Global Demand Planning Excellence Director in Slough

This job is with Reckitt, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. 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.

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics.

About the role: The Global IBP Excellence Director is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework across the enterprise. The role ensures a globally standardized IBP process that integrates commercial, supply chain, and financial planning to enable high-quality, data-driven decision making and delivery of business performance targets. The position leads the global IBP capability agenda, driving process excellence, planning maturity, and adoption of digital planning technologies across regions. The role partners closely with senior leadership across Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial functions to embed IBP as the core enterprise planning process.

Your responsibilities:

• Global IBP Strategy & Governance: Define and maintain the global IBP framework, standards, governance, and operating cadence. Ensure consistent implementation of IBP processes across regions and markets. Establish governance mechanisms to monitor IBP adoption, maturity, and performance.
• Enterprise Planning Integration: Ensure alignment between demand, supply, financial, and strategic planning processes. Drive integration of IBP into enterprise decision-making forums. Enable leadership teams to make fact-based trade-off decisions on demand, supply, inventory, and financial outcomes.
• Capability Development: Define and deploy the global IBP capability roadmap and maturity model. Build IBP capabilities across regional and market planning organisations. Establish global training, standards, and best practice sharing across the planning community.
• Planning Performance & Insights: Establish global performance management frameworks across planning KPIs including forecast accuracy, service, inventory, and bias. Drive advanced analytics, scenario modelling, and insights generation to support decision-making. Ensure consistent reporting and performance transparency across regions.
• Planning Transformation & Digital Enablement: Lead the global deployment and evolution of planning tools and digital planning capabilities. Partner with Digital, IT, and Data teams to drive adoption of advanced planning systems and analytics platforms. Support the development of next-generation planning capabilities including AI-driven forecasting and scenario planning.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with senior leaders across Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial organisations to ensure IBP is embedded in business planning. Facilitate enterprise-level decision-making on supply-demand balancing and strategic trade-offs. Act as the global subject matter expert for IBP and enterprise planning excellence.
• People & Organisation Development: Build and lead a global IBP excellence organisation. Develop planning capability pipelines and strengthen the planning talent ecosystem. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and analytical excellence.

The experience we're looking for:

• Typically 15+ years experience in Supply Chain, Planning, or Operations leadership roles.
• Extensive experience leading Integrated Business Planning (IBP) or S&OP processes in complex global organisations.
• Proven track record leading global transformation and capability development programmes.
• Experience operating in multi-region, matrixed organisations.
• Experience with advanced planning systems and digital planning transformation (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Anaplan) preferred.

The skills for success:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Enterprise Supply Chain Leadership: Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning and financial integration and strong business acumen and ability to connect operational plans to financial outcomes.
• IBP Expertise: Advanced knowledge of IBP governance, operating models, and maturity frameworks and ability to drive IBP as the enterprise decision-making process.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate enterprise strategy into integrated planning frameworks and strong capability in long-term planning and scenario-based decision making.
• Data & Analytics: Strong analytical capability with experience using data and analytics to drive insights and business decisions and experience with advanced planning analytics and digital planning platforms.
• Stakeholder Influence: Ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across global functions and strong communication, facilitation, and executive engagement capability.
• Transformation Leadership: Proven capability leading large-scale transformation and change programmes and ability to drive organisational adoption of new processes and technologies.
• People Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build high-performing global teams and strong focus on talent development and capability building.

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.

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.