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Sr. Manager Food Safety Culture

City: Evansville

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.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

The Senior Manager, Food Safety Culture is responsible for developing, leading, and sustaining a strong, enterprise-wide food safety culture. This role champions mindset behavior, and capability improvements across the organization to ensure that food safety is deeply embedded in daily operations, decision-making, and leadership practices. The Senior Manager partners closely with Quality, Operations, HR, R&D, Procurement, and senior leadership to drive cultural maturity, enable consistent global expectations, and ensure frontline engagement.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year global Food Safety Culture strategy aligned to corporate Quality & Food Safety priorities.
• Define the organization’s Food Safety Culture framework, maturity model, and metrics.
• Partner with senior leaders to embed food safety expectations into company values, leadership behaviors, and performance objectives.
• Serve as the subject-matter expert on food safety culture science, behavioral change, and organizational psychology as it relates to food safety.
• Strengthen site-level ownership through coaching, workshops, and capability-building initiatives.
• Develop materials and communication campaigns that reinforce key behaviors and drive cultural consistency.
• Design and deliver food safety culture training, learning pathways, and behavioral tools for all levels-from frontline to executives.
• Create recognition and incentive programs to celebrate best practices and promote a positive food safety mindset.
• Lead recurring culture maturity assessments across manufacturing sites, R&D, and supply chain partners.
• Develop KPI dashboards and reporting mechanisms to measure mindset, behavior, and performance outcomes.
• Analyze trends and partner with sites to close culture gaps through targeted action plans.
• Benchmark internally and externally to ensure the organization maintains industry-leading culture standards.
• Collaborate with Quality Teams, Operations, R&D, Procurement, HR, Learning & Development, and Communications teams.
• Support integration of food safety culture expectations into onboarding, leadership development, and operations excellence programs.
• Engage with suppliers, co-manufacturers, and external partners to ensure alignment with the company’s food safety culture expectations.
• Support root-cause analysis and incident reviews with culture insights related to behavior, training, and environmental factors.
• Ensure compliance with global food safety standards

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Quality, Behavioral Science, Organizational Development, or related field.
• Master’s degree in Food Safety, Organizational Psychology, or related field, preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Food Safety, Quality Assurance, or Operational Excellence in the food or consumer goods industry.
• Proven experience leading large cultural, behavioral, or change-management initiatives.
• Strong knowledge food safety culture expectations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership presence.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, including executives and frontline employees.
• Certification in change management or leadership development, preferred.
• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle 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.

Salary Range

USD $140,000.00 - $210,000.00

Pay Transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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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