HR Business Partner, Northern Europe Commercial

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.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that brings 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.

At Reckitt, you will:

• Live our purpose: help us protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.
• Join our fight: Making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right, not a privilege.
• Be led by our compass: put consumers and people first; build shared success, seek out new opportunities, strive for excellence and do the right thing, always.

About the role

Reckitt is seeking an inspired HR Business Partner to join our dynamic team, utilising their strategic HR expertise to influence our fast-moving environment. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who thrives on developing talent and strategizing alongside senior stakeholders. Your role will be pivotal in nurturing potential and cultivating an empowering workplace that aligns with our ambitious business goals. If you're passionate about driving engagement and nurturing talent within a leading global company, we invite you to bring your expertise and grow with us.

The HR Business Partner will play a critical role in enabling business performance and leadership capability across the market. Key areas of accountability include:

• Strategic People Partnership: Provide end‑to‑end HR business partnering and ownership for the Field Sales and Early Careers populations, aligning people plans to commercial strategy, workforce capability, performance management, talent progression, and succession needs.
• Employee Relations: lead and participate in benchmarking and updating market compensation including recommendations to HRD.
• HR project work: that may span EUANZ.

The experience we're looking for

Skills

• Strong knowledge of UK labour legislation and employee relations landscape.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with leaders on all facets of the employee life cycle.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to understand the Reckitt business.
• Ability to align people initiatives and HR strategy with the business agenda.
• Driven to plan and execute on people initiatives per plan.
• Capacity to have courageous conversations with leaders, employees and leadership teams – speaking with openness and integrity.
• Ability to coach leaders and facilitate crucial conversations.
• Use people data to provide and drive action on business insights.
• Ability to prioritise.
• Role models Reckitt Leader Behaviours – Own, Deliver, Create and Care.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in HR, Psychology, Business, or related; or experienced deemed equivalent.
• Experience working in a highly commercial business is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in end‑to‑end HR generalist activities and ability to work independently as part of a geographically separate team.
• Commitment to driving diversity and inclusion.

Other duties as required

The skills for success

• Employee relations.
• Labour legislation.
• Strategic Mindset.
• Diversity and inclusion.
• Organisational structure.
• Coaching skills.
• Facilitation skills.
• Change management.
• Execute plans.
• Employment engagement.
• Digital literacy.
• Data and Analytics.
• Storytelling.
• Commercial acumen.
• Courageous leadership.

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.