Collaboration with all areas of the business
So, how exactly would you solve a huge technical conundrum for these teams? How would you use it to help produce some of the most popular brands in the world? The answer is, by not being technical.
Information Technology graduates at Unilever aren’t a technological clique: they collaborate with every area of the business to improve how we work, give us smarter, more efficient systems, and deliver better results. IT alters our business, often dramatically, so we need people who can work with technical teams closely, understand what they’re doing and then translate the importance of technology changes to people in the business at all levels, convincingly.
Working here is both varied and challenging: with each new project you’ll go through a sharp learning curve, quickly assimilating information about the function, its business needs, the requirements of the people within it, and the technology that can improve how it works.
What will you do?
You’ll undertake a great variety of projects, in around five or so placements: you could be finding new ways to present business information, helping the business communicate better or working side-by-side with brand teams, for example. Your brief will be to identify how technology can improve us, and then make it so, acting as the interface between internal clients and teams of technical specialists. Projects will focus on developing different skill areas including business knowledge and analysis, technical analysis, service delivery and overall project management. That will often mean working in cross-functional teams; and occasionally even internationally.
Training is provided through our European Information Technology foundation course, as well as Business Partnering and Project management courses relevant to your assignments. It’s also possible to study relevant professional qualifications.
What have recent trainees done?
- Created a system that helps our Sales, Marketing and Finance teams draw up watertight plans for every sales, promotional and marketing initiative, allowing them to collate, access and analyse a huge pile of information. They did this by working closely with the relevant teams and the developers to make sure that everything went smoothly and that all of the business needs were met.
- Managed a project developing web-based messaging solutions to optimise supply chain processes in our food services business.
- Co-ordinated the launch of a digital image library of products, working closely with the brand teams to create, source and upload images, as well as the developers building the application.
- Participated in a project examining the potential cost and service advantages, and issues, relating to outsourcing IT support to a third party supplier in India.
Who is it for?
This won’t suit people wanting to work as hands-on technical specialists. We’re looking for graduates who have the tenacity to push change through, the ability to organise highly complex projects, the skills to communicate to a huge variety of people and the kind of passion for technology that can’t help but inspire others. Could that be you?
Could this be you?
- Are you someone who enjoys building strong professional relationships – and getting results from them?
- Are you always the one organising the next big night out?
- Could you, for example, explain to your parents how to use the computer or digibox without falling out with them?
- Are you passionate about making changes for the better (and getting them done)?
- Do you enjoy coming up with creative solutions to tricky problems?
If your answer is yes to the above, then click on the link to apply!
