ESG Reporting Programme Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

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.

​Corporate Communications & External Affairs​

Our communications and external affairs team are at the very heart of Reckitt's brand, purpose and products, bringing them to life around the globe for our employees, consumers, investors, governments and our suppliers.

It's a rewarding task, growing and protecting Reckitt's image and brand. Every day, we design public relations and communication strategies that build awareness, trust and relationships, while steering us away from reputational risk. We do this by gathering and maintaining knowledge of our policies, principles, and business strategies, while keeping up-to-date with relevant developments right across our business units and trusted brands.

From digital, media and events to employee experience, strategic relationships, and community partners, we identify opportunities to deliver on our business and sustainability agenda, while proactively identifying storylines and opportunities to advance our narrative.

About the role

Reckitt’s Sustainability Reporting & Communications team is responsible for producing Reckitt’s sustainability disclosures and communications at a group level. The ESG Reporting Programme Manager is a key member of the team, contributing significantly to our reporting endeavours, meeting current and future reporting requirements with the provision of programme management expertise. The role has responsibility for driving all project management activities relating to ESG reporting preparations in accordance with current and future disclosure requirements. You will uphold and maintain the programme standards by managing project plans and supporting the project team to identify and manage risks, changes and opportunities.

Your responsibilities

To drive and lead all project management activities for CRSD reporting preparations for in time and in budget project delivery: 

• Work closely with the programme workstreams to collaborate across cross-functional teams to create and subsequently drive the project plan delivery 
• Align the sequence of activities required to deliver key milestones 
• Work with the teams to identify key dependencies within and external to the programme, ensuring these are baked into the plan, communicated to wider programme stakeholders, and managed on a day-to-day basis to ensure they are met / flagging where there is risk of non-delivery 
• Scope and lead workshops / provide updates and presentation materials to governance forums to enable decision making 
• Establish communication strategies to keep stakeholders informed and aligned on goals 
• Scenario planning: for example analyse impact of change of scope on project timeline and budget 
• Collaborating with the finance lead on updating project costs and highlighting concerns 
• Proactive risk & issue management 
• Tracking of key actions and proactive driving of these to closure 
• Weekly progress vs. plan status reporting 
• Coordinate the set-up of Steercos and/or programme leadership meetings required at key decision points 
• Work as the connector between the reporting team and the IT&D workstream delivering the ESG reporting tool, ensuring that disclosure needs and ambitions are incorporated into development and that key milestones are delivered to implementation plan. 
• Support the reporting team with ESG assurance programme organisation

The experience we're looking for

• Project management experience, ideally of large-scale transformation programmes that span functions 
• Understanding of data, technical terminology and planning tools, preferably relating to ESG 
• Proven analytical abilities and attention to detail 
• Project delivery experience using hybrid agile methodology, conversant with approaches like Scrum, Kanban etc and using JIRA as delivery management tool 
• Ability to see bigger picture and identify interdependencies within and across workstreams 
• MS Project experience and PMP/Prince2 certified 
• Strong project management experience with proven analytical abilities and attention to detail 
• Excellent communications and stakeholder engagement skills 
• Experience of working across all levels of the business, managing stakeholders with competing priorities 

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.