Founded
1929
Employees
128,000+
Revenue
$63B (FY2024)
HQ
London
Organisational Structure
Unilever collapsed its dual-listed structure (UK/Netherlands) into a single UK-headquartered company in 2020. The org is now built around five Business Groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition, and Ice Cream. The 2024 announcement to separate Ice Cream (including Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Wall's) signals further simplification. Like P&G, the matrix runs across business groups and geographic operating units.
Senior Leadership Roles
These are the senior executive positions that form the top of the Unilever org chart. For executive search firms mapping this organisation, these roles represent the primary reporting line to the board.
Business Divisions
Unilever is organised into 5major divisions. Each division represents a distinct business area with its own leadership, strategy, and — in many cases — its own P&L.
Beauty & Wellbeing (Dove, TRESemmé, Vaseline)
Personal Care (Axe/Lynx, Rexona/Sure)
Home Care (Domestos, Persil/OMO, Cif)
Nutrition (Knorr, Hellmann's)
Ice Cream (Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Wall's) — pending separation
Why Unilever's Org Chart Is Complex
For executive search firms and consultants mapping Unilever, understanding these structural complexities is essential for building an accurate org chart and identifying the right stakeholders.
Post-unification org still carries complexity from the former dual-listed Anglo-Dutch structure
Ice Cream separation creates a carve-out org design challenge affecting 8,000+ employees
400+ brands across five business groups with individual brand teams
Operations across 190+ countries with significant emerging market management layers
How to Map Unilever's Org Chart
Building a complete org chart for Unilever requires combining data from multiple sources: annual reports and proxy statements for the top-level structure, LinkedIn for middle-management layers, and industry knowledge to fill in the gaps.
Because Unilever uses a matrix structure, your org chart will need to show both solid-line and dotted-line reporting relationships. This means a simple hierarchical tree will not capture the full picture.
With OrgBrief, you can upload a CSV of known employees, map the available fields, review inferred reporting lines and export a structured chart. Confidence indicators show where the source needs a human check.
Turn your Unilever research into a client chart
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