Recruitment at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Recruitment at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel and Company Secretary

Job ID.: R-98315
Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Function: Legal
Scope: Local

Job Purpose

• Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow.
• You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you.
• The main focus of this role is business partnering the Nigerian Leadership Team, ensuring the governance, compliance and controls framework is adhered to while also contributing to strategy development and execution for the Nigerian business.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Advises on a broad range of complex issues which are of strategic importance to long-term business performance.
• Key areas of activity are litigation, employment law, commercial law, brand protection,
• competition/antitrust, marketing legal, privacy and data protection, company secretarial
• support, among others.
• Company Secretary to the Board and management, including providing advice to the
• Boards and Management, engaging with regulatory bodies, and ensuring compliance with all listing requirements and other legal requirements.
• Takes responsibility for all legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other major organisational transactions.
• Partners with colleagues to identify the options for achieving business objectives within appropriate legal parameters and advising on the optimal solution, taking into account cost, risk and commercial consequences.
• Plans the conduct of substantial projects/litigation over period and may take ownership of significant commercial projects (e.g. joint ventures).
• Appoints, instructs, and manages external legal resources, including law firms, in accordance with the Engagement of the External Legal Professionals and Consultants Policy.
• Leads in negotiation/litigation, directing a team of lawyers, on a project basis.
• Takes the lead in helping the business to identify and manage legal risk and provides advice in a way that ensures achievement of business objectives.
• Interface with external regulators
• Provide a central source of guidance and advice to the Board and the Company on matters of ethics, conflict of interest and good corporate governance.

What You Will Need To Succeed
Experiences, Qualifications & Skills

• Qualified solicitor/barrister with over 15+ years post-qualification experience.
• Proven knowledge and experience in commercial law & practice.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of corporate law, competition law, intellectual property law, regulations.
• Company secretary & corporate governance experience
• Ability to co-ordinate corporate transactional work.
• Good team player having ability to work as a business Partner within an opco and collaborate with other global, sub-regional and regional lawyers.
• Excellent communication skills (oral & written)
• Negotiation skills.
• Good Analytical skills
• Attention to detail.

Leadership:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you.
• You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• Passion for High Performance: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• Talent Catalyst: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• Purpose & Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• Consumer Love: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Business Acumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Requisition ID: R-98419
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Job Purpose

• Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow.
• You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you.
• If you are then this role is just for you.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Technical – Develop technical resources to meet process and product technical support requirements.  Specific expertise in plant systems is required to represent plant needs in project development and design work.
• Project Management – Plan and execute projects involved with repair and capital installation. Use resources effectively to achieve expected results with spending and time constraints.
• Product, Process and Packaging Expertise- Knowledge of plant systems and equipment applied to maintenance activity and problem-solving efforts. Complete understanding of maintenance management function and the ability to apply technology and management systems effectively in maintaining plant assets and directing resources and employees.
• Cost Management- Manage maintenance spending, constantly seeking the least cost approach to assuring on-going process capability in meeting Division and Customer requirements. Develop budgets for department, work to reduce costs. Manage the technical teams and associated budgets responsible to deliver Projects, Innovation, Infrastructure and Services to the site.
• Comply with Company Policies for SHE (Safety, Health, Environment) and Quality.
• Develop, deploy and implement plans to ensure the best utilisation of assets in the sites as well as supervise and give guidance on the maintenance of such assets.
• Lead the Innovation implementation on the site, looking for best alternatives / options of design to manufacturing, following USCC / category technology selections. • Prepare and manage capital budgets.
• Support innovation delivery as part of regional network.
• Create and implement plans to continuously improve site infrastructure needs such as energy, water, treatment, steam and all infrastructure services, contracts and contractors.
• Manage the projects, overhauling and innovation budgets.
• Work collaboratively with Plant Managers and others to improve site and line efficiencies and reduce waste.
• Developing Others- Develop training programs for plant technical and operating employees. Coach technical resources effectively in developing an understanding of the role of maintenance in supporting plant operations effectively.

Requirements
Experiences & Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or other discipline.
• At least 6-10 years of experience in engineering, preferably within the manufacturing sector
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or relevant certifications can be advantageous. Project management certifications like PMP are also beneficial
• Strong technical knowledge in manufacturing systems, lean manufacturing, and industrial automation.
• Excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills to effectively manage team and collaborate with other departments.

Skills:

• Develop effective asset care programs, develop asset improvement programs using internal and external resources, assure compliance with equipment and system design and specification standards. Manage suppliers effectively assure that MRO spending is efficient.
• Define or use defined performance requirements and KPI to set targets and plan actions for continuous improvement in plant reliability and operating results.
• Technical design principle.
• Construction safety.

Leadership:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• Passion For High Performance: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• Talent Catalyst: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• Purpose & Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• Consumer Love: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Business Acumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Application Closing Date
23rd November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online