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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

The Portfolio & Change Manager for the Marketing Function is responsible for overseeing the strategic alignment, prioritization, and delivery of marketing initiatives across the organization. This role ensures that marketing projects and programs are effectively governed, resourced, and tracked to deliver business value. A key component of the role is leading change management efforts to ensure successful adoption and sustainability of marketing transformation initiatives.

Your responsibilities

You understand how the business operates, how large projects and programmes are run, and what it feels like to be on the delivery end.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain the marketing project portfolio roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Manage and develop internal workstream governance
• Facilitate portfolio governance forums and ensure effective prioritization and decision-making.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align marketing initiatives with strategic goals.

Project Oversight & Delivery

• Monitor progress, risks, interdependencies and key mitigating actions across the marketing portfolio.
• Escalate key risks or interdependencies when necessary
• Ensure consistent project management standards and methodologies are applied.

Change Management

• Lead development of change management plan for op-model related projects.
• Proactively and effectively manage the change management deliverables within the change plan and the deployment plan.
• Identify, implement, track and report on business readiness activities through leadership and change management governance forums.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans, change impact assessments, communication and training plans.
• Track and report on training status to local leadership.
• Create, own and track effectiveness of the communication plan. Develop and coordinate delivery of local communications artefacts and campaigns.
• Ensure the change is measured and sustained.
• Track portfolio budgets, forecasts, actuals and benefits realisation ensuring financial discipline.

Performance & Reporting

• Provide visibility to all stakeholders on workstream progress (PMO, workstream leads, area leads)
• Prepare for and lead workstream
• Define and track KPIs to measure portfolio health, marketing impact, and change adoption.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships across marketing, commercial, digital, and transformation teams.
• Coordinate projects and project leads within function
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on portfolio performance and strategic trade-offs.

The experience we're looking for

• Excellent communicator, confident presenting or pitching to a senior audience
• Comfortable influencing and negotiating in a collaborative manner with various stakeholders, to seek mutual agreement
• Able to position yourself as a consultant, facilitator and co-ordinator, able to guide and challenge others without delivering programmes yourself
• Experienced in navigating from big picture to detail on a regular basis, able to build strategic plans and see abstract interconnections, while still being comfortable to dive into detail where required
• Excellent project management, people and organisational skills
• Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen, able to distill complex information into digestible insights
• Can build credibility quickly, with multiple internal partners at all levels of the business
• A natural relationship-builder, with great coaching skills, able to adapt your style for different audiences

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.