Senior HR Busines Partner / Head of HR, Essential Home for DACH / Nordics

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.

ESSENTIAL HOME

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. 

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang and Calgon, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

​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

Reckitt is looking for a dynamic and experienced Head of HR to join our Essential Home business. In this pivotal role, you’ll provide strategic HR leadership across a wide range of topics – from talent attraction and transformation to labour relations and people cost management – in a startup-like, fast-paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to shape a new organisation, drive key people initiatives and make a lasting impact. If you’re passionate about people, business transformation and navigating complexity with a hands-on mindset, we’d love for you to grow with us.

Your responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR guidance across all areas including talent attraction, employee engagement, labour relations, rewards & benefits, and organisational development for our Essential Home business in DACH & Nordics
• Lead and implement HR transformation projects in a fast-changing, agile setup
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align on HR strategy and business priorities
• Ensure compliance with global HR policies and local labour laws across multiple European markets
• Manage people costs and workforce planning with a focus on lean organisational structures
• Drive employee transition and separation processes in close collaboration with Legal, Finance and Business
• Build strong relationships across the business and foster a culture of performance and development

The experience we're looking for

• More than 5 years of senior HR experience, ideally as an HR Business Partner or in a similar leadership role
• Proven track record in managing complex transformations and organisational change
• In-depth knowledge of labour law and hands-on experience in labour relations, including collective bargaining in European markets
• Expertise in people cost management and organisational design
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity
• Fluent in English and German

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.