Reckitt Benckiser

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Marketing

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands.

Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society.

With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams.

With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

In this unique role, you’ll support development and growth of Reckitt UK Health brand portfolio. Supporting the team at the front line of strategic execution and at the centre of product delivery, you will manage projects from concept to market activation. This will cover new product development and existing product development for renowned brands, with the opportunity to work cross functionally in a global environment

Your responsibilities

• Manage Local Hero products in Health and EU Local Initiative innovation projects, ensuring projects are executed in a timely, efficient and agile manner in line with our operational model and best practices.
• Lead cross functional teams through projects from concept to in-market activation.
• Be the single point of contact between third parties and the development team.
• Work with the development team to understand capabilities of third parties, ensuring requirements across R&D, Safety, Compliance and Quality are met, including substantiating Medical and Regulatory requirements for bringing a product to market.
• Manage critical path from project initiation to launch, ensuring the team is on track to deliver to the UK launch approval process.
• Flag issues and risks to mitigate and implement contingency plans if need.
• Carry out rigorous project reviews to ensure learnings are captured and utilised for subsequent projects.
• Manage the budget for the Hub project costs, working closely with the Hub Manager to ensure all projects are delivered within budget.

The experience we're looking for

• Proven Project Management experience within an R&D or innovation environment, skilled in PM tools and software.
• Knowledge of innovation development within a cross-functional, international, and multi-cultural environment.
• Results oriented with the ability to evaluate and take balanced risks.
• Confident communication skills with the capability to build strong working relationships both internally and with third parties.
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and re-prioritise effectively.
• Confident in presenting to stakeholders of varying levels, with the ability to translate technical information to non-technical colleagues.
• Good understanding of market, consumers & competition in the FMCG products arena.

The skills for success

Project Management, New Product Development Management, New Product Development, MS Office, Communication Skills, Working With Third Parties, Vendor Management, Presentation Skills, Commercial Acumen, Consumer Health Experience, FMCG Experience, FMCG Project Management, Health Project Management, Budget Management, Risk Mitigation, Innovation, Organisational skills.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.