Unilever Future Leaders Programme - Supply Chain & Procurement NL

Unilever Future Leaders Programme (UFLP) – Supply Chain & Procurement (Netherlands)

Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you. This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever’s Future Leaders (UFL) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles.

The Unilever Future Leaders Programme, or as we call it “UFLP”, is a 3-year traineeship programme that gives you the opportunity to develop yourself into an experienced future-fit professional. Bring your enthusiasm, curiosity and innovative ideas to the table and start your learning journey at Unilever as a UFLP.

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) businesses. We reach 3.4 billion consumers a day and we have 128,000 employees globally.

What will you be doing as a Supply Chain & Procurement UFL?

The Unilever Supply Chain and Procurement program involves everything from buying the raw materials to delivering a finished product to a customer.

You could be responsible for setting up the supply chain network for a product innovation or designing a more efficient distribution network to enable us to store and deliver our products more sustainably to our customers.

In another rotation, you could be joining Procurement. You could be buying eggs and vegetable oils with the right agreements for workers and Unilever, understanding brand needs to bring supplier innovations, drive financial value through competitive buying, building expertise in sourcing the most sustainable packaging materials, and working on regenerative agriculture and plastic sustainability. Furthermore, it is about optimizing the cost and quality of what we buy through the intelligent sourcing of materials, packaging and non-production items. The team explores new ways of working with suppliers and plays an important role in technology innovation.

When you work at Unilever you will have the opportunity to make a big impact every day on a local, regional, and global level. There is always a new challenge to take on. The limitless opportunities at Unilever ask for your innovative entrepreneurship. For example, in one rotation you could be working on the launch of a new food product, you will be the one that is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain activities such as ensuring all plan, source, make and deliver activities are completed in time in full. You would collaborate with all departments involved in such a project.

You could also be building partnerships with a wide range of our customers, which may include supermarkets, drug stores, discounters, online retailers and even theme parks. You will be managing the customer relationship, represent Unilever SC to the customer, and work on structural improvement projects and innovations in the SC together with our customers.

Overall, joining Unilever as a Supply Chain & Procurement UFL will empower you to make a significant impact while embracing limitless opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Every day will present a new challenge, enabling you to shape the future of supply chain management at a global level.

What do we look for?

Whichever area you work in – Planning, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Logistics, Innovation or Procurement – you’ll need to be ambitious, an excellent analytical thinker with a drive for getting things done and a real talent for delivering through others. While we are open to applications from all disciplines, typically (but not exclusively) a technical education or background in Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, Science or Math’s can be an advantage.

What will the programme involve?

The programme is designed to give you the ability to grow. You will develop your individual leadership skills by working on projects which offer you the experience you need to be ready for your first management role. Over 3 years, you will take on a variety of roles across our businesses.

• You will cover rotations in several parts of our Supply Chain organization to build a broad understanding and experience as Supply Chain professional. This can be in the local Go-to-Market organization, in a Sourcing Unit, or one of our biggest global Procurement hubs in Rotterdam where you will work with colleagues all around the world to source ingredients, packaging, raw materials or services that Unilever buys.

• Your rotations could be based at different business units across Europe, and you will need to be flexible about where you are based during your time in the programme.

• Support and empowerment: We will support you every step of the way to senior management, but much of your progress will be up to you. You will need to be focused and ambitious to get where you want, find opportunities and take responsibility for your own development. You will be linked to a mentor, who is a senior SC leader, who can support and advise you.

• During the three years of your programme, you will be learning and developing in the rotations you will be doing, having real responsibility and impact. This development is supported with a learning roadmap full of internal and external training focused on developing your individual leadership skills.

• We have a proven tradition of developing our own purpose driven leaders and encourage innovative thinking. Future focused feedback and challenging goals drives innovation and ambition within a performance culture and an inclusive and informal environment. First-hand experience – it’s the fastest way to learn. We will push and support you to achieve your potential, whilst giving you the chance to shape your career path according to your interests, strengths, and ambitions.

Requirements

• Eligibility to work in the Netherlands is a must before the employment start date of the UFLP programme on the 1st of September 2026.

• You have obtained your Master’s degree at the start date of the UFLP per 1st of September 2026.

• A WO master’s degree is required at the beginning of the Supply Chain & Procurement track.

• Fluency in English language is a must.

• Intermediate Level of Dutch is preferred but not required.

• We recommend that you only apply with a maximum of 5 years of experience to get the best out of the UFLP.

• Search year/Orientation year visa is not accepted. Unilever cannot support the request for a visa in any form (R&D talents, EU nationals, and candidates with asylum residence permits, are excepted from this requirement).

What can Unilever offer you?

• 30 company-paid holidays, excluding public holidays

• A company pension scheme with a low pension contribution of 3%

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Multiple job rotations based on your track and learning needs

• Personal and functional learning and support along the way

• Share scheme

• Home working allowance

• My Fitness Plan (deduction on your Fitness Subscription)

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green mobility policy

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products