Head of Corporate & Government Affairs, UK

Head of Corporate & Government Affairs, UK

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.

Corporate Communications & External Affairs

Our communications and external affairs team are at the very heart of Reckitt’s brand, purpose and products, bringing them to life around the globe for our employees, consumers, investors, governments and our suppliers.

It’s a rewarding task, growing and protecting Reckitt’s image and brand. Every day, we design public relations and communication strategies that build awareness, trust and relationships, while steering us away from reputational risk.

From digital, media and events to employee experience, strategic relationships, and community partners, we identify opportunities to deliver on our business and sustainability agenda, while proactively identifying storylines and opportunities to advance our narrative.

About the role

As Head of Corporate Affairs, UK, you’ll be responsible for Reckitt’s engagement with key corporate stakeholders, policymakers, parliamentarians and the UK government.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you will:

• Maintain strategic relationships with government, policymakers and parliamentarians, regularly meeting with them to build trust, mitigate potential obstacles and convey the company’s priorities.
• Act as a strategic adviser to the leadership team of Reckitt in the UK.
• Help advance the public policy and advocacy strategy for the company, working collaboratively with colleagues to ensure alignment between business objectives, policy and stakeholder outreach goals.
• Collaborate closely with global corporate affairs colleagues, particularly corporate affairs leads in other key markets, and Reckitt’s global corporate affairs leads for policy, media and operations.
• Work with key senior business partners across Reckitt’s businesses and functions such as R&D, supply, regulatory and legal.
• Build intelligence and understanding of business-critical issues by tracking, monitoring and advising on important changes in regulatory or legislative matters affecting Reckitt’s home market.

The experience we’re looking for

• Around 10 years of corporate affairs / communications / public affairs experience.
• Experience working across corporate affairs, public policy, government affairs and media in the UK, either in government, political parties, civil service or consultancy.
• Strategic thinker who prioritises business outcomes.
• You are a team player with strong collaboration skills and a can-do attitude to blend into a multicultural, multi-functional work environment.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively and comfortably interact with all levels of management.
• You are adept at distilling complex ideas and communicating with clarity.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable to work under pressure.

The skills for success

Emotional intelligence, listening skills, writing skills, presentation skills, interpersonal skills, digital skills, research skills, time management skills, adaptability, stakeholder engagement and influence, strategic thinking, risk management, business acumen, leadership, brand strategy, relationship 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.

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