We are eager to be judged on results. It’s not just about placing an ad or even filling a particular job: we want to make a positive contribution to the achievement of clients’ own wider business objectives. In this exercise for Unilever, a very big strategic decision triggered a recruitment need of immense complexity and urgency. As with most of our work for Unilever, close partnership and teamwork have delivered genuinely business-critical results.
Building the team
Unilever’s Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) would be the focus of the new investment. SEAC was already an influential and highly regarded team within the business, involved in every product that Unilever brought to market and engaged with advanced
technologies from genomics to proteomics. SEAC’s brief is to minimise risks to consumers, employees and environment: with the wholesale migration to technology-led product testing, their responsibility and influence was set to increase substantially.
Over twenty scientists
The recruitment requirement was big, urgent and complex. SEAC needed to fill over twenty advanced scientific and technical roles, from toxicologists and risk assessors to computer modellers and decision analysts.
