Job Description

Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilevers Future Leaders (UFL) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles.

Job title: Unilever Future Leaders Programme (UFLP) 2024 Finance - UAE

Location: Dubai, UAE

Who Is Unilever

At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of one of the most successful, purpose-led businesses. Work with brands that are loved around the world, improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We produce world-leading brands including Dove, Tresemme, Axe, and Hellmanns, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerrys, The Dollar Shave Club and Seventh Generation.

Work alongside brilliant and inspiring industry leaders and colleagues. If you want to feel proud of what you do and make others proud too, join us. Get a glimpse into life at Unilever and discover how you can help make a better business, a better world and a better you.

Unilevers ambition is to double the size of our business, whilst reducing our overall environmental impact (including sourcing, consumer use and disposal). We are also committed to doing what we can to improve health, nutrition and hygiene, with a target to help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being. All of these goals are itemized in around 60 time-based commitments in our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.

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. 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 within 3 years. Its designed to grow you into a manager, through hands-on learning alongside world-class experts. Youll 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, its about developing tomorrows leaders, today.

From Day 1, our Management Trainees (MTs) take on real business challenges within their own function and across the organization. Each of our MTs will gain an understanding of how we make and how we sell our products, become immersed in our sustainability initiatives, understand and experience first-hand our global markets, and build people management skills and financial acumen. 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. Its about commitment, real people skills and a deep-seated 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.

So Here's How It Works

• 36-Month Rotation Program (4-5 Rotations)
• 1 Functional Roadmap Based on Your Business Area
• 1 Retail Experience - First Assignment is always learning the heart of our business, working with our products at the point of sale
• Formal Training + Informal Learning
• Mentorship + Exposure to Senior Leaders + Peer Network
• High Levels of Performance and Delivery
• Potential to Reach Manager-Level Upon Successful Program Graduation
  
  

Well make sure you gain broad experience in several different areas, some of which focus on:

• The Consumer: Analyzing consumer trends on performance
• Our Brands: Building a business case for launching the next Liptons flavor
• The Customer: Creating a joint strategy with the worlds biggest retailers
• The Shareholder: Preparing management & financial statements
  
  

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree, preferably Finance, Business Administration, or any relevant major
• Strong academic track record: well-standing GPA (or equivalent)
• Good analytical skills, willingness to learn and strong aptitude for communication skills
• Fresh graduates up to 1 year of experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of FMCG industry is a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively within a cross-functional team
• Ability to extract critical data and generate actionable insights
• Strong business acumen
• Must be based in UAE