Global Competitive Insights Manager in 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.

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight motivate us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, delivering category growth as well as a positive impact on society.

With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D, leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams.

Competitive Insights is part of the Insights & Analytics broader organization, and within the Category Growth Organization (CGO) at our central headquarter organisation (CHQ). The team is responsible for delivering strategic insights & competitor intelligence, primarily to senior management and global marketing teams, covering all Reckitt Core categories: Selfcare, Germ Protection, Household Care and Intimate Wellness.

The team acts as an internal consultancy – combining syndicated deliverables (WHISPER, WISE-UP, Market Pulse) as well as generating ad-hoc analysis to address key business questions and challenge thinking. The team has ownership of a very high quality, bespoke knowledge base maintained as a resource for the Competitive Insights team (Intellizone+).

We are looking for an enthusiastic professional with a track record of producing high-quality insightful analysis based on excellent communication, analytical capabilities and data synthesis skills. The right person will be self-sufficient, act on initiative and quick to adapt to new business challenges. He/She should bring innovative, ‘disruptive’ thinking to the team, in terms of research approach and ideally broad content knowledge that includes “Connected” / Digital, as well as relevant industry experience.

Crucial to the role is a strong understanding of Reckitt’s powerbrands as well as an outward focus and mindset in tracking competitor/industry activity. This gives Competitive Insights a unique position in the organisation, with learnings, conclusions and findings of the team used to drive key changes in Reckitt Core processes, organisation and strategy.

Your responsibilities include:

• Working with senior management and most functions across CHQ.
• Managing projects that can be either theme-based or related to specific Categories or Competitors.
• Owning continuous monitoring of a set of Competitors and Categories and creating thought insights/foresights related to these Competitors/Categories or topics.
• Research and analysis – both Theme and Competitor-based, managing and owning projects involving high quality insight-based research covering both existing and potential competitors – plus special interest topics.

Outputs of the research & analysis should challenge the business and warn of disruptive changes in the industry and competitive set, highlighting key opportunities and threats.