Global Asset & Artwork Process Lead - Essential Home (FTC)

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

About the role

Reporting to the Artwork & Asset Process manager this person will be responsible for providing the most effective route to artwork project delivery within the existing operating model and process and will own the day-to-day relationship with our artwork and repro agency partners. The role will require daily liaison with key organizational process stakeholders across various geographies in multiple functions; R&D, Regulatory Compliance, Legal, 3D Packaging, Procurement, Supply and Design.

The ideal candidate will have a production planning and management background – with some direct experience of artwork planning and print specification. You will support operating model/process application, guard adherence and ensure teams are aware of their accountabilities/responsibilities. You will be responsible to flag process deviations, risks to compliance and delivery.

You will be a key partner to both our business and our agency partners ensuring expectations are always managed across all project stakeholders and queries and disputes are settled in a timely manner to ultimately enable Essential Home to consistently deliver against design intent. You will also ensure artwork & repro agency capacity is available for artwork demand forecasted.

The role will be based in Amsterdam Schiphol WTC or Hull, UK – and involves some global travel.

Please note this is a Fixed Term Contract role

Your responsibilities

Process Management

• Support the development/gathering feedback around the rollout of process changes
• Guard the artwork production Standard Operating Process – ensuring global compliance
• Ensure clarity technical/compliance process requirements to internal and external stakeholders
• Pro-actively involve relevant project stakeholders to enable effective project delivery
• Ensure clarity on roles, accountabilities and responsibilities across internal and external stakeholders
• Mediate challenges across different levels (both internal and external) enabling effective delivery
• Immediately escalate process deviations/project challenges to maximise opportunity to mitigate
• Evaluate and advise improvement measures through project wash-ups
• Effectively support multiple projects and priorities at the same time

Production Capacity Management

• Set up and align project design/artwork matrix across design team, marketing, artwork & repro partner
• Calculate and assign master asset/artwork budgets (as part of design budget)
• Pro-actively gather (future) artwork project information to enable capacity planning
• Translate projects into artwork and repro agency partner forecast
• Manage print/on-press approval network (via artwork/repro supplier network)
• Effectively organize and apply global lead artwork and repro agency capacity
• Escalate possible resource challenges to trigger upscaling/prioritization
• Report accuracy of information obtained back to the business to educate

Stakeholder management

• Build/ maintain a strong connection with internal and external stakeholders
• Identify/involve all relevant stakeholders to enable effective project delivery
• Gather/evaluate and value internal and external stakeholder viewpoints
• Maintain information availability for all stakeholders
• Ensure an aligned approach across all stakeholders
• Identify and share learnings from any challenge
• Be the trusted objective voice of reason in any project
• Promote high performance culture through coaching and giving/receiving feedback
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with global artwork/repro partners.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in relevant field (marketing/sustainability/e-comm/business)
• Project management qualifications are considered a plus
• Experience working as part of a cross-functional team
• Base understanding of multiple disciplines including Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain and Finance
• Excellent organisational & communication skills, particularly across different cultures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill in English
• Able to convey information clearly and concisely across diverse audiences/all levels

The skills for success

This role is right for you if you…

• Enjoy working in a demanding, fast-paced, and highly dynamic environment
• Are motivated by working collaboratively with multiple cross functional teams & cultures
• Demonstrate a combination of analytical skills and strategic mindset
• Are pro-active in setting priorities
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset
• Share successes and own failure
• Respect other points of view and
• Are a natural problem solver
• Are not afraid to speak your mind.
• Are comfortable with ambiguities whilst maintaining the highest level of accuracy and discipline
• Are a logical thinker with ability to organize, sequence and break down complex activities

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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