Global Head of Environment

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.

About The Role: This newly created Global Head Of Environmental role will be instrumental in driving our environmental and sustainability agenda. The role will translate strategy into action, initially ensuring compliance with all legislation within the geographies we operate and compliance with Reckitt’s standards. Partnering with Regional and Site Directors, you will review compliance status, advise on challenges and help develop and deliver the site environmental masterplans. Your focus will be on delivering manufacturing locations that are compliant and building a future that supports our sustainability strategic agenda.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a Global Environmental strategy aligned with Reckitt’s global environmental and sustainability goals.
• Champion environmental priorities across manufacturing sites and R&D.
• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations in your geographical region.
• Lead environmental risk assessments and mitigation plans, including incident response and remediation.
• Support sites to ensure non-conformances identified in audit reports are closed on time.

• Collaborate on programs to reduce water usage, waste generation, carbon emissions.
• Support sites in scope to make sure they have an accurate and up-to-date list of environmental initiatives.

• Provide governance for the environmental KPIs and reporting systems.

• Partner with internal teams, external regulators and share best practices.
• Represent Reckitt in environmental forums and with local, regional authorities.

• Lead and develop a high-performing environmental teams across NA.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Engineering, Sustainability, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in environmental or safety leadership.
• Deep understanding of environmental regulations and sustainability frameworks (e.g., EPA, CEPA, GHG Protocol).
• Experience with environmental data systems.

Personal Attributes

• Passion for sustainability and environmental stewardship.
• Strong execution capabilities.
• Collaborative, influential, and able to navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced, dynamic organization.
• Strong understanding of how Environmental integrates into a manufacturing environment.
• Open-minded and creative in finding innovative, effective solutions to complex environmental operational challenges.
• Be a self-starter, motivated, proactive, and self-sufficient and comfortable working independently and remotely.
• Able to build effective working relationships that deliver results in wide range of environments and cultures.
• Have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to adapt communications to various audiences.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Able to put theory into practice by developing clear and pragmatic strategies that can be integrated into business processes.
• Ability to balance detail orientation with strategic perspective.
• Strong analytical and change management skills.

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.