HR Business Partner

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.

 

At Reckitt, you will: 

• Live our purpose: help us protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. 

• Join our fight: Making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right, not a privilege. 

• Be led by our compass: put consumers and people first; build shared success, seek out new opportunities, strive for excellence and do the right thing, always. 

About the role

Reckitt is seeking an inspired HR Business Partner to join our dynamic team, utilising their strategic HR expertise to influence our fast-moving environment. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who thrives on developing talent and strategizing alongside senior stakeholders. Your role will be pivotal in nurturing potential and cultivating an empowering workplace that aligns with our ambitious business goals. If you're passionate about driving engagement and nurturing talent within a leading global company, we invite you to bring your expertise and grow with us.

 

The HR Business Partner will play a critical role in enabling business performance and leadership capability across the market. Key areas of accountability include:

 

Strategic People Partnership:
Provide end‑to‑end HR business partnering and ownership for the Field Sales and Early Careers populations, aligning people plans to commercial strategy, workforce capability, performance management, talent progression, and succession needs.

Employee Relations & Case Management:
Lead and deliver comprehensive employee relations support across the market, drawing on strong prior experience in disciplinary and grievance processes, investigations, absence management, and organisational change and restructuring. Ensure consistent application of policy, effective risk management, and fair, timely resolution of ER matters.

Leadership, Capability & Culture:
Facilitate and deliver leadership and behavioural development initiatives that reinforce our organisational values, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and build the next generation of leaders, with a clear focus on culture, inclusion, and sustainable performance. 

Your responsibilities

As a HR Business partner you will Partner with the leaders and the UK HR team to drive business value through our people. Implement effective HR solutions based on the HR strategy and local business objectives. 

 

Providing advice and support to management on all aspects of HR programs and activities 

• Deliver the global and NEU HR strategy  

• Partner and advise leaders on people topics
• Support efficient and effective organisational design and change management initiatives 
• Use strong commercial acumen to drive the people agenda
• Drive employee reference groups and culture initiatives and positive relationships between the business and our people
• Provide workforce analytics to anticipate challenges, opportunities, and trends
• Hold and coach on courageous conversations to do the right thing in our business
• Drive completion of business-as-usual HR processes such as cyclical training, PDR milestones, PDPs, pay reviews 

 

Partner with  leaders on all aspects of the employee life cycle, including:

• Working with the talent acquisition team to recruit and onboard new hires
• Facilitate the completion of talent and succession plans  
• Manage employee relations issues and risks
• Ensure leaders and have culture action plans for their teams
• Managing people cost and planning for the future
• Deliver global leadership programmes and partner with talent COE to adapt global development programmes to local needs
• Ensure compliance with all local labour laws and global HR policies
• Implement agreed reward systems in line with global policies and tools; lead and participate in benchmarking and updating market compensation including recommendations to HRD
• HR project work that may span EUANZ

The experience we're looking for

Skills 

• Strong knowledge of UK labour legislation and employee relations landscape 
• Strong analytical skills 
• Demonstrated ability to partner with leaders on all facets of the employee life cycle 
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to understand the Reckitt business  
• Ability to align people initiatives and HR strategy with the business agenda 
• Driven to plan and execute on people initiatives per plan 
• Capacity to have courageous conversations with leaders, employees and leadership teams – speaking with openness and integrity  
• Ability to coach leaders and facilitate crucial conversations 
• Use people data to provide and drive action on business insights  
• Ability to prioritise,  
• Role models Reckitt Leader Behaviours – Own, Deliver, Create and Care 

 

Qualifications and Experience  

• Degree in HR, Psychology, Business, or related; or experience deemed equivalent  
• Experience working in a highly commercial, business is advantageous 
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end HR generalist activities and ability to work independently as part of a geographically separate team 
• Commitment to driving diversity and inclusion. 
• Other duties as required 

The skills for success

Employee relations, Labour legislation, Strategic Mindset, Diversity and inclusion, Organisational structure, Coaching skills, Facilitation skills, Change management, Execute plans, Strategic mindset, Employment engagement, Digital literacy, Data and Analytics, Storytelling, Commercial acumen, 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.