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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 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.
This position is responsible for driving Global Innovation for our Veet portfolio:
- Supports the development of the strategic 3yr plan and GSM with diagnostics and analysis.
- Support the development and validation of key innovation initiatives.
- Lead large scale project and work closely with functional teams to deliver projects until IP.
- This position is a 12 month fixed term contract
OVERALL:
- Key partner with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of innovation on time and to quality.
- Key partner for the CAP teams in the delivery of Innovation.
Strategy
- Supports the development of the strategic 3yr plan and GSPI with diagnostics and analysis.
- Supports masterplans per region to deliver sufficiency of innovation to deliver growth targets.
Innovation
- Align Innovation Priorities across Categories and Key CMUs via GSCs.
- Develop Concepts for Existing and New Products in line with innovation priorities.
- Set Product, Packaging, Claim and Pricing Strategy for all innovation.
- Lead and Develop ECOM first projects.
- Oversee Innovation Development and Stage-gate Approvals through to IP.
- Ensure Sustainability full embedded in all our innovations, sufficient to deliber category targets.
- I&A Validation – Reco and execute all consumer requirements (incl budgets) and action accordingly across multi markets (I&A).
Base Business Continuity
Drive the Productivity pipeline on product and packaging (GH Enhancement programs) from ideation to implementation.
Maintenance of base formulations and claims with respect to changing regulations or guidelines.
The experience we're looking for:
Marketing experience: must be able to demonstrate strong marketing skills developed within the FMCG environment.
- Good strategic thinking skills and ability to support the execution of brand strategy
- Performance management, commercial acumen, P&L understanding
- Ability to leverage data and analytics to uncover trends and insights that guide strategic decisions
Innovation Experience: must be able to demonstrate strong skills in innovation development and delivery
- Idea generation and validation
- Project delivery
- Cross-organisation leadership
Other Personal Attributes
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills
- Ability to work in a matrix organisation (CDO, MX, Sales, Key Lead Markets) - strong interpersonal skills, dealing with multiple stakeholders across different functions and levels of expertise
- Entrepreneurial and able to work autonomously
- Strong sense of urgency and achievement
- Resilient and able to respond under pressure
- Ability to influence and collaborate with markets with varying levels of portfolio and brand maturity
- The business language in Reckitt is English, therefore fluency in English is essential. Fluency in other language(s) is advantageous
