Register Your Interest - Creative Design Degree Apprenticeship

Register Your Interest - Creative Design Degree Apprenticeship

Your Future Employer

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Beauty and Wellbeing, Home, and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 3.4 billion consumers daily. Founded in Port Sunlight (Wirral) in 1929 by Lord Lever, Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, TRESemmé, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Hellman’s, Persil, Domestos, Marmite, Wild, Graze, Vaseline, Sure, Colman’s and Pot Noodle.  

Our goal is to deliver best-in-class performance with market making, unmissably superior brands. From our earliest days Unilever has been at the forefront of change always striving towards making a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘Brightening everyday life for all’.

What is the job?

Why not accelerate your career with a Creative Design apprenticeship at Unilever?  As a Creative Design Professional in Research & Development, you will be part of the Global Packaging Design team and you will also have scope to support the wider R&D community. You will be working alongside experts in packaging and design to define, design, and validate new product innovations. You will have the opportunity to develop skills such as Design Research, 3D Product Design, Design Engineering & Graphic Design, while achieving a BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Design.

Working under the guidance of a dedicated line manager, you will gain the technical knowledge and skills you need to succeed through a combination of real, practical experience and formal training. You can expect on-the-job training, formal development opportunities and dedicated mentoring.    

What do we look for?

• Have a strong sense of creativity and have a keen aesthetic eye
• A good level of hand sketching / rendering / visualisation skills would be beneficial
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Good communication skills (verbal and written) 

What could your day to day look like?

As a Creative Design Professional in Research & Development, you will be part of the Global packaging design team but will also have scope to aid the wider R&D community in defining, designing and validating new product innovations. You will have the opportunity to develop skills such as Design Research, 3D Product Design, Design Engineering & Graphic Design. 

What can Unilever offer YOU? 

• A Competitive Salary of £18,841
• A pension Scheme
• A discounted staff shop
• Subsidised Gym Memberships
• Shares
• 25 days of holiday allowance 

Diversity at Unilever is about championing inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. To celebrate this, we have internal networks and communities created to raise awareness for a cause, which work to create change within the business. These networks include Proud, Empower, Enable and Unity and our communities include Thriving Parents, Carers and All Inclusion Club.  

 We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.   

We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes, and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.  

Duration  

3-4 Years 

Locations Available

Port Sunlight (Wirral)

Requirements 

Have 5 GCSEs including English Language and Maths at grade 5 or above. Have or are predicted a minimum of 3 A-levels or equivalent with grades of BBC or above including 2 STEM subjects (ideally one of which being related to Design & Technology or Product Design)  

Application Process:

Stage 1 - Complete the online application form and tell us about your motivation for choosing Unilever and your selected apprenticeship programme.

Stage 2 - Situational Judgment Test, which gives you realistic, hypothetical scenarios where you will be asked to identify the most appropriate response. You will also have a numerical and verbal reasoning test at this point.

Stage 3 – In-Person Discovery Centre, immersing yourself in business challenges and an interview.

Discovery Centre

Dates TBC for our 2025/26 recruitment cycle.

Closing date:  

Dates TBC for our 2025/26 recruitment.

If you have any questions about your application or if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to complete any part of the application process, please contact the Future Careers Team. If you would like to discuss any mitigating circumstances before making an application, please also contact the team using the following contact details:  

 Phone: 020 3650 2304 or e-mail: futurecareers.recruitment@unilever.com.  

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