Job Title: Organisation Design Manager
Work Level: WL2C
Location: Kingston
Purpose of the Role
Unilever is reshaping how it operates — across GBS, Supply Chain & Operations, and through major M&As. This role sits at the heart of that change. You'll design the organizational structures, roles, and workforce plans that make transformation real — bringing clarity to complexity and ensuring our teams are set up to deliver in an increasingly AI-enabled world.
Key Responsibilities
1. Organization Design – Supply Chain & Ops, GBS
•Own end-to-end org design for 1-2 GBS value streams (Forecast to Report, Source to Pay etc.) or Supply Chain & Ops functional programs (Customer Operations, GDT, Procurement etc.).
•Design target operating models that simplify structures, reduce layers, and enable scalable delivery across markets interlocking with Intelligent GBS processes.
•Optimize spans of control and reporting lines, benchmarking against best-in-class global standards.
•Align all design work to Mirai, Intelligent GBS, and Unilever's broader transformation priorities.
2. AI and the future of Organization Design
•Assess how AI, automation, and agentic tools are changing roles, decision rights, team structures and redesign accordingly.
•Build governance frameworks for AI-augmented operations: who decides, who oversees, and how accountability flows.
•Redefine role families to reflect human-AI collaboration — what is automated, what's augmented, what stays human.
•Workforce Planning & Analytics - Build and maintain workforce plans that connect headcount, skills, and capability needs to transformation roadmaps.
Who will you work with?
•Partner with HRBPs, functional leads, Group OD team and project PMOs to validate proposals and keep stakeholders aligned.
•Prepare materials for governance forums, design reviews & Steer Co’s
•Partner with Change & Comms team to ensure people understand what's changing, why, and what it means for them.
What will you bring?
•Experience in organization design, workforce planning, or transformation in a large, global business. Experience with M&A OD would be a plus.
•An understanding of how AI is reshaping roles, governance, and org. models.
•Ability to understand business operating models, business value chains and scenario modelling of organisation design choices on execution, decision making and key metrics (costs, spans etc.)
•The ability to work across a complex matrix, collaboration, challenge status quo & influence senior stakeholders.
•Analytical mindset and confidence with data — workforce analytics, scenario modelling, and tools like Orgvue, Workday, or Power BI.
•Sharp communication skills — you can make complex org design concepts land with any audience.
What will you get?
•A front-row role in shaping major transformation programs across GBS, Supply Chain & Operations, and M&A.
•The opportunity to be coached and developed in a high-impact OD role, while helping build critical in-house organization design capability within Unilever.
•Exposure to senior leaders, future-focused work on AI and high-impact work that will accelerate your growth in organisation design and transformation.
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What We Offer
Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme,wealso offer an annual bonus,subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares.You’llhave the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs,programmesand development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace andto, above all, createpossibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creatingpossibilitiesand growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups,please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever
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