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Packaging PLM Senior Manager

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

You will be responsible for the compliance of all packaging material specifications across Health and Hygiene. 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 Core Reckitt, you will play a lead role in executing the end-to-end business process for packaging material specifications, from their creation to their retirement.

Location: Hybrid role, based in Hull, UK.

Hiring Manager: Doug Hutt

Closing Date: Friday 13th February 2026

Your responsibilities

Provide leadership to transform our packaging material specification portfolio.
Consolidate our packaging material specification portfolio, ensuring the business remove duplicates, increasing the number of cross-site PM specs where applicable, and broadening the range of our PM specs where appropriate, at all times ensuring they meet the holistic needs of our business.
In collaboration with the BPL-PM define a set of data quality standards for our Packaging material specification portfolio and raise the quality of our PM specs to meet these standards.
Define and Align KPIs to track our progress towards the goal of a PM spec portfolio reduced in size and of higher quality.
Working with the BPL-PM for guidance follow the process for PM specification management that is defined in our new operating model.
Work with Regional Packaging leaders to maintain a team of specification managers to support you in these activities that possess the distributed skill and knowledge set to cover our diverse set of Packaging materials and products in which they will be used.
Work with Procurement to ensure that our PM spec portfolio is developed whilst being mindful of the packaging materials and associated suppliers that our procurement organization is guiding us to.
Collaborate with and nurture good working relationships with our partner organizations who will provide input into specifications, namely regulatory, safety, quality, procurement, manufacturing and of course R&D Packaging development leadership team who will be Accountable for quality and continuous improvement of specifications written in their region.
Use Specification data to identify opportunities that drive value for Base business and collaborate to drive projects through to delivery through existing processes and Governance forums.

The experience we're looking for

Significant experience of leading large teams and line management, with the ability to influence areas with no direct reporting authority.
Strong communication, influencing, impact and interpersonal skills, the ability to operate successfully in various team capacities, a multi-cultural environment, at senior levels and with external partners.
Proven track record in leading, defining and delivering major global transformation projects.
Strong commercial awareness and understanding of corporate codes of conduct.
The business language is English, therefore fluency in English is essential and fluency in other languages advantageous.
A good understanding of the product lifecycle and of regulations impacting the FMCG sector.
Working knowledge as a practitioner in several of the following areas: procurement of packaging materials, identification of fit for purpose packaging material from suppliers, Packaging development, Specification Management, Packaging Material portfolio management, complexity reduction, Hand over to Manufacturing, Regulatory and Safety assessment as they apply to Packaging materials e.g. Reach.
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.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

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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