Senior HR Business Partner

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Human Resources

Our HR Team brings 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 a global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills.

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.

About the role

As Senior HR Business Partner R&D Household Care & Germ, you will lead a bold People Strategy that shapes the future of talent and culture across multiple business functions. With a client group of approximately 830, you will act as a trusted advisor and cultural catalyst, ensuring our people agenda is fully aligned with business priorities, engagement remains at the heart of everything we do, and leadership capability is elevated to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Playing a pivotal role on your respective leadership teams, you will influence, mentor, and inspire people to reach their potential and perform at their best. Through collaboration with Area HR and Centres of Excellence, you will deliver initiatives that unlock potential, accelerate performance, and make a profound impact on Reckitt’s future growth.

Your responsibilities

• Devise and deliver HR strategy and people plans for your functions: Partner with functional leadership teams to develop people strategies and action plans that drive performance, potential, and business priorities.
• Talent management: Shape the future of talent through sustainable succession plans that attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent, with a heightened focus on career planning and leadership development.
• Elevate Employee Experience: Work with your leadership team to shape the culture, engagement and recognition initiatives, and embed a culture of high performance.
• Lead with Influence & Impact: Partner with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, providing expert guidance on employee relations, compliance, and organisation change and transformation.
• Future-Proof Capabilities: Collaborate with leaders to define critical functional capabilities and associated development initiatives that align with current business priorities and future skills and capability needs.
• Lead change with purpose: Ensure value creation through managing organisational transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with evolving business landscapes and effective change management and communications.
• Collaborate for Impact: Work closely with our Centres of Excellence to deploy global people initiatives and deliver strategic talent outcomes.
• Harness Data for Decisions: Leverage analytics and talent metrics to measure impact, optimise ROI, and support compelling stories and strategic decision-making.
• Employee relations: Partner with leaders to provide expert employee relations advice and case management, ensuring compliance with local employment laws.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience in HR partnering and talent management roles, including partnering with senior leadership in fast-paced, complex environments.
• Experience partnering with global teams across multiple locations, collaborating effectively with local HR to drive the agenda forward and support leaders.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with expertise in influencing senior leaders, conflict resolution and project management.
• Strong facilitation skills and experience delivering team engagement workshops and leadership training.
• Experience driving strategic business transformation and managing change.
• Experience driving an HR agenda in a cross-matrix organisation and being comfortable with complexity.
• Experience in devising strategic HR interventions that deliver organisational excellence, demonstrating out-of-the-box thinking to solve business problems.
• Strong commercial acumen, value creation, enterprise leadership, and experience in driving learning and development, talent management, engagement, and compliance.
• Digital fluency and adeptness in leveraging data to inform compelling stories and strategies.

The skills for success

Employee relations, HR Business Partnering, Strategic mindset, Organisational structure, Change management, Executing plans, Employee engagement, Data and analytics, Storytelling, Commercial acumen, Courageous leadership

What we offer

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.

We recognise that 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.