AW Manager Germ Protection - 12 month FTC

Reckitt; Slough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer goods company is seeking a Design Manager to enhance global marketing initiatives. You will partner with teams to ensure timely and quality artwork delivery. Ideal candidates have strong artwork management skills, team leadership experience, and the ability to work across various functions. This role offers opportunities for personal growth and various benefits aligned with market standards.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong skills in artwork delivery.
• Experience in managing and leading an artwork team.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Key partner with cross-functional teams for artwork delivery.
• Supervise Artwork coordinator in task completion.
• Manage end-to-end artwork production process.

Skills

Brand Strategy

Digital Marketing

Creativity

Team management

Collaboration

Job description

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.

Category Growth Organisation 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.

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.

About the Role

Unlock your creativity and join Reckitt as a Design Manager. You will act as a catalyst for visual excellence, applying your design expertise to shape and enhance our global marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Key partner with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of artworks on time and to quality which adhere to company and brand guidelines.
• Key partner for the Artwork Agency partner in the delivery of artworks.

Artwork Management

• Be the Global Artworks Operating Procedure Champion for Project Roll Out across markets
• Key point of contact, coordination, and support for Brandworks & Artworks for the project between CGO Team, Design Team, GLARA (Trident Team) IMEX Team (Markets), Supply & Packaging Teams
• Agency resource prioritization across global and local initiatives and end-to-end management of artwork production process
• Creation or co-creation of Pack Copies with support from Brand Teams
• Responsible for agency Briefing for MAW’s.
• Assist in creation of annual artwork planning
• Supervise Artwork coordinator in completion of the assigned tasks

The Experience We're Looking For

• Artwork and Project Management Experience: must be able to demonstrate very strong skills in artwork delivery.
• Team management experiences: highly desirable to have led an artwork team in delivering the job assigned within the categories
• OTHER PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• Ability to work in a matrix organization (CGO, MX, Sales, Key Lead Markets) – strong interpersonal skills, dealing with multiple stakeholders across different functions and levels of expertise
• Entrepreneurial and able to work autonomously
• Being agile and able to navigate through ambiguity
• Strong sense of urgency and achievement
• Resilient and able to respond under pressure
• Good attention to detail and organization skills
• Ability to influence and collaborate with markets with varying levels of portfolio and brand maturity
• The business language in Reckitt is English, therefore fluency in English is essential. Fluency in other language(s) is advantageous.

The Skills for Success

• Brand Strategy
• Category Strategy
• Presentation skills
• Drive Innovation
• Storytelling
• Creativity
• Digital Marketing
• Commercial acumen
• Collaboration
• FMCG/Consumer Health Experience

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.