Head of Executive Search - Talent Acquisition (8-Month Maternity Cover)

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.

​Human Resources​

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced and influential Head of Executive Search - Talent Acquisition to join us on a 8-month maternity cover assignment.

Reporting to the Global Talent Acquisition Director, this role will lead our established Executive Search function, building on strong foundations to further strengthen our executive hiring capability, leadership pipelines and strategic talent partnerships across the globe.

This is a highly visible leadership role, partnering with Executive Committee members, Senior Vice Presidents and HR leaders to ensure Reckitt continues to attract, engage and hire exceptional leadership talent. You'll inherit a talented team, strong stakeholder relationships and proven ways of working, while bringing fresh thinking, market insight and expertise to continue evolving our approach.

Alongside leading the Executive Search team, you'll personally manage a portfolio of critical executive and CHQ searches, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and helping shape Reckitt's future leadership landscape.

Your responsibilities

• Lead and enhance Reckitt's global Executive Search strategy, ensuring alignment with broader business and people priorities.
• Partner with senior business and HR leaders to identify current and future leadership talent needs.
• Build and maintain diverse executive talent pipelines across functions, geographies and leadership levels.
• Deliver an exceptional executive candidate experience and strengthen Reckitt's reputation in the external leadership market.
• Personally lead a portfolio of executive and senior leadership hires, managing the end-to-end recruitment process.
• Own and manage relationships with executive search firms and strategic talent partners, including governance of the Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
• Utilise talent intelligence, market mapping and executive networks to proactively identify and engage top leadership talent.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing Executive Search team, ensuring consistent delivery and capability growth.
• Drive operational excellence across executive search, talent pipelining, recruitment marketing, diversity and inclusion, and internal mobility initiatives.
• Use data, insights and market intelligence to inform decision-making, measure success and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Partner with the wider Talent Acquisition Leadership Team to share best practice and contribute to strategic recruitment initiatives across the organisation

The experience we're looking for

This role requires a proven Executive Search leader who has both personally delivered complex executive searches and successfully led Executive Search teams within a global environment.

Essential

• Significant Executive Search experience, gained within a leading executive search firm, in-house executive recruitment function, or a combination of both.
• Proven experience leading and managing Executive Search teams, including coaching managers and building high-performing recruitment capabilities.
• A strong track record of delivering executive, VP, SVP and C-suite hires across multiple functions and geographies.
• Experience partnering with senior executives and HR leaders as a trusted advisor on leadership hiring and talent strategy.
• Deep expertise in executive talent mapping, succession planning, market intelligence and leadership assessment.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to quickly establish credibility and make an immediate impact within a complex global organisation.

Preferred

• Experience within a multinational FMCG, Consumer Health, Consumer Goods or similarly complex global organisation.
• Experience leading talent acquisition transformation, operational excellence or strategic change initiatives.
• A passion for developing teams, advancing diversity and inclusion, and elevating executive hiring outcomes.

If you're an experienced Executive Search leader looking for an opportunity to build on an already successful function, influence talent decisions at the highest levels, and lead a talented global team, we'd love to hear from you.

The skills for success

Strategic mindset, Courageous leadership, Storytelling, Data led storytelling, Change management, Employer branding, Talent assessment, Talent selection, Talent acquisition, Candidate experience, Leadership.

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.