Business Process Leader - Raw Materials

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 R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

Business Process Leader - Raw Materials

Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire

Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package 

This is a transformational leadership role. You will deliver an enduring positive change in the way in which R&D develops and delivers new products and the way the wider organization supports these product pre and post product launch. Working across Health and Hygiene, you will play a lead role in defining and managing the end-to-end business process for raw materials, from their creation to their retirement.

You will develop and deliver the process by which our raw materials portfolio is documented, optimized, and managed. To do so, you will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders, setting up and managing a cross functional community of practice which will include colleagues from Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety Assurance, Regulatory, Sustainability and R&D Health and Hygiene, amongst other functions. You will be part of a core team that will define the overall blueprint for Product Data Management and its subsequent implementation in the PLM solution.

Without this corner stone role, along with the Product and Packaging Business Process Lead roles, the other Business Proceed Lead roles will be ineffective and not make the significant benefits this business case promises to deliver.

Your responsibilities

• Provide transformational leadership to achieve a standardized, end-to-end Materials Management process across Health and Hygiene and own this process.
• Identify the key intersection points with other processes and ensure that these interfaces are managed efficiently, data integrity is maintained, and roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood.
• Compose formal documentation to capture the Raw Materials Management process and associated parts.
• Working closely with the MDG team, identify the Data Quality Standards for the data that is created and exchanged as part of this process.
• Define the Roles and Responsibilities associated with the ‘To-be’ process, identifying where these roles already exist and where new Roles will need to be created.
• Build and maintain a collaborative, cross-functional Material Management Community of Practice (MM CoP) who have sufficient knowledge, credibility and authority to input, endorse and support implementation of the ‘to-be’ Materials Management process and its associated parts.

The experience we're looking for

• Good degree in a relevant technical discipline.
• Previous experience of leading teams and line management
• Advanced communication, influencing and interpersonal skills with the ability to operate successfully in various team capacities and a multi-cultural environment, at senior levels and with external partners.
• Proven track record in defining and delivering change projects.
• Strong IT literacy with proficiency in the use of the MS Office product suite.
• Self-motivated with strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks under pressure.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of corporate codes of conduct.
• A good understanding of the product lifecycle and of regulations impacting the FMCG sector.

The skills for success

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.