Senior Project Manager - HR

Reckitt; Slough; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Reckitt is seeking a Senior Project Manager for an 18-month role in Project Garden that focuses on HR initiatives and organizational development. The ideal candidate will manage complex projects, steer governance processes, and drive change within the organization while ensuring effective stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance for all employees globally

Global share plans

Short-term incentives for eligible roles

Qualifications

• Senior Project Manager with a strong track record in complex initiatives.
• Expertise in stakeholder management and governance processes required.
• Ability to manage operational aspects and report progress effectively.

Responsibilities

• Enable programme governance cadence and manage project documentation.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects, reporting, and risk management.
• Identify risks and develop strategies to ensure project success.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Collaboration

Tools

Project management tools

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. 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. 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 - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way. About the role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Project Manager to be part of Project Garden – OD & Talent workstream, focusing on Organizational Development (OD) and be HR point of contact for other Garden workstreams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, with a proven track record in managing complex initiatives and ideally HR knowledge & experience. This role requires strategic thinking, high level of multiple stakeholder management and the ability to drive change across the organization. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for enabling programme governance cadence, managing day-to-day operational aspects, and ensuring project documentation is properly maintained.

This role can be remote and it is a long term project position (18 months).

Your responsibilities

Governance and stakeholder management:

• Enables Programme governance cadence including agenda management, co-ordination of scheduling, and action capture and follow up
• Ensures project documentation is properly maintained and updated including Business Readiness Tracker, Change Impact Log, and workstream reports
• Be the point of contact and lead for HR topics/dependencies for other workstreams under Project Garden

Delivery/Execution:

• Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of the programme including progress reporting, dependencies, issues, risks, and escalations
• Provide regular project status reporting to central Transformation Office.
• Maintain and update project plan milestones and deliverables
• Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
• Identifying and monitoring programme risks, planning and implementing responses to them and responding to other issues that affect the project
• Ensures that workstreams are adopting the ‘future state’ process

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

Performance Metrics:

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track project progress and impact.

Reporting:

• Reports on progress, results, and metrics to keep stakeholders informed and escalates risks and issues to respective stakeholders.

The experience we're looking for

Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience in project management tools & processes
Expertise in programme governance cadence, stakeholder management, and maintaining project documentation.
Ability to manage day-to-day operational aspects, including progress reporting, dependencies, issues, risks, and escalations.
Experience in identifying and monitoring programme risks and implementing responses.

Personal Attributes:
Adaptability:Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Integrity:High ethical standards and professionalism. (respect to confidentiality/ sensitivity of the HR/ organizational topics)
Collaboration:Strong team player with a collaborative approach.

The skills for success Execute plans, Courageous leadership, Employment engagement, Storytelling, Data led storytelling, Succession planning, Talent development, Talent Management, Talent Development, Performance management, employee performance, Coaching, Facilitation. 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.