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About Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world‑class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. With high‑quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon & Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

About the Role

As Essential Home embarks on an exciting carve‑out journey, the Global Process Lead will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the foundational HR systems and processes for our new organization. This is a unique opportunity to build from the ground up, creating a lean, simple, and scalable operating model that delivers real value to the business and supports our growth ambitions.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the setup of global HR processes and systems during the carve‑out phase, ensuring seamless transition and operational readiness.
• Design and implement efficient, standardized, and user‑friendly processes across all HR domains (Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Performance, Payroll, etc.).
• Partner with regional HR teams and business leaders to ensure alignment and adoption of global standards.
• Drive process mapping, documentation, and governance for all HR workflows.
• Collaborate with HRIS and IT teams to enable automation and digitalization initiatives.
• Monitor process performance through KPIs and implement continuous improvement strategies.
• Ensure compliance with global and local regulations while maintaining simplicity and agility.
• Act as subject matter expert for HR process design during system implementations and upgrades.

Experience we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in HR operations or process management in a global organization.
• Experience in carve‑outs, M&A integrations, or building HR processes from scratch in startup‑like environments is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of HR systems (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, etc.).
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional projects and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.

The skills for success

Strategic mindset, Courageous leadership, Storytelling, Data‑led storytelling, Operational Excellence, HR Process Improvement, Process Management, HR Process improvement, Solutioning, HR Data Analysis, Data management, Employee data management.

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.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Human Resources

Industries

Consumer Goods Rental