Global Supply Chain Quality Programme Manager City: 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. **​Research & Development​** In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance. We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality. The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation. **About the role** We're in search of a proactive Global Supply Chain Quality Programme Manager to join the Reckitt team, where innovation and science converge to make a real-world impact. You'll contribute to the growth of our trusted product portfolio, ensuring the highest standards of quality. Your expertise will drive activities from concept to execution, fostering an environment of continuous improvement. If you thrive in a dynamic atmosphere and are looking for a role where your actions directly contribute to the company's success, we would love to see your application. **Your responsibilities** - Responsible for maintaining and updating the global supplier QMS ensuring simplification and optimisation. - Co-ordination of global quality improvement projects in global supply chain quality. - Collaborating with the global compliance and performance team ensure global supplier quality, corporate audit and global distribution metrics are reported as per the timelines. - Proactively ensures KPIs for performance are reviewed and trended, identifying and implementing continuous improvement through simplified and efficient ways of working. - Generate vendor quality and distribution risks and provide updates for the V-tool. Escalate as appropriate supplier, distribution, or EMO risks to the Global Supply Chain Quality Director for escalation at the GQLT and associated regional LT. - Maintain and update the Vendor Heat Map and escalates risks at Regional Supplier Review meetings. - Strategic business partnering to Procurement Director for procurement excellence - Work with Corporate Audit and Vendor Quality Directors to ensure compliance verification activities are completed as per the timelines and any risks highlighted and remediated. - Escalation within GSCQ and procurement where compliance verification gaps exist and establish plans to remediate. - Ensure revised external manufacturing standards are cascaded to the EMO supply quality leads and monitors remediation activities to ensure completion to timelines to mitigate risks. - Co-ordinate the generation of all supplier & Vendor manuals and quality documents for the function. - Ensure SOP’s relating to GSCQ are maintained and updated where required. - Establish and maintain a collaborative partnership with internal functional managers - Prepare updates and support the Regional Supplier Quality Reviews the Supply Chain Quality Monthly Review meeting. Prepare updates for the Supply Chain Quality Quarterly management review. - Work to drive quality culture by executing programs and initiatives to promote quality culture. - Be the SME for the deployment of the Supplier Management module and external audit module in QualityOne. **The experience we're looking for** - An excellent understanding of supplier management, compliance and quality management systems - Strong leadership, partnership and facilitation skills, capable of working both vertically and horizontally within the organisation - Strong ability to think strategically, develop tactics, identify improvement areas with measurable implementation plans and able to transform solid thinking into action - Able to programme manage Global Quality Improvement Plans for Supplier Quality. - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Ability to work flexible working hours due to the different time zones associated with a global role. - Degree in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent. - Experience within a Healthcare or Nutrition environment - Strong leadership, communication, motivational and interpersonal skills and demonstrate Reckitt values. - Persistent and driven to achieve a final solution. A completer finisher - Strong networker with a continuous improvement mindset - Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising on deliverables - Capable of building strong working relationships and motivating teams to deliver outstanding results **The skills for success** Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management. **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. **Job Segment:** Counseling, Nutrition, Healthcare