Head of Environmental Compliance

Head of Environmental Compliance, US

City:
Nutley

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.

Our communications and external affairs team are at the very heart of Reckitt's brand, purpose and products, bringing them to life around the globe for our employees, consumers, investors, governments and our suppliers.

It's a rewarding task, growing and protecting Reckitt's image and brand. Every day, we design public relations and communication strategies that build awareness, trust and relationships, while steering us away from reputational risk. We do this by gathering and maintaining knowledge of our policies, principles, and business strategies, while keeping up-to-date with relevant developments right across our business units and trusted brands.

From digital, media and events to employee experience, strategic relationships, and community partners, we identify opportunities to deliver on our business and sustainability agenda, while proactively identifying storylines and opportunities to advance our narrative.

This newly created North America regional role will be instrumental in driving our environmental and sustainability agenda across our supply sites. The role will translate strategy into action, initially ensuring compliance with all legislation within the geographies we operate and compliance with Reckitts standards. Partnering with Regional and Site Directors, you will review compliance status, advise on challenges and help develop and deliver the site environmental masterplans.

Your focus will be on delivering manufacturing locations that are compliant and building a future that supports our sustainability strategic agenda.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas and considering international movement at this time.

• Lead regional environmental strategy and execution, aligning manufacturing sites and R&D with Reckitt’s global environmental and sustainability objectives while championing environmental priorities across North America
• Ensure regulatory compliance and environmental risk management, overseeing adherence to applicable laws, leading risk assessments and incident response, and supporting sites to close audit findings on time
• Drive sustainability and impact programs, including initiatives to reduce water use, waste, carbon emissions, and packaging impact, while embedding eco‑design and circularity principles in partnership with Supply and Procurement
• Provide governance, reporting, and transparency for environmental KPIs and data systems, ensuring accurate tracking of initiatives and performance across sites
• Lead stakeholder engagement and team development, partnering with internal teams and regulators, representing Reckitt externally, and building high‑performing environmental teams with a culture of accountability and continuous improvement

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Engineering, Sustainability, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in environmental leadership within CPG or manufacturing industries.
• Deep understanding of environmental regulations and sustainability frameworks (e.g., EPA, CEPA, GHG Protocol).
• Experience environmental data systems.

• Strong passion for sustainability and environmental stewardship, with a clear understanding of how environmental practices integrate into manufacturing operations
• Proven execution and change management capability, able to translate strategy into pragmatic actions embedded in business processes
• Collaborative and influential communicator, skilled at engaging diverse stakeholders, adapting messages to different audiences, and building strong working relationships across cultures
• Resilient, adaptable, and self‑directed, comfortable working independently in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and…