Global Brand Manager - Sore Throat

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.

This position is responsible for driving Global Innovation for our Sore Throat portfolio:

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands.

Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society.

With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams.

With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and validation of key innovation initiatives.
• Lead small scale projects or supports GSBM in large scale projects and work closely with functional teams to deliver projects until IP.
• Key partner with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of innovation on time and to quality.
• Key partner on delivery of Innovation.

Innovation:

• Supports the alignment of Innovation Priorities.
• Supports the development of Concepts for Existing and New Products in line with innovation priorities.
• Supports the setting of Product, Packaging, Claim, and Pricing Strategy for all innovation.
• Supports development of ECOM first projects.
• Supports Innovation Development and Stage-gate Approvals through to IP.
• Supports with ensuring sustainability fully embedded in all our innovations, sufficient to deliver category targets.
• Supports l&A Validation.
• Development of Master pack designs for EPDs and NPDs. Mandatory to come as a 4 languages compliant design.

Base Business Continuity:

• Supports the drive for a Productivity pipeline on product and packaging (GM Enhancement programs) from ideation to implementation.
• Supports the maintenance of base formulations and claims with respect to changing regulations or guidelines.

What we’re looking for:

Marketing experience:

• Must be able to demonstrate outstanding marketing skills developed within the FMCG environment, including experience on the brand or the broader category.
• Experience in growing brands and categories.
• Experience with performance marketing and how to drive sustainable growth.
• Innovation Experience: must be able to demonstrate outstanding skills in innovation development and delivery.
• Idea generation and validation.
• Project delivery.
• Cross-organisation leadership.
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a matrix organization (CDO, MX, Sales, Key Lead Markets) - strong interpersonal skills, dealing with multiple stakeholders across different functions and levels of expertise.
• Entrepreneurial and able to work autonomously.
• Strong sense of urgency and achievement.
• Resilient and able to respond under pressure.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with markets with varying levels of portfolio and brand maturity.

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.