Automation Consultant

**Company Profile**:
At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Surf.

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts.

**About the Vision**:
Run by Unilever, the Employee Experience (EX) Operational Hubs support the markets by delivering responsive and efficient operational excellence, leveraging automation, innovation & continuous improvement. To create an operational Powerhouse for Employee Experience Organization by centralizing capabilities, skills and process automation to unlock capacity for the in-market teams across the market clusters and provide opportunities to improve Employee Experience for our teams and customers.

**About the team**:
The Hub Optimization team acts as the Centre of Excellence to drive the digital and automation transformation path for the Employee experience (EX) e2e Journeys for Europe, UKI & NAMETRUB.

**Job Purpose**:
**Responsibilities**:
You will be a key part of a diverse and strategically important team that prides itself to provide innovative solutions in high-profile, complex projects on behalf of our clients and to bring inventive new approaches to our services and existing ways of working. Working alongside colleagues from the wider Europe, UKI & NAMETRUB Regions Your responsibilities will be, but not limited to the following: - Architect solution options to reimagine processes to achieve business value, eliminate waste & automate our ways of working using RPA, low code automation, cloud architecture & programmatic automation - Work with assessment and delivery teams to translate process solution options into delivery plans, and support or enable delivery where appropriate - Work with stakeholders at all levels including senior stakeholders in Europe, UKI, NAMETRUB, Product system owners, business users and functional / technical experts, process architects, Program managers & BI Engineers. - Drive & devise alongside Hub Program Lead the EX-Hub transformational road map to transform all our EX-Journeys - Solution architecture required to deliver end to end hyper-automation solutions (i.e. integration, networking and infrastructure background) - Business case definition & input to capex/opex costs for business case drafting - Work alongside BI engineers/data analysts to translate process data into process inefficiency insights and root causes to support Business case hypothesis.

**Job Requirements**:
Educational& Job Qualifications
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information systems or another related field
- Proven track record of not less than 8-10 years in delivering automation projects, from pilot through to enterprise scaled programmers.
- Demonstrated experience in ERP systems (Service now, Oracle, SAP) process automation or consulting.
- Demonstrated delivery experience of the main technologies such as RPA, low code automation, cloud architecture & programmatic automation
- Extended client facing consulting experience in a recognized consulting business or within a consulting function in the industry.
- Strong Business analysis skills, proficiency in constructing product backlogs and technical user story writing
- The ability to design an automation strategic roadmap, identify opportunities for automation and generate supporting quantitative business cases.
- Solution architecture required to deliver end to end hyper-automation solutions (i.e. integration, networking and infrastructure background)

Technical Qualifications
- Fluency in English Language (written and spoken)
- Waterfall Certifications: PMP or PRINCE 2 is a must
- Agile Certifications: CSM or PMI - ACP Certificates are a must
- Agile Certifications: Leading SAFe certificate is a plus
- Service now, Oracle, SAP Certified is a plus
- UI Path Certificate is a plus
- TOGAF, AWS certificates are a plus

Behavioral Qualifications
- Excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to interact with business functions as well as IT.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts to a broad range of audiences in a simple way and the incorporation of automation technologies into wider solutions
- An up-to-date view of major trends within AI and automation