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CDD - Rewards Manager FR (H/F)

City: Massy

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.

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

You will have primary responsibility for Reward & Benefits in France and support broader Western Europe as a key partner to the Western Europe Reward Lead. The role combines hands‑on operational expertise in the French tax, social security and labour environment with coordination and delivery of wider regional reward projects. You will design and update local programmes, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, lead annual processes and support global reward implementation across the cluster.

Your responsibilities

Act as subject‑matter expert on reward for France and Western Europe, covering compensation, benefits, incentives, profit sharing and statutory schemes
Lead the profit sharing (intéressement / participation) cycle in France, including annual negotiations and program redesign
Lead the Annual Pay Review for France and support harmonization of processes across Western Europe
Review and analyze market data, salary structures and benchmarking to ensure competitive and compliant compensation decisions
Provide expert guidance on French tax and social security implications, including taxable benefits and the inpatriate tax scheme
Manage and support international mobility cases, including fiscal assessments and validation of external provider documentation
Collaborate with Payroll & HR Operations to ensure accurate execution of reward processes and resolve operational issues
Participate in Work Council meetings; present reward topics, explain methodologies and support required changes
Support design and delivery of regional reward projects (e.g., benefits review, pay transparency preparation, alignment of mobility standards)
Ensure local adoption of global reward programs (Annual Pay Review, performance and pay frameworks, recognition)
Provide guidance to HRBPs, TA and Finance on reward matters, supporting decision‑making and process improvement
Operate with autonomy, proposing improvements, challenging existing processes and stabilizing areas impacted by recent HR transformation

The experience we're looking for

5–10+ years of experience in Reward / C&B
Previous exposure to the French reward environment (tax, social security, statutory requirements, Work Council interaction)
Experience leading profit-sharing processes and annual compensation review cycles
Experience in matrix, international organisations; FMCG preferred
Comfortable working hands-on and independently, with strong analytical capabilities and judgement. on and independently, with strong analytical capabilities and judgement
Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive process improvements
Fluent French – C2
Fluent English – C1

The skills for success

Compensation & Benefits, Execute plans, Data and Analytics, Courageous leadership, Change management, Reward management, Total Rewards, Commercial accumen, Storytelling; Data led storytelling, Strategic mindset, Data and Analytics.

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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