple the number of MBA Business School graduates and alumni it recruits into live roles across its business over the next four years.

The global MBA recruitment channel has been launched to provide the company with the talent it will need to help meet Unilever’s ambition to double the size of its business while reducing its environmental impact.

It is the first time that Unilever has launched a formal global MBA recruitment channel where MBA Business School graduates and alumni will be hired into vacant roles.

At least 25 international management positions in Unilever’s marketing, supply chain and category teams are currently available for high-calibre MBA graduates and alumni for 2011. That number will increase incrementally to around 100 by 2014.

To meet this target, Unilever has partnered with 30 of the top MBA Business Schools around the world whose MBA alumni and graduates are given priority access to applying for the jobs available.

The investment reflects a shift in Unilever’s global talent acquisition strategy towards working more closely with the world’s best MBA Business Schools to boost its talent pipeline and ensure it is fit to win in an increasingly competitive and globalised market.

Unilever’s new global MBA recruitment channel is different to the majority of other companies because it is recruiting into live roles, instead of offering the traditional model whereby MBA graduates are placed on a career change programme.

Paul Maxin, Unilever's Global Resourcing Director said: “To achieve our vision of doubling the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact, it will be imperative that we recruit experienced, high calibre functional experts with an MBA, who have a global mindset and are already specialists in their field.”

“Our new global MBA recruitment channel will be absolutely crucial to delivering the talent we need to fulfil our growth ambition, and will also give MBA Business School alumni & graduates a fantastic opportunity to realise their personal goals too. Unilever is a business where talented individuals can go as far and as fast as their ambition and ability takes them." 

NOTES TO EDITORS

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About Unilever

Unilever works to create a better future every day.  We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others.

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong operations in over 100 countries and sales in more than 180. Consumers buy 170bn Unilever packs around the world every year, and our products are used over two billion times a day.

Our portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most loved brands including twelve €1 billion brands, and global leadership in most categories in which we operate.  The portfolio features iconic brands such as: Knorr, Dove, Lipton, Becel/Flora, Blue Band/Rama/Country Crock, Wall’s/OLA/Langnese, Hellmann’s, Calvé, Unox, Pond’s, Lux, Axe/Lynx, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Rexona/Sure, Omo, Surf, Cif, Signal and Glorix/Domestos.

We have around 167,000 employees, and generated annual sales of €44.3 billion in 2010.  For more information about Unilever and its brands, please visit www.unilever.com

Unilever is Food Industry Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes for the 12th year running. We are included in the FTSE4Good Index Series and attained a top environmental score of 5, leading to inclusion in the FTSE4Good Environmental Leaders Europe 40 Index. We are also ranked 7th in the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, a list compiled by Corporate Knights Magazine.  We achieved Platinum Plus standard in the UK’s Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index 2009, and were named Company of the Year in 2010. In November 2010, we launched the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan aiming to halve our overall environmental footprint.