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PLM Programme Lead

City: Kingston upon Hull

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

PLM will transform the way that Reckitt operates, across business units and across functions. The purpose of PLM is to radically transform the way Reckitt hold and manage data within Health and Hygiene, ranging from the technological systems we will use, to how we define an item and how we use it. PLM will bring together global R & D, procurement, supply and marketing to speak the same language, use one source of truth, aid strategic business decision making and make multi-million-pound savings.

In this role as the Programme Lead you will oversee and manage the major activities across the programme, ensuring we deliver on our agreed targets and scope.

Your responsibilities

Be a member of the PLM core Leadership Team.
Ensure programme objectives, deliverables, scope, risks, plan, dependencies and budget are defined and agreed (with accountability) through programme governance and tracked and managed thereafter.
Attend and contribute to reporting forums for PLM programme management.
Ensure governance structure is defined, agreed and followed for the programme. Manage timetable and agendas. Assign, capture and follow up actions, issue minutes and ensure robust, accessible documentation.
Ensure R&R for the programme are maintained through the course of the programme.
Provide updates on programme status on a timetable agreed through governance and associated stakeholders and groups.
Work with Finance and IT&D programme leader counterpart to ensure cost centres are set up and managed to ensure forecasting, resource allocation and transfers are managed and budget discipline maintained.
Hold PLM team members accountable for delivery for their areas of ownership as defined and agreed in plan with timely escalation through governance and/or line delivery of plan appears to be at risk.
Inform and engage senior groups to create alignment, secure resource and dial up engagement
Work as an escalation point for issues and risks
Link together other workstreams functions and departments to ensure project delivery
Oversee preparation for tollgates/checkpoints and steer through their successful delivery
Maintain and report resource view to ensure projects remain on track
Lead the preparation of any programme audits and steer to successful conclusions.
Ensure programme compliance with internal and external requirements e.g. GxP.

The experience we're looking for

PMO experience (with at least 1 year operating at A Band in a PMO role) applying programme management toolset such as Project planning, milestone management, critical path identification, dependency mapping, Resource planning, Stakeholder Management, Budget management, KPI definition and tracking, RAID logs etc.
R&D/Supply experience with at least half of that working in Reckitt’s R&D organisation.
Hull based with hybrid working requiring at least 3 days per week in Hull office.

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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