Global Brand Manager

City:
Slough

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.

As part of the Global Innovation team, this role supports the advancement of ourHair Removal portfolio, helping to develop and validate high‑impact innovation initiatives. Working closely with the Global Marketing Manager and cross‑functional teams, you will support projects from concept through to IP delivery.

In summary, you'll:

• Works with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of innovation on time and to quality.
• Supports the CAP teams in the delivery of Innovation.
• Supports the alignment of Innovation Priorities.
• Supports the setting of Product, Packaging, Claim, and Pricing Strategy for all innovation.
• Supports development of ECOM first projects.
• Supports Innovation Development and Stage-gate Approvals through to IP.
• Supports with ensuring sustainability fully embedded in all our innovations, sufficient to deliver category targets.
• Supports I&A Validation.
• Development of Master pack designs for EPDs and NPDs. Mandatory to come as a 4 languages compliant design.

• Supports the drive for a Productivity pipeline on product and packaging (GM Enhancement programs) from ideation to implementation.
• Supports the maintenance of base formulations and claims with respect to changing regulations or guidelines.

• Marketing experience:
  Exposure to marketing or FMCG environment preferred; interest in innovation and willingness to learn.
• Ability to leverage data and analytics to uncover trends and insights that guide strategic decisions.

• This role could ideal for someone early in their marketing career looking to gain experience in global brand coordination and innovation support.
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a matrix organisation (Marketing, Sales, Key Lead Markets for example) - 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 work 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.

Analytical skills, Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Product sustainability, NEW Product Development, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimisation, Brand activation, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience, Brand Management, eCommerce, Negotiation.

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…