Senior Communications Business Partner, Supply Chain & Legal

City: Uxbridge

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Corporate Communications & External Affairs

At Reckitt, communications is more than sharing information, it's about building understanding, inspiring action, and creating connection. As Communications Business Partner for Supply Chain and Legal, you will sit at the heart of two global functions.

In Supply Chain, you will partner with senior leaders and teams across our manufacturing, quality, engineering, procurement, and sustainability operations. You will shape communications that engage our networked and non-networked employees, support transformation and connect people to the role they play in delivering better health in more hands.

For Legal, you will deliver strategic communications that support the function and broader corporate priorities. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior legal leaders, the role develops clear, engaging, and business-focused communication strategies that strengthen understanding of legal priorities, policies, governance, compliance, and risk-related initiatives across the organisation.

The role partners with Supply, Legal and Corporate Affairs to translate complex topics into accessible communications for internal and external audiences. This includes leading major change communications, supporting issues and crisis response where required, developing leadership messaging, and ensuring communications align with Reckitt’s corporate narrative, culture, and reputation objectives.

You will develop and deliver impactful communication strategies that bring Supply's and Legal’s priorities to life, celebrate innovation and operational excellence, and help employees navigate change with confidence. From amplifying stories of performance and transformation, digitalisation/automation, and continuous improvement, to driving engagement around key business initiatives, you will help strengthen culture, alignment, and pride across the functions.

About the role

You will be the strategic communications lead for both functions, partnering closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver communications across Supply and Legal.

Supply Chain is home to more than 14,000 employees in 58 countries around the world, many of whom are not in desk-based roles. Reaching this audience, working closely with our content & channels team, will be a key focus for this role.

This is a true 360-degree communications role, combining strategic counsel with understanding across internal and external communications. Success in the role requires someone who is equally comfortable influencing senior leaders, shaping strategy and rolling up their sleeves to deliver high-quality communications in a fast-paced, lean team environment.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of an integrated communications strategy that supports Legal’s and Supply's business priorities, including Sustainability, and drives stakeholder and employee engagement.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic communications counsel, challenge and coaching to enhance leadership visibility and effectiveness.

• Own communications across three key dimensions:

  • Function to employee communications – ensuring employees understand the Supply and Legal strategies, priorities, and performance.
  • Organisation to function communications – translating enterprise-wide priorities, initiatives and messages for both functional audiences.
  • Function to organisation communications – elevating instances of executional excellence, by sharing the achievements, expertise, innovations and strategic contribution of both functions across Reckitt.

• Partner closely with the Corporate Affairs teams (Media Relations, Social Impact, Content & Channels, Government Affairs and Area (regional) teams) to align internal and external narratives, ensuring consistency of messaging across media, government affairs, reputation, and stakeholder engagement activities.

• Support the development and execution of external communications opportunities, including leadership profiling, media engagement, thought leadership and public affairs initiatives where appropriate.

• Develop and deliver communication programmes that support organisational change, transformation and key business initiatives.

• Measure communication effectiveness and use insight and feedback to continuously improve impact and employee experience.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience in communications, corporate affairs, or employee communications, ideally within a complex global organisation.

• Proven experience developing communications plans that reach large, networked and non-networked audiences and drive business outcomes.

• Strong internal and external communications expertise, including leadership communications, employee engagement, and channel strategy.

• Experience supporting major business change, transformation, or organisational programmes.

• Understanding of external communications, including media relations, stakeholder engagement, reputation management, and government affairs.

• Experience developing integrated communication strategies across internal and external audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to build credibility and influence with senior leaders and leadership teams.

• Experience coaching executives and senior stakeholders on communication effectiveness.

• Strong content development capabilities, including speeches, leadership messaging, presentations, and strategic narratives.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear, compelling communications.

• Experience working across global, regional and market stakeholder networks in a matrixed environment.

• High levels of discretion, judgement, and comfort handling confidential or sensitive matters.

• Strong writing, editorial, and channel management capabilities.

The skills for success

• Strategic thinking and judgement

• Stakeholder management and relationship building/influencing skills.

• Leadership communications

• Change and transformation communications.

• Employee engagement

• Media, reputation management, and public affairs awareness

• Exceptional writing and storytelling

• Business acumen

• Collaboration and matrix leadership

• Planning, prioritisation, and execution

• Adaptability and resilience

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.

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