Design Excellence Planning Lead - Household

Reckitt; Slough; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consumer goods company located in Slough is seeking a Design Excellence Planning Lead to coordinate and deliver design projects for their Household category. The ideal candidate should have substantial project management experience and be proficient with tools like Asana and Microsoft Office. This role demands strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Opportunity to participate in global share plans

Qualifications

• Experience in project management, account management, or production coordination within a design, creative, or agency environment.
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple creative projects simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed organisation with competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of design projects within a specific category.
• Manage project timelines, deliverables, budgets, and dependencies.
• Serve as the primary contact for brand, marketing, and innovation teams.

Skills

Project Management Excellence

Resource & Workflow Coordination

Communication & Relationship Building

Problem-Solving & Resilience

Organisation & Detail-Oriented Thinking

Tools

Asana

Monday

Float

Microsoft Office Suite

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. 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. Marketing Excellence Marketing 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 Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive. About the role

The Design Excellence Planning Lead plays a critical role in coordinating, tracking, and delivering design projects within the Household category. Acting as the connective tissue between design, marketing, and operations, this role ensures projects are delivered on time, on brief, and on budget.

The Design Excellence Planning Lead oversees multiple design projects in parallel, ensuring resource planning, stakeholder alignment, and project workflows are optimised to support the success of Reckitt’s Design Excellence function. This role demands exceptional organisation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Your responsibilities

• Project Management & Delivery
  • Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of design projects within a specific category.
  • Oversee project timelines, deliverables, budgets, and dependencies to ensure successful execution.
  • Manage project documentation, status tracking, and milestone reporting.
  • Anticipate and resolve issues quickly to avoid delivery delays or resource bottlenecks.

• Resource Planning & Traffic Management
  • Maintain weekly designer schedules, ensuring tasks are assigned in line with skills and workload capacity.
  • Identify capacity challenges and forecast resource requirements across multiple workstreams.
  • Collaborate with the Head of Design Excellence Operations to support talent planning, freelance support, and recruitment where needed.
  • Coordinate with Senior Design Excellence Managers and Design Excellence Leads to balance workloads and streamline workflows.

• Internal Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for brand, marketing, and innovation teams.
  • Translate briefs and project requirements into clear deliverables for design teams.
  • Build strong relationships across internal teams to foster collaboration and clarity.
  • Ensure expectations are managed, met, and exceeded across all project engagements.

• Process Improvement & Operational Support
  • Support the development and rollout of tools, templates, and systems that enhance design operations.
  • Identify and implement strategies to drive operational efficiency and reduce complexity.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of briefing, scoping, and reporting workflows.
  • Actively participate in team retrospectives, sharing feedback and suggesting process optimisations.

• Reporting & Issue Resolution
  • Generate regular reports on project health, resource utilisation, budget adherence, and risk areas.
  • Provide actionable insights to senior stakeholders and the Head of Design Excellence Operations.
  • Lead proactive problem-solving efforts, escalating issues when appropriate and driving resolution.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience in project management, account management, or production coordination within a design, creative, or agency environment.
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple creative projects simultaneously.
• Proficient in project management tools (e.g. Asana, Monday, Float) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed organisation with competing priorities.

Skills

• Project Management Excellence: Strong capability in managing complex, multi-stakeholder creative projects.
• Resource & Workflow Coordination: Skilled at balancing team workloads and managing project pipelines.
• Communication & Relationship Building: Able to maintain strong internal relationships and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Problem-Solving & Resilience: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and resolving roadblocks quickly.
• Organisation & Detail-Oriented Thinking: High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline.

Mindset & Approach

• Collaborative & Proactive: Actively drives alignment and forward momentum across project teams.
• Calm Under Pressure: Maintains clarity and focus when juggling multiple projects and timelines.
• Process-Minded & Improvement-Oriented: Continuously seeks better ways of working.
• Consumer & Outcome-Focused: Ensures design projects contribute to effective, insight-led brand outcomes.

The skills for success

Brand 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.