Unilever's Upwork program

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Welcome to Unilever’s Upwork program

Unilever decided to partner with Upwork so teams across the business can scale strategically on the world’s largest work marketplace.

Learn more about what’s available to you and your teams, including resources to support your next project.

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Questions? Connect with your dedicated team at unileverteam@upwork.com or schedule a call (North America team | EMEA/APAC team)

Why Upwork

Access highly skilled in-demand talent choosing to work independently
Scale up or down quickly to meet business demands
Get greater visibility into hiring, including ratings and reviews on past projects
Find and onboard talent faster and at a lower cost than traditional staffing

What your colleagues say about Upwork

"Upwork opens up all sorts of possibilities! Particularly if the talent you are after is not that obvious… they help you find suitable freelancers from all over the world for just about any challenge and even pre-screen them for you. There is also the possibility to enlist a great freelancer of choice with them, which is super simple to do."

Trish Rajo Brea | CMI Capabilities Lead, Unilever

Upwork helps Unilever save time and money

Upwork makes it easy to quickly complete projects with trusted independent professionals

Unilever results to date

1000+

Colleagues already registered on Upwork

2-3

Days to hire (avg)

4.92/5

Client satisfaction

2600+

Projects completed

How Unilever is getting work done on Upwork

Product Team Reimagines How They Expand Capacity & Capabilities

The Problem:

The Product team often found themselves short on the bandwidth and expertise needed to prioritize everything on their Backlog. When new opportunities, like creating a Disruptive Hydration Solution, came up – they needed more agile solutions to resource and bring new products and features to market.

The Solution:

The team leaned on Upwork Subject Matter Experts to augment their team of just 2 part-time FTEs to bring new solutions to life, including a plant based box, better concentrate caps, and hydration refill stations.

The Impact:

By accessing an insanely talented pool of both internal and external people, we achieved our ‘Be Better’ vision - Delivering a full brand ecosystem and a national launch, at a very low cost of $250k Euros in less than 4 months.

High-Impact Unilever Client Presentation

The Problem:

The Unilever team needed an expert presentation designer to create a 30-slide deck for Baby Dove for a high priority meeting on a short timeline.

The Solution:

The Upwork team helped shortlist several available graphic designers who specialize in high-visibility deliverables for F100 brands.

The Impact:

The slide deck was delivered ahead of schedule to be used for the team’s presentation to Walmart, and received rave reviews: “It went SO WELL!! They LOVED the presentation - as did senior leadership at Unilever. They all asked who designed it so I passed along your contact information.” - Kyle Marsh, Brand Manager | Unilever

Talent Spotlight

A few, top-rated vetted experts you can hire for your next project

Expert-vetted

Leila B.

Market Research, Marketing, Brand Dev. Expert

“Leila and her team are the absolute best to work with! Leila is so smart and thinks about things in such a unique way. I'm very happy with the outcome of our engagement together ... what more could I want?”

Expert-vetted

Ben T.

Creative Video Agency & Producer

“Ben and Sean are so talented in taking on the complexities of pulling off a video production, and editing the final piece together in a way that's professional, engaging and elevates our brand. We plan on working with them again soon, and would recommend them to any company - big or small!"

Expert-vetted

Jonathan D.

UX Designer

"Jonathan was super professional and worked around a tight deadline. He was able to take our requirements and run with the project without a ton of hand-holding. I'm excited to continue working with him on upcoming projects."

Upwork is a total talent solution for Unilever

Teams engage in different ways based on business needs

Source talent

Your colleagues come to Upwork to find, hire, and manage project contracts with independent talent, all while complying with applicable worker classification laws.

Bring your own talent

When teams already have pros they like to work with, they can bring that talent to Upwork. This lets them hire, pay, and manage those contracts in line with worker classification laws.

Large project support

For more complex projects, Upwork helps your colleagues build the right team of independent talent—and even get end-to-end project management support.