Executive Search 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.

Global Talent Acquisition

Our Global Talent Acquisition Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life, through our efforts in attracting and retaining top diverse talent. 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 Global Talent Acquisition, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our global TA 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

As the Executive Search Lead at Reckitt, you will embark on a transformative career path where you'll play an influential role in shaping our workforce. Your expertise will be pivotal in sculpting the talent landscape to ensure a bright future for Reckitt. In this role, you'll be the cornerstone of global talent acquisition, leveraging your insights to attract and retain the best professionals into the Senior Leadership team (SMT) globally while encouraging diversity and nourishing an exceptional candidate experience. Become an ambassador for change, harnessing your skills to foster a thriving, inclusive workplace where every recruitment initiative echoes our commitment to progressive and energetic values.

Your responsibilities

In the role as Executive Search Lead, you will undertake end to end hiring for SMT hires globally, with a focus on Reckitt's top 450+ talents. You will work across Europe, US and Emerging Markets. Overarching responsibilities include:

 

• Engage and assess executive level candidates, leveraging strategic thinking and influencing skills to bring talent into the organization
• Robust experience in talent sourcing, management, and development of proactive recruitment channels for Senior Leadership Team (SMT) hires. 
• Competent in project management, with a talent for clear, influential stakeholder communication
• Aptitude for nurturing talent pipelines and leading a performance-driven team.
• Strong analytical skills for strategic decision-making and process enhancement.
• Demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity and shaping inclusive work environments; the ability to build gender diverse shortlists.
• Experience in storytelling; leveraging data, insights, external talent landscape knowledge to influence and drive hiring decisions.
• Innovating to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our systems and processes which will reduce time to hire, agency spend and enhance the overall candidate experience

The experience we're looking for

Proven track record managing full recruitment cycles for SMT hiring, aligning talent strategy with business growth. Core capabilities/experience/skills include:

 

• Robust experience in talent sourcing, management, and development of proactive recruitment channels for executive hiring (ideally across multiple functions/business units). 
• Seeking a collaborative team player, with experience maximising teams as well as individual performance. 
• Excellent domain expertise in executive search or executive talent acquisition.
• The ability to maintain a high level of personal accountability, integrity and authenticity
• A solution finder with a positive 'I/we can' attitude, willing to push the boundaries through business collaboration in order to deliver top diverse talent that will aid the business in achieving global objectives
• Competent in project management, with a talent for clear, influential stakeholder communication.
• Aptitude for nurturing talent pipelines and thriving within a performance-driven team.
• Demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity and shaping inclusive work environments.

The skills for success

Talent sourcing, Candidate experience, Courageous leadership, Data and Analytics, Execute plans, Talent assessment, Talent selection, Talent acquisition, Recruitment, Data and Analytics, Diversity and inclusion, Strategic mindset, Commercial accumen, Courageous leadership.

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.