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. 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, 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.

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.
• Creating thought insights/foresights related to these Competitors/Categories or topics.
• Delivering outputs of research & analysis that challenge the business and warn of disruptive changes in the industry.

Research and analysis involves:

• Managing and owning projects involving high quality insight-based research covering both existing and potential competitors.
• Delivering output/conclusion in presentation format.

Competitor Reporting & Tracking includes:

• Delivering insights to senior management.
• Writing knowledgeably on competitors/categories.
• Analysing key financials for competitive set and reporting regularly on performance.
• Managing defined areas of Competitive Insights portal.

Communication and building networks for Competitive Insights is essential. You will need to be an advocate for the team, marketing and reinforcing the role and activities of Competitive Insights.

The experience we’re looking for includes:

• Extensive work experience in a Competitive intelligence, Consulting or Strategic Planning function ideally with OTC or FMCG industry experience.
• Business/Marketing or Science Degree, ideally followed by business qualification or equivalent.
• Exposure to an international marketing environment.
• Conceptual understanding of key business problems.
• Broad based business understanding.
• In-depth knowledge of key information sources.
• Impactful Communication Skills.
• Advanced analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and willingness to learn analytics tools like PowerBI.
• Innovative & creative mindset.
• Strong attention to details.
• Stakeholder Management Skills.
• Collaborative mindset, self-motivation and pro-activity.
• Intellectual curiosity.
• Fluent in English plus other languages desirable.

The skills for success include Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimization, Digital Marketing, Brand activation, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, P&L management, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience.

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.

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.