Design Excellence Lead Branding/Packaging – 12 month FTC 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.

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. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D, allowing local marketing teams to deliver on regional goals in partnership with Sales teams.

The Design Excellence Lead – Branding/Packaging is a highly skilled hands‐on design role, responsible for delivering exceptional branding and packaging solutions that drive Reckitt's category growth and brand equity. This role blends creative expertise with executional excellence, ensuring Reckitt's design outputs remain world‐class. The Design Excellence Lead collaborates closely with internal teams, external agencies, and cross‐functional partners to deliver impactful, high‐quality branding and packaging solutions.

Your responsibilities

• Hands‐On Design Execution & Creative Leadership: Develop and execute exceptional branding and packaging designs, ensuring consistency and alignment with category brand principles. Lead concept development and refinement, exploring new visual identities, materials, and structures. Create high‐fidelity packaging assets, including illustrations, typography, and structural design elements. Collaborate with external agencies to deliver best‐in‐class design outputs, ensuring Reckitt's brands stand out globally. Maintain a strong focus on consumer‐first design thinking.
• Collaboration & Cross‐Functional Influence: Work closely with Senior Design Excellence Managers, Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams to align creative work with strategic goals. Provide creative guidance and mentorship to junior designers and external partners. Act as a bridge between conceptual strategy and execution. Partner with supply chain and production teams to ensure feasibility, quality, and cost‐effectiveness of packaging design solutions.
• Brand Stewardship & Governance: Ensure all branding and packaging work aligns with established Brand Hubs, category‐wide identity systems, and activation guardrails. Maintain and contribute to the evolution of design standards, guidelines, and toolkits for Reckitt's brands. Stay ahead of emerging trends, competitor activity, and material innovations.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Explore new materials, printing techniques, and digital packaging innovations to enhance consumer engagement and sustainability. Participate in design research and ideation sessions to generate fresh concepts.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience in branding and packaging design, preferably within a global agency.
• Proven track record of executing world‐class branding and packaging solutions.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and packaging development tools.
• Experience collaborating with cross‐functional teams and external partners.
• Strong portfolio showcasing strategic, visually compelling branding and packaging work.

Skills

• Craft & Execution: Ability to deliver visually stunning, detail‐oriented packaging and branding work.
• Brand Stewardship: Ensures branding and packaging aligns with Reckitt's visual identity and category strategies.
• Collaboration: Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Execution‐Driven: Passion for creating world‐class branding and packaging, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Consumer‐Centric: Deep understanding of consumer behaviours and packaging interaction trends.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, 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.

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. 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.