Unilever is currently hiring for a Business Integrity Officer – 1UL and BI PMO
Function: Legal Business Integrity
Work Level: WL2A
Reports to: Business Integrity Officer – Personal Care & 1UL
Scope: 1UL Countries
Location: Nigeria
About Unilever
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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
CATEGORY/FUNCTION INTRODUCTION
At Unilever, our commitment to “Value with Values” requires ongoing efforts to embed a culture of integrity across our entire operational footprint. This implies significant efforts to prevent, detect, and if necessary, investigate potential concerns relating to our Code of Business Principles and Code Policies (the Code), and to hold individuals accountable where appropriate. Unilever sets similarly high standards in selecting suppliers and business partners.
Job Purpose
The Business Integrity Officer – 1UL & Global BI Project Manager Officer (“BIO”) works alongside with a senior member of the Business Integrity (“BI”) team to provide ethics and compliance leadership and support to all countries comprising the cluster internally called as “1 Unilever”, covering markets in Latin America, Europe, all of Africa and parts of Asia. The BIO supports the business leaders of 1UL, as owners of Code and business integrity risks inherent in their operations, to identify and mitigate these by reference to the Code and the tools that govern relations between Unilever and third parties. The BIO helps manage the Business Integrity Committees of the 1UL group, provides advice to the business on how to act within the Code, conducts risk assessments and trainings and supports investigations. Additionally, the BIO project manage key BI global projects led by other members of the BI team and assists in the running of the global BI team.
The BIO reports to the Business Integrity Officer – Personal Care & 1UL based in London, UK. In their role of PMO they will have dotted line to other senior members of the Global BI Team as required.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE ?
- Supporting Business Integrity Committees; share trends, better practices, and lessons learned; and provide advice to leaders.
- Promoting speak-up across the organisation and help employees raise concerns appropriately.
- Supporting the execution of the global learning plan, including mandatory and strategic non-mandatory training.
- Working with stakeholders to assure third party compliance program, e.g., due diligence, red flag mitigation, is implemented efficiently and effectively.
- Lead, participate or collaborate where required in the different risk assessments and audits.
- Leading or supporting investigations as required from time to time in collaboration with the BI Investigations Group and other members of the team, although it is not the primary responsibility of the role.
- Provide advice and oversight to assigned investigators to matters concerning 1UL countries e.g., BI, HR, Finance, Operations to assure quality of process and outputs.
- Escalate matters as appropriate, provide recommendations on sanctions and mitigation actions; assure accountability, consistency, and timely execution of corrective actions.
- Be the project manager for selected key global projects and for the running of the global BI team.
- Be an active contributor for the continuous enhancement of the Business Integrity programme
Key Requirements & Experiences
- Bachelor’s degree is required. Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (law, business, compliance, etc) is an advantage.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in related areas.
- Knowledge and experience in business integrity risk areas, e.g., US FCPA, UKBA, and major bribery laws and regulations.
- Demonstrated experience in a similar role in multinational corporation(s).
- Proven experience in conducting investigations in various areas like fraud, bribery, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, theft, etc.
- Experience in effective management and monitoring of 3rd party compliance risks.
- Experience on project management or central team’s management support (e.g. on a chief of staff type of role)
- Strong reputation for integrity.
- Focus on internal customers’ needs, ability to provide practical recommendations and solutions.
Skills
- Solid influencing and interpersonal skills in a matrix organization.
- Good problem-solving skills, resilience, and logical thinking, ability to evaluate and simplify complex issues.
- Ability to exercise good and independent judgment.
- Managerial courage – ability to raise potentially sensitive and tense issues when needed to all levels of managers.
- Awareness of the current broader ethical agenda including sustainability, social responsibility, etc.
- Fluent in English. Proficiency in Spanish, Arabic or French is an advantage.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate to all levels in the company.
Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. We are intentional in employing the best talent that reflects the demographics of our country and which will help build representation of currently under-represented groups. We therefore invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.
We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in NIgeria. If you are applying as a foreign national, please note that you may be requested to provide supporting documents supporting.
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.
