Case Study: Unilever achieves 41% productivity improvement and rapid upskilling with Gloat's talent marketplace

How Unilever drives growth by unlocking skills and empowering teams with InnerMobility

Unilever, the 149,000‑employee consumer goods company, faced a large-scale reskilling and talent‑mobility challenge: equip its workforce with future‑fit skills, democratize career development, and rapidly redeploy people as business priorities shifted during COVID‑19. To accelerate this work and increase workforce visibility, Unilever partnered with Gloat and adopted Gloat’s Internal Talent Marketplace to power its purpose‑led upskilling and reskilling initiative.

Using Gloat’s talent marketplace to run its FLEX Experiences platform, Unilever piloted the marketplace with ~1,000 employees and then scaled it globally to match people to projects and gigs. The Gloat‑powered solution unlocked 500,000 hours, staffed over 700 people on critical projects in the first two months, improved productivity by 41%, delivered 80% rich profiles completed, 70% cross‑functional assignments, 62% female participation, and 60% cross‑country staffing—while also reducing time‑to‑hire and lowering attrition. Gloat helped Unilever democratize career development, boost agility, and surface internal talent for strategic redeployment.

Unilever

Jeroen Wels

Executive Vice President Human Resources