Global Senior Brand Manager Nurofen Innovation

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.

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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.

About the role

Global Senior Brand Manager Nurofen Innovation

Slough, Hybrid Working 

Competitive Salary & Benefits: 25 Days Annual Leave, Bonus, Pension, Private Health 

Closing Date 7th March 2025

Reckitt invites an energetic and thoughtful Global Senior Brand Manager to take the helm of our marketing ventures and elevate our renowned brands to new heights. In this pivotal role, you'll be the architect of strategies that breathe life into our global marketing objectives, championing product innovation and sustainable growth. If you're passionate about transforming insights into action and dreams into reality, we offer an expanse of opportunity to carve out success in the consumer health arena while nurturing your personal and professional growth.

This position is responsible for driving Global Innovation for our Nurofen portfolio Supporting the development of the strategic 3yr plan and GSM with diagnostics and analysis, Supporting the development and validation of key innovation initiatives, alongside leading large scale projects and work closely with functional teams to deliver projects until IP.

Your responsibilities

This position is responsible for driving Global Innovation for our Nurofen portfolio Supporting the development of the strategic 3yr plan and GSM with diagnostics and analysis, Supporting the development and validation of key innovation initiatives, alongside leading 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.

 Strategy

• Supports the development of the strategic 3yr plan and Global Success Model with diagnostics and analysis.
• Supports masterplans per region to deliver sufficiency of innovation to deliver growth targets.

Innovation

• Align Innovation Priorities across Categories and Key CMUs via Council Strategy Council Meetings
• Develop Concepts for existing and new Products in line with innovation priorities.
• Set Product, Packaging, Claim, and Pricing Strategy for all innovation.
• Lead and develop ECOM first projects.
• Oversee Innovation Development and Stage-gate Approvals through to IP.
• Ensure Sustainability full embedded in all our innovations, sufficient to deliver category targets.
•  l&A Validation - Reco and execute all consumer requirements (incl budgets) and action accordingly across multi markets (with l&A)
• Development of Master pack designs for EPDs and NPDs. Mandatory to come as a 4 languages compliant design.
• Drive the Productivity pipeline on product and packaging (Gross Margin enhancement programs) from ideation to implementation
• Maintenance of base formulations and claims with respect to changing regulations or guidelines

The experience we're looking for

• Must be able to demonstrate strong marketing skills developed within the FMCG environment.
• Good strategic thinking skills and ability to support the execution of brand strategy.
• Performance management, commercial acumen, P&L understanding.
• Ability to leverage data and analytics to uncover trends and insights that guide strategic decisions.
• Innovation Experience: must be able to demonstrate strong skills in innovation development and delivery.
• Idea generation and validation.
• Project delivery.
• Cross-organisation leadership.

The skills for success

• Ability to work in a matrix organization (Category Marketing Excellence 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.

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.