Global Engineering Capex & Portfolio Director

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.

​Supply​

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 Global CAPEX and Portfolio Lead is responsible for overseeing end to end Reckitts capital expenditure, creation adherence and continuous improvement of execution processes, CAPEX portfolio prioritization, group spending phasing and control. The role is responsible to ensure governance model is executed across geographies and all levels of organisation from project idea through scoping through execution and post investment review.

Your responsibilities

•    CAPEX Project Managements 
o    Create, deploy global project management standard framework, and associated work processes to assure that capital investment projects deliver the intended business objective. 
o    Continuously improve the project management standard by capturing lessons learned and feeding them back to the process to stive better delveiry and simplification for CAPEX execution. 
o    Establish and maintain relevant data base for knowledge and experience sharing. 

 

•    Provide governance, management and oversight on investment process
o    Build process which will provide assurance that the projects are ready to pass through project stage gates and following all necessary requirements before approving budget. 
o    Create and consolidate reporting for regular project status update highlighting project status achievements challenges and opportunities.
o    Provide support to wider engineering team in monitoring project performance and advising corrective actions as appropriate.

 

•    Global CAPEX portfolio 
o    Set processes for management global CAPEX portfolio, seek synergy in effective governance, benchmark projects to deliver better predictability of capital spending and investment efficiency. Drive prioritization of projects based on se criteria and thresholds for the group CAPEX. 

 

•    CAPEX budget / forecast process.
o    Establish an annual/forecast CAPEX global budget process for all areas, regions and sites. 
o    Review and perform analysis to identify opportunities and spot early issues for CAPEX budget. 
o    Work closely with finance team to ensure accurate budgeting and financial reporting including deviation from intended plan. Where possible provide recovery plan or mitigation actions.

 

•    Global Collaboration.
o    Working closely with engineering, operations, finance, and executive teams across different regions ensures seamless project execution and knowledge sharing. This requires strong cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration skills

 

•    CAPEX Process digitalization 
o    Identify and implement right digital tools to enhance portfolio management and CAPEX project management for more effective reporting and analysis.

 

Typical connects are with Area Engineering Director, Global Strategic Project Director, Finance Directors/Managers and other supply leaders.
 

The experience we're looking for

Essential
•    Bachelor's degree in any engineering fields 
•    Progressive experience in Engineering & Project Management within the CPG industry. 
•    Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills. 

Desirable 
•    Experience in Project Portfolio Management is beneficial.
•    International experience in major projects is beneficial
•    Preferred knowledge and experience working in management capacity in a CAPEX-related role in CPG company. 

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence, 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.