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Reward Lead MENAP

City: Dubai

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.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Embark on a rewarding journey as the Reward Lead with Reckitt. Craft the blueprint for comprehensive reward programmes across a vast market or a set of markets, nurturing an environment where excellence is recognised and rewarded. Reporting to the Senior Reward Manager, this role oversees all reward activities across the region (Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan), including annual compensation cycles, market benchmarking, and budgeting. Serves as the primary reward business partner, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring alignment with global policies and regional business priorities.

Your responsibilities

Lead annual compensation and performance cycles, including pay-for-performance reviews, bonus programs, and related processes.
Advise and partner with HR teams and business leaders on reward strategies, policies, and best practices.
Monitor market trends and regulatory changes to ensure competitive and compliant compensation and benefits offerings.
Develop and maintain salary structures aligned with organizational guidelines and market benchmarks.
Manage international mobility programs, including transfer offers and global benefit providers (e.g., medical, pension, mobility services).
Oversee relationships with key reward service providers to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
Drive regional and global reward projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Review and approve exception cases such as retention bonuses, sign-on incentives, and salary adjustments.
Evaluate job grading and advise on internal banding structures to maintain consistency and equity.
Provide data-driven insights and ad-hoc analysis to support decision-making.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
5 years of experience in Reward, Compensation & Benefits, or a related HR discipline.
FMCG or multinational experience highly preferred.
Exposure to regional reward practices; knowledge of Middle East markets essential. Familiarity with Egypt and/or Pakistan is an advantage.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.
Proactive mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to influence and partner effectively with stakeholders across regions.

The skills for success

Compensation & Benefits, Execute plans, Data and Analytics, Courageous leadership, Change management, Reward management, Total Rewards, Commercial accumen, Storytelling; Data led storytelling, Strategic mindset, Data and Analytics.

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.

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