Digital Application lead

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.

​Manufacturing​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

The purpose of the job is to spearhead the adoption of digital technologies to enhance manufacturing processes and results. Serve as manufacturing business owner for the implementation, deployment and optimization of digital applications, execution systems, IoT, and digital technologies within the production workflows, to further build digital capabilities that enable performance and efficiencies improvement in the manufacturing global network. The scope of the job is across BUs and across international locations.

Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and assess manufacturing requirements, working closely with IT & Development (IT&D) to enhance system functionalities and maximize global operational impact.
• Define and align manufacturing processes with global digital systems and applications to ensure seamless integration.
• Develop and implement strategies as a Global Lead, maintaining high quality standards throughout.
• Act as a business owner, gathering inputs from manufacturing stakeholders to formulate concrete system and application proposals.
• Review project plans, resource allocation, and performance alignment with IT&D and Manufacturing, ensuring consistency with organizational goals.
• Coordinate and lead training initiatives with IT&D and Supply Training and Capabilities, monitor system performance, and promote continuous improvement for operational efficiency.
• Stay informed on industry trends to advance manufacturing capabilities.

Also you will get to.....

• Develop a multi-year digital application strategy in collaboration with Business Units (BUs), Global Manufacturing Teams, and IT&D, aiding sites in creating local plans.
• Enhance digital application and system capabilities within the manufacturing organization through academies, workshops, and assessments.
• Conduct comprehensive diagnostics on Reliability, Process Stability (R-PS) maturity, outcomes, and benefits.
• Utilize external and internal benchmarking to facilitate knowledge sharing across sites and regions.
• Lead a community of practice focused on digital applications to address specific challenges and drive optimization.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication to ensure smooth transformation processes.
• Assess business impact and investment needs, monitoring project budgets in collaboration with stakeholders and financial control team

Typical connects are with Site Directors, IT&D in Factories, Global IT&D teams, CI/R-PS leaders, Operational Managers Global Quality, Global Safety and Health, Global Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence,  SVP Supply Leads, IoT Suppliers, Data Analysts.

To align required functionalities, priorities, roll out plan, benefits, get support to remove barriers, resources allocation, and sync timelines with other initiatives in the Supply Chain and other functions.
 

The experience we're looking for

•  Proven experience as manufacturing functional owner on digitalization projects, for example: MES, SAP, production tasks automation, automatic data collection and reporting, real time monitoring and control, paperless and tasks reduction, AGVs, robotic systems, AR/VR technologies, collaborative tools, digital factory.
• Competent in implementation strategies, project planning, roll out plans, vertical start up.
• Understand business drivers and able to balance between short- and long-term objectives. 
• Competent in training and developing training materials at all levels of the manufacturing organization. 
• Comfortable in creating communication materials for senior leaders to facilitate governance and decision making.
• Excellent influencing skills required.
• Confident challenging senior directors to ensure successful impact and sustainability of Digital Solutions.

The skills for success

• Degree in Engineering or comparable, studies in Control & Automation or similar is a plus. 
• Minimum of 10 years progressively more responsible experience in manufacturing operations and project management leadership roles
• Must be a recognized and ambitious leader in the company with strong background in improving operational efficiency.
• Passion for results and efficiency driven digitalization and automation.

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.