Strategy Associate - Fixed Term Contract (Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT) in Surrey

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 are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver 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 our 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. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

The Demand Centric Growth (DCG) team helps categories and markets grow by connecting consumer demand, market dynamics and commercial choices. This role owns the translation of complex insight into a set of clear strategic decisions that category teams can deploy with confidence. As a Strategy Associate, you will support high impact growth strategy projects by running rigorous analysis, building insight stories and helping senior stakeholders make confident decisions. You will work closely with Category, Markets and Insights & Analytics teams, contributing to projects that shape category strategies, innovation choices and go to market priorities. You will be reporting to the Strategy Manager or Strategy Director.

Scope:

• Global, cross category role with exposure to developed and emerging markets, influencing strategic choices from portfolio to activation.
• Supports one or more DCG workstreams at any time, balancing pace with analytical rigour.
• High interaction with senior category and functional leaders through working sessions, steering meetings, and strategy reviews.

Your responsibilities:

• Drive delivery momentum across Demand Centric Growth workstreams.
• Support end-to-end project delivery – from framing the business question and structuring the workplan, to synthesising recommendations and next steps.
• Keep inputs, actions and timelines moving by coordinating across functions and partners.
• Run analyses and build models that translate research outputs into practical implications for growth choices.
• Conduct market sizing and opportunity assessments using internal and external data, triangulating to build confidence in the ‘answer’.
• Create clear, compelling storylines and executive-ready materials that simplify trade-offs and convert complexity into decisions.
• Support stakeholder working sessions by preparing materials and capturing key decisions, actions and follow-ups to ensure adoption.
• Be part of brand building work that moves from insight to action – supporting recommendations that influence strategy, innovation in in-market execution.
• Track how choices play out in the real world, helping teams learn what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of DCG tools, templates and ways of working.
• Capture learnings and support knowledge management so work can be reused and scaled across categories and markets.

The experience we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree required, business, economics, engineering, statistics or related field preferred.
• Experience in strategy consulting, insights, analytics, or commercial roles, ideally in FMCG, retail, or consumer health.
• Comfort working with quantitative data and translating analysis into decisions for non-technical audiences.

Skills & Competency:

• Structured problem solving and strong analytical capability; confident in Excel and PowerPoint, with willingness to learn other tools.
• Clear communication and storytelling, able to tailor messages for senior leadership and broader project teams.
• Curiosity and external orientation; actively scans trends in consumers, channels and competitors.
• Collaboration and stakeholder management; builds trust, works well across functions and cultures.
• Bias to action; delivers under pace, manages ambiguity, and stays solution focused.
• Learning agility; seeks feedback and builds category and company context.

Please note that the duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment, which will require flexibility.

The skills for success:

• Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Product sustainability, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimization, Digital Marketing, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience.

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.