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Executive Search Manager - 1 year FTC

City: Slough

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

As an Executive Search Manager, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting and hiring top Senior Leadership talent for Reckitt globally, working across the Europe, North America and Emerging Markets geographical locations. Reporting into an Executive Search Lead, you will lead the end-to-end process of sourcing, assessing, and support the ESL in placing senior-level executives. You will also deliver autonomously on executive searches where you have opportunity to own the end-to-end process. This role involves close collaboration with key business stakeholders to understand strategic hiring needs and deliver tailored recruitment solutions.

Your responsibilities

Partner with leadership to define role requirements and candidate profiles.
Develop and execute search strategies in collaboration with the ESL to identify high-calibre executive talent.
Deliver autonomously on end-to-end searches.
Conduct extensive global market mapping, talent research, and competitive intelligence.
Screen, interview, and assess candidates for cultural and professional fit.
Manage candidate experience from initial contact through offer negotiation and onboarding, with continuous stakeholder management for any end to end search processes that are assigned
Collaborate with your regional TA Leadership team and other TA Managers to share best practices, insights, and solutions across your regional TA team.

The experience we're looking for

Proven experience in executive search or senior-level recruitment (search firm or in-house)
Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
Deep expertise in assessing executive talent, including leadership competencies, cultural fit, and long-term potential aligned to business strategy.
Advanced sourcing capability, including proactive talent mapping, market intelligence, and innovative use of LinkedIn, Boolean search techniques, and alternative channels to engage passive talent.
Demonstrated ability to design and execute global search strategies, managing multiple assignments simultaneously with a high degree of quality and delivery focus.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to present candidate insights and market intelligence clearly to senior stakeholders.
High level of discretion and professionalism in handling confidential and sensitive executive-level searches

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.

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