Ice Cream GTM HR Business Partner

Job Title: HR Business Partner

Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ (Hybrid)

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

Are you ready to take your HR career to the next level? Join us in supporting a vibrant, cross-functional team of Ice Cream enthusiasts through an exciting business transformation. As the HR Associate Director's right-hand person, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring effective business partnering, streamlining HR processes, maintaining accurate employee data, and fostering a fun and innovative culture.

In the US, we have multiple sites, and this role will specifically support our Ice Cream GTM colleagues across the US and Canada. You'll be part of a dynamic team providing HR support across North America, helping to unlock the full growth potential of our Ice Cream division as a standalone entity by November 2025.

Unilever Ice Cream is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of over $8 billion. All brands are driven to transform moments into memories through indulgent yet responsibly made and marketed products. We have a well-developed strategy to deliver growth and value creation which is clear on where to play and how to win. We spark moments of happiness for people and within the communities where we operate. However, it is not as simple as it may seem. As Ice Cream makers we are serious about happiness. With warm hearts, we create the coolest products.

JOB PURPOSE:

Are you driven to make employee experiences at Unilever as simple and delightful as they can be? Do you want to support people so they can be their best?

As an HR Business Partner, you will play a key role in delivering a great employee and line manager experience by being the primary contact for a dedicated group of Line Managers and Employees. You will provide advice, guidance, and support on employment matters and individual situations and manage the necessary processing to implement changes. You will be involved in HR activities spanning the whole employee life cycle, such as onboarding, international/domestic mobility, pay, leave of absence, performance questions, etc.

You love connecting with people, have good expertise and knowledge of (HR) policies, labor law, and processes, and are therefore able to provide (proactive) advice on all day-to-day HR activities. You are always driven to deliver a great experience, look for opportunities to

structurally improve experiences with an eye for people and processes, and can leverage a network of HR experts behind the scenes. You work well will others and can collaborate with your team leader to ensure seamless experience across the client group.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

You will deliver a great employee and line manager experience every day by:

• Empowering Line Managers: Partnering with them and providing excellent guidance on individual matters to help them become great leaders.
• Supporting Employees: Acting as the single point of contact for employee challenges, developing close relationships with both employees and line managers, and making their lives simpler and more effective.
• Creating a Great Employee Experience: Supporting the Ice Cream division's transition to a standalone entity and office relocation if needed.
• Problem Solving: Using policies, expertise, knowledge of laws and systems, social skills, and common sense to find the right approach for specific questions.
• Building Relationships: Getting to know employees and ensuring they know you, which allows you to address ad-hoc requests and issues early on.
• Consistency in Policies: Ensuring that employee policies, practices, and programs are applied consistently across the business.
• Leveraging Technology: Owning and utilizing personnel technologies to deliver a great employee experience, while also developing and implementing new solutions.
• Managing Transactions: Handling a variety of employee transactions end-to-end and leveraging a network of experts to provide the right solution each time.
• Contributing to HR Strategy: Supporting broader HR strategies by participating in workshops, HR changes, and health, wellbeing, and development activities for employees, enabling them to thrive.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

Are you ready to bring your HR expertise to a dynamic and growing team? This role is perfect for you if you:

• Educational Background: Have a university degree.
• HR Experience: Possess at least 5 years of experience in advising and coaching line managers and/or employees on HR-related matters such as performance issues, job evaluations, conflict resolution, and inquiries about leave, pay, and promotions.
• Confident and Proactive: Are not afraid to push back when needed and are driven to deliver an excellent end-to-end employee/line manager experience.
• Policy and Law Knowledge: Have a proficient and broad understanding of policies, labor law, and the ability to navigate complex processes and systems.
• Strategic Vision and Detail Mastery: Grasp the broader business context and impact while maintaining an impeccable eye for detail and nuance.
• Challenge Enthusiast: Get fired up by challenges and remain calm when dealing with multiple priorities or peaks in workload.
• Pragmatic and Thorough: Are pragmatic yet thorough in your work, always finding the best approach for every situation and spotting opportunities for improvement.
• Team Player and Independent Worker: Can work independently while also enjoying collaboration with colleagues. Love being part of a great team of HR professionals.
• Tech-Savvy: Enjoy working with new technology, are interested in HR trends and developments, and strive for continuous process improvement.
• Adaptable: Like working in a dynamic, complex, international, and ever-changing environment.
• Language Skills: Proficient in English.

KEY INTERFACES

• Ice Cream US/Canada Leadership Team
• Ice Cream Line Managers and Employees
• Ice Cream HR Team
• Extended HR Network
• People Operations – People Partners, TLO, Data Hub.
• Expertise teams (e.g. Reward, Employee Relations/Legal, Benefits, Payroll, Global Mobility)

LEADERSHIP:

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:

• PERSONAL MASTERY: You set high standards for yourself themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: You motivate people to deliver results at speed and takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $86,080 to $129.120. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the US. If you are based outside of the US and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the US Market.

What We Can Offer You

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