Thomas Mount
An international aspect
The graduate scheme provided experience of the business in the UK, India and Eastern Europe – where next?
Sept 2002
Seconded to India as Infrastructure Project Manager. It helped me to understand the business and experience a different culture.
Sept 2003
I initiated and led a project to understand how to adopt a European sales system into the UK business.
My proudest moment at Unilever
Seeing the impact of technology on people's ways of working, and ultimately their lives, gives me a great buzz – it shows IT has a critical role to play partnering the business.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Physics, University of Nottingham, UK
- IT Business Partnering course – modules 1 and 2
- Project Management qualification from PMI (Project Management Institution)
Interests
- New technology
- Cooking
Favourites
- The office in London. It's representative of the company – steeped in history, yet new and dynamic in its approach
- The free Unilever ice creams in the staff restaurant
- The Telepresence system – we can have conversations with our global colleagues as if we were across a table in the same room. It's seriously impressive!
Unilever people
Helen Toogood
Information Technology
"Speaking up for what I believe in."
