Duration: 12 month internship)
Placement: La Lucia, Durban, South Africa
Time Type: Full time
Due Date: August 30, 2025
Job Importunity Id:
- R- 35615 Durban
- R-31295 Johannesburg
Our unborn Leaders Programme will enkindle the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever’s unborn Leaders (UFL) by furnishing grueling and purposeful openings that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership places.
The Unilever YES Programme
About Unilever
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and ameliorate the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We’re driven by our purpose to make sustainable living cliché , and it’s our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will produce a better business and a better world.
At Unilever, your career will be a unique trip, predicated in our inclusive, cooperative, and flexible working terrain. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits each’ approach and rather we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
The Youth Employment Service (YES) Programme is a public cooperative action aimed at empowering South African youth by furnishing them with precious work experience. The YES Programme at Unilever is further than just work experience it’s a helipad for unborn careers. As part of this action, you’ll be immersed in a 12- month trip designed to enkindle your eventuality, equip you with practical chops, and expose you to real- world business challenges. Whether you’re supporting brigades in our services or on the plant bottom, you’ll gain meaningful, hands- on experience in a fast- paced terrain where literacy, growth, and purpose come together. This is your chance to be part of a company that’s reimagining the future of work and investing in yours
Job Purpose
The Unilever YES Programme is meant to give actors with a meaningful work experience, chops development openings, and exposure to a professional terrain as stepping gravestone into the world of work.
What will your main liabilities be:
Actors will take on support liabilities across different business functions. These liabilities play a pivotal part in icing the effective operation of the function and offer accelerated and practical work experience.
The different business functions are:
- Customer Development (CD): This function works with customers—such as major supermarkets—to ensure that outlets deliver optimal results for both Unilever and the customer. It focuses on building strong relationships and driving sales through effective collaboration and execution at the customer level.
- Culinary: Help prepare product samples for customer demos and logistics of demo events, trade shows, customer meetings. You will get to support chefs with content creation for webinars and “how to” videos
- Marketing: Responsible for building brands, driving consumer engagement, and developing strategies to grow market share and brand equity.
- Supply Chain: Manages the end-to-end process of sourcing, manufacturing, and delivering products to customers.
- Human Resources (HR): Handles talent management, employee engagement, and organizational development.
- Finance: Oversees financial planning, analysis, reporting, and compliance.
- IT (Information Technology): Supports business operations with technology solutions and digital transformation.
- Mechanical Engineering: Work on engineering projects, and gain exposure to industry-leading manufacturing processes.
- Safety Health and Environment (SHE): Supports the site SHE Coordinator to implement systems to reduce Occupational Health and Safety risk by the creation and maintenance of an effective SHE management system.
- Communications: Manages internal and external communications, including corporate affairs and public relations.
- Learning & Rewards: Focuses on employee development, training, and compensation strategies.
Minimal Conditions:
- South African citizen, progressed 18 – 34 times
- Presently jobless and not studying full- time
- Completed Matric instrument (Grade 12)
- Applicable tertiary qualifications profitable
- Shouldn’t have further than 2 times’ work experience
- Commitment to the 12- month programme
- Mustn’t have completed a YES Programme preliminarily
- Amenability to learn and grow in a professional terrain
- A strong academic record
- Strong computer knowledge
- Strong written and verbal communication chops
- Good time operation
- Capability to work in a cooperative platoon terrain
- A positive station
Unilever Actions
- Assess whether the campaigners’ responses and exemplifications reverberate with Unilever’s anticipated behaviours.
- Care Deeply We watch deeply about how consumers witness our brands every day, far and wide; about our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the earth. We watch about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we do n’t win.
- Focus on What Counts We ruthlessly prioritise what truly matters, and so do smaller effects brilliantly. We set clear pretensions & direction and honor others for maximum impact.
- Stay Three way Ahead We suppose bravely and creatively to make improvements in performance. We’re always curious and confident- anticipating and staying ahead of consumer requirements and external trends, to beat the competition.
- Deliver with Excellence We deliver excellence in what we do at pace. We take particular power and hold each other to regard – always chancing a way to do what we said we will do.
Please kindly attach the following documents as part of the selection
- streamlined CV
- Copy of tertiary qualification( e.g. Grade 12, Diploma, Degree)
We value equity, diversity and addition. This action forms part of our metamorphosis objects and our commitment to Employment Equity, consideration will thus be given to suitably good individualities from designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Act)
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
