Unilever YES Learnership 2025

Exciting opportunities await young South Africans as Unilever opens applications for the YES Learnership Programme 2025. This initiative is designed to empower unemployed youth by providing valuable workplace experience, practical training, and the chance to kick-start a meaningful career within one of the world’s leading fast-moving consumer goods companies. Through the YES Learnership, participants will gain hands-on exposure in various business areas, while developing essential skills that boost employability and future career growth.

Objective

The Unilever YES Programme is meant to provide participants with a meaningful work experience, skills development opportunities, and exposure to a professional environment as a stepping stone into the world of work.

Duties and responsibilities 

Participants will take on support responsibilities across different business functions. These responsibilities play a crucial role in ensuring the effective operation of the function and offer accelerated and practical work experience.

The different business functions are:

• Customer Development (CD): This function works with customers—such as major supermarkets—to ensure that outlets deliver optimal results for both Unilever and the customer. It focuses on building strong relationships and driving sales through effective collaboration and execution at the customer level.
• Cullinary: Help prepare product samples for customer demos and logistics of demo events, trade shows, customer meetings. You will get to support chefs with content creation for webinars and “how to” videos
• Marketing: Responsible for building brands, driving consumer engagement, and developing strategies to grow market share and brand equity.
• Supply Chain: Manages the end-to-end process of sourcing, manufacturing, and delivering products to customers.
• Human Resources (HR): Handles talent management, employee engagement, and organizational development.
• Finance: Oversees financial planning, analysis, reporting, and compliance.
• IT (Information Technology): Supports business operations with technology solutions and digital transformation.
• Mechanical Engineering: Work on engineering projects, and gain exposure to industry-leading manufacturing processes.
• Safety Health and Environment (SHE): Supports the site SHE Coordinator to implement systems to reduce Occupational Health and Safety risk by the creation and maintenance of an effective SHE management system.
• Communications: Manages internal and external communications, including corporate affairs and public relations.
• Learning & Rewards: Focuses on employee development, training, and compensation strategies.

Minimum Requirements:

• South African citizen, aged 18 – 34 years
• Currently unemployed and not studying full-time
• Completed Matric certificate (Grade 12)
• Relevant tertiary qualifications will be advantageous
• Should not have more than 2 years’ work experience
• Commitment to the 12-month programme
• Must not have completed a YES Programme previously
• Willingness to learn and grow in a professional environment
• A strong academic record
• Strong computer literacy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good time management
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• A positive attitude

Location: South Africa

How to Apply

Apply here online for Unilever YES Learnership 2025

Closing date: 30 August 2025