Senior Leadership Development Manager

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Slough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Leadership Development Curriculum Manager, where you'll shape the future of leadership and talent development. This role is critical in driving innovative learning solutions that align with business strategies while collaborating with senior stakeholders. You'll have the opportunity to create impactful interventions that enhance leadership skills and contribute to a cleaner, healthier world. If you're passionate about developing leaders and making a meaningful difference in a global organization, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Experience in multinational organizations with a focus on leadership development.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of a global leadership strategy aligned with business goals.
• Create integrated leadership and learning solutions for talent development.

Skills

Coaching skills

Facilitation skills

Change management

Storytelling

Data led storytelling

Succession planning

Talent development

Performance management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

HRIS technology

Success Factors

Job description

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.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring 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 an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams.

About the role

As the Leadership Development Curriculum Manager at Reckitt, you will play a critical role in contributing to the company’s global leadership & talent development strategy, programme development, roll out and evaluation. You'll work with the Head of Leadership Development to create innovative and impactful leadership development interventions that enhance leaders’ skills and support the execution of the business strategy. Your responsibilities will also involve designing and facilitating talent development programmes. Both of these core activities will involve working closely with senior stakeholders across the business and within HR to identify development requirements and align expectations.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

1. Support the development of a comprehensive global leadership strategy to build the next generation of Reckitt leaders; aligned to Reckitt’s business strategy and goals.
2. Identify the required leadership skills & behaviours required for success at all levels that will drive business growth.
3. Clearly identify the leadership development opportunities at Reckitt and build integrated leadership and learning solutions that address these.
4. Review talent data to spot opportunities to enhance our talent pipeline, using a strong understanding of our talent processes and CoE priorities.
5. Create bespoke roadmaps by level, for leadership and talent development initiatives, including leadership skills building programmes, coaching, and mentoring initiatives, combined with integrated learning pathways.
6. Align leadership development solutions with other wider CoE priorities such as inclusion and cultural change initiatives to create integrated solutions that positively influence organizational behaviour and mindset shifts.
7. Ensure that development programmes (leadership and top talent accelerator) are measurable and have clear outcomes associated with them that are consistently measured to allow effective evaluation.
8. Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver high-impact learning experiences, including Global People Services (GPS). Leveraging technology and innovative approaches to enhance learning effectiveness.
9. Work closely with HR, Talent and business leaders to understand what is required from talent development programmes, the decisions required off the back of them and how to evaluate the effectiveness of them.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience of working in a complex, multinational matrix organisation, with a deep knowledge of leadership development and learning at comparable multinational companies.
• Strong ability to contribute to shaping strategy, change management, scaling programmes across multiple countries and Functions.
• Proven experience of practically applying adult learning principles to create innovative and impactful learning solutions that make a difference and deliver commercial value.
• Demonstrable experience of strong relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities, as well as engaging with people at all organisation levels, including senior leaders.
• High level project management experience within fast-paced environments, where multitasking and prioritisation have been necessary.
• Working in collaboration with external partners to codesign and deliver successful leadership development programmes.
• Experience with HRIS technology, ideally learning technologies and Success Factors.
• Leadership Development and adult learning subject matter expertise with an in-depth technical understanding of how to both assess and develop leaders/potential (including assessment and development centre design).
• Proven track record of designing and delivering high quality, fit for purpose leadership development programmes and initiatives.
• Up to date knowledge of industry trends and their impact on leadership and learning expectations to provide thought leadership for leadership programmes.
• Strong facilitation and communication (written and verbal) skills including storytelling.
• Strong Influencing and stakeholder management skills - must be able to influence and be a credible partner with senior stakeholders.
• Resilient and comfortable working with limited structure and high levels of ambiguity.
• Commercially aware with good business acumen and project management skills.
• A good understanding of psychometrics, engagement surveys and 360 questionnaire design.

The skills for success

Execute plans, Coaching skills, Facilitation skills, Change management, Storytelling, Data led storytelling, Succession planning, Talent development, Talent Management, Talent Development, Performance management, employee performance.

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.