Overview

Group Transformation Senior Manager (Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT)

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.

About the role

The Group Transformation Senior Manager plays a pivotal role in overseeing a portfolio of change and transformation initiatives that align with Reckitt’s strategic objectives. This role ensures effective governance, benefit realization, and alignment across business, technology, and organizational design. The role requires strategic leadership, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to drive transformation across Functions and Areas. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in process improvement, change management, and cross-functional delivery, with the credibility to influence senior executives.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Alignment: Develop and drive a coherent transformation strategy that supports the organization’s long-term goals and priorities.

· Portfolio Governance: Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks to ensure effective oversight, prioritization, and control of the transformation portfolio.

· Benefit Realization: Drive the delivery of measurable business value and benefits from transformation programs.

· Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, representing the transformation function at governance boards and steering committees.

· Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues that may impact delivery.

· Change Management: Champion change readiness and adoption, embedding new ways of working across the organization.

· Reporting and Oversight: Provide timely, accurate reporting and maintain strong governance oversight across all transformation initiatives.

· Embed Portfolio Management Tool Drive ongoing embedding and adoption of the groups Portfolio Management platform (SNOW SPM).

The experience we're looking for

· Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the broader systems view and translate it into actionable plans.

· Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and foster a collaborative culture.

· Communication: Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.

· Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and decision-making capabilities to resolve complex challenges.

· Influence and Credibility: Operates with gravitas and credibility at senior levels, both internally and externally.

· Financial Acumen: Strong numeracy and attention to detail, with the ability to manage budgets and assess financial impact.

· Proven experience in leading large-scale transformation or change portfolios in a complex, matrixed organization.

· Strong background in program/portfolio management, governance, and benefit realization.

· Experience working with senior executives and influencing strategic decisions.

· Relevant qualifications (e.g., PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, MSP, Agile, or equivalent) are advantageous

The skills for success

Diversity and inclusion, Data and Analytics, Storytelling; Data led storytelling, Organisational structure, Coaching skills; Facilitation skills, Change management, Execute plans, Strategic mindset, Employment engagement, Digital literacy, Operational Excellence, Commercial accumen, 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.

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