Business Director Sustainability - Carbon and Packaging

Business Director Sustainability - Carbon and Packaging

City: Slough

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.

About the role

Reckitt has a growing track record on sustainability leadership, and we’re committed to having a positive impact moving forward. You’ll lead the brand sustainability agenda across 2 critical and high profile topics – Carbon and Packaging. You will be responsible for setting the global glidepaths and ensuring brand activity is directed against their individual purposes and sustainability ambitions and our collective pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.

Your responsibilities

In summary you'll:

1. Lead the development of capability and capacity within brand and marketing function on sustainability across Carbon and Packaging.
2. Conduct hotspot analysis and understand reduction opportunities to develop carbon and packaging glidepaths.
3. Lead the cross functional teams to ensure efforts are directed towards brand/category priority areas ensuring focused efforts where it matters.
4. Develop a learning agenda to increase the awareness & deployment of best in class sustainability assets, policies, playbooks & tools.
5. Build culture of sustainability through marketing team engagement – develop regular communications to share insights, case studies, learning sessions.
6. Build a community of sustainability – supporting the network of Marketing Sustainability Champions & cross functional connections across Customer, R&D, Pack, Supply, Marketing Excellence teams & beyond.
7. Lead internal & external engagement on sustainability for carbon and packaging topics, collaborating with key functions to generate opportunity & equity:
8. Marketing & Sales teams for consumer & retailer engagement.
9. Corporate Affairs for internal engagement & external engagement with investors.
10. R&D for cross brand/GBU synergies, alignment where practical and efficiencies.
11. External partners such as software providers and consultants.
12. Liaise with technical product sustainability team members to deliver progress tracking across all relevant KPIs (e.g. pipeline snapshots).
13. Attend relevant forums under new operating to ensure that sustainability implications are understood and highlighted where applicable in brand and innovation decisions across the CLT.

This position reports into the Sustainable Products and Brands Director. Although your role will be focused on Carbon and Packaging, you will work closely with counterparts across other topics such as Chemicals and Biodiversity to share learnings, best practice & develop common solutions in support of our corporate sustainability ambitions.

The experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will be a self-starter that is able to work independently and possess the ability to collaborate, motivate and work effectively with a variety of different internal and external employees and stakeholders, to inspire a positive culture of respect for strong human rights and environmental standards within our supply chain.

• Significant experience of brand and innovation management in FMCG and Reckitt.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives from idea through to implementation.
• Strong awareness of current and emerging ESG trends, risks and opportunities that may affect Reckitt’s brands, with ideally experience in managing some of these aspects for an individual brand.
• Proven leader, with the ability to drive impact at all levels and challenge the business strategy.
• Strong sense of urgency and achievement, you excel in a fast-paced and dynamic international environment.
• You must be confident in managing ambiguity, and be able to develop suitable pathways to complex problems by balancing multiple objectives and considering trade-offs.
• Be able to successfully navigate a complex matrix organisation, influencing senior stakeholders to drive the overall sustainability agenda within the wider business context.
• Be persistent and undeterred on encountering obstacles and tracking work through to completion.
• Excellent understanding of the FMCG industry and Reckitt business needs.
• Able to put theory into practice by developing clear and pragmatic strategies that can be integrated into business processes.
• Great presentation skills – ability to make the complex simple and effectively communicate with a range of different audiences (cross functions and cross levels).
• Resilient and able to respond under pressure.
• Effective listener who seeks to understand before finding solutions, not afraid of learning new topics with complex data sets and models.

The skills for success

Strategic Thinking, Environmental Knowledge, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Management, Data Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Reporting and Communication, Environmental Management Systems, Auditing, Risk Management, Sustainable Sourcing, Training and Education, Life Cycle Assessment, Regulatory Knowledge, Human Rights, Due Diligence, International Standards, Stakeholder Collaboration, Training and Capacity Building, Incident Response, Policy Development, Legal Understanding.

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.