Global I&A Lead Air Care & Pest, Essential Home

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.

​Category Growth Organisation​

Category Growth Organization 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 Ramp;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 Category Growth Organization Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

This role involves working in the Category Growth Organisation of Aircare & Pest in Essential Home, working with a multi-functional team (Marketing, R&D & Trade Marketing) that is responsible for developing a robust commercial innovation strategy and product pipeline for the next 3-5 years for Aircare & Pest across the world. You will lead a team of I&A Managers.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you’ll be the voice of consumers & will have the freedom to put the end user at the heart of our brand & innovation strategies! Focus areas will be to:

•    Drive the category’s growth by leveraging actionable consumer insights and analytics to drive the Strategic roadmap, Equity, Innovation and Success models for our global brands. Think and act with a business lens playing an active role in strategic decision-making.
•    Develop your insights team from a functional perspective to continue upskilling our talent. Ensure Consumer Insight is known and valued for subject matter expertise, curiosity, creativity and innovation, objectivity, actionable storytelling, technical excellence, business acumen, strategic mindset, thought leadership, and a passion for change. 
•    Establish strong interdependent partnership with the IMEx I&A organizations to strengthen Innovation Programs via ensuring relevance to the regions and diffusion of market specific knowledge.
•    Establish effective partnerships with key External Partners / Agencies
•    Influence stakeholders by actively and persuasively representing consumer voice to drive impactful decision-making
•    Manage the global consumer research budget

The experience we're looking for

•    10 years+ of experience in consumer & market insights or a related field, with expertise in qualitative and quantitative research
•    Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to turn vision into action, motivate others to achieve goals, and follow through on decisions.
•    Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and decision making at all levels of a complex global organization.
•    Passionate about understanding human behaviour and innovative thinker, always seeking new, efficient ways to drive innovation
•    Turn complex information and ideas into simple and actionable outputs.
•    Have an action-oriented mindset with an ability to think strategically.
•    Demonstrated ability to get beyond the present and understand long term trends, tell an insightful story about future consumers, and identify opportunities for growth.
•    Skilled in project management, with a focus on agile, end-to-end project ownership and excellence in execution
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a growth mindset
•    Experienced in the innovation development process and design-based product innovation
•    Strong business acumen, understanding financial metrics, and business operations
•    Trusted partner with the ability to build alignment and challenge the status quo
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, adaptable to various audiences who builds trust-based relationships
•    Team player, inclusive and collaborative
•    Excellent social, written and verbal communication skills (in English)

The skills for success

Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Product sustainability, NEW Product Development, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimisation, Digital Marketing, Brand activation, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, P&L management.

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.