Global Marketing Manager - MENARP & Africa

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.

​Category Growth Organisation​

Category Growth Organization 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 Ramp;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 Category Growth Organization Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

Global Marketing Manager plays a key role in developing the overall category strategy and global innovation pipeline, with a focus on MENARP & Africa. Interacts, internally, with the Consumer & Insights, R&D, Shopper Marketing, Finance and Country Marketing teams to lead the development of the Innovation pipeline and to guide the Global team structures to bring it to market. Also influence the country teams to participate to scale innovation platforms across the Globe.

Work closely with Regulatory and Legal teams to ensure portfolio readiness for today and future.

Your responsibilities

• To develop, recommend, and lead the strategy and innovation workstreams for delivering future growth of brand segment.
• Create segment level innovation plans basis strong consumer understanding
• Develop the initiative with R&D and CMI by creating product and positioning plans and testing with consumers to develop a fully validated pipeline
• NPDs/EPDs 
  • Draw up and deploy the Product Development brief in conjunction with Category (Global) R&D, Supply, Sales and Finance functions. 
  • Regularly survey and understand consumer, market environment to understand trends capture ideas and develop concepts which lead to product development (supported by Consumer & Market Insights team)
  • Coordinate with market teams on brand learnings, new projects, market understanding 
  • Ensure timely and within cost development of products as per the brief 
  • Ensure successful Launch to country/market teams
• Identify and implement profit enhancing ideas on the brand 
  • To manage a brand within the context of the agreed strategies to maximize long term profitability   
• To initiate and manage market research projects to deliver powerful consumer and customer insights as the basis for long term brand growth. Develop these insights into achievable innovation plans 

The experience we're looking for

• Min 10 Years of relevant experience
• Able to demonstrate outstanding marketing skills (brand building, brand activation, digital marketing & product sustainability) and potential, developed within an FMCG environment 
• Proficient in consumer insights and analytics, with a talent for turning data into creative strategy. 
• Thorough knowledge of the sales & marketing processes and has a strong commercial awareness, P & L management and a collaborative spirit.
• Ability to communicate captivating brand stories and drive marketing innovation. 
• MBA degree in Marketing & Sales is preferred.

The skills for success

Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Product sustainability, NEW Product Development, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimisation, Digital Marketing, Brand activation, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, P&L management.

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.