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Global RPS Manufacturing Excellence Content Head

Reckitt

schiphol, netherlands

Posted on Oct 27, 2025

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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.

Supply

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. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

The Reckitt Production System (RPS) is a global transformation program that will touch all our people in the factories first, bringing TPM/WCM systems and practices. It is a challenging and at the same time exciting program, that has an incredibly high profile within our organization. Our central team is responsible for developing the systems for global deployment.

About the role

The purpose of this position is to develop content, tools and capabilities to guarantee a proper deployment of RPS across Reckitt, to support the fast expansion with high quality of execution, standardization and sustainability of RPS. Support the global excellence team to ensure RPS effectiveness for performance improvement and value added for the business.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for the Global Reapplication System of proven processes and best practices. Publication of success stories and monthly highlights, creator of RPS content, templates, guidelines that will facilitate the deployment and understanding of our Management System on a global scale.
• Co-Responsibility to align and develop training materials, playbooks and global standards to ensure the global and regional team is ready to support factories in the next phases.
• Align, design and support the delivery of regional and global TPM/WCM trainings, facilitators workshops, train the trainers, internal auditors, coaches’ course, senior leadership trainings, support the development of e-learnings and new learning platforms.
• Facilitates global or regional communities of practice, and overall guidance for skill matrixes and development plans of CI resources.
• Work closely with global and regional functions Safety, Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering Capabilities, Digitalization and Analytics teams to ensure alignment
• Prepares ad-hoc performance analysis, capabilities report, benchmark, prepare executive sessions and upward reporting

The experience we're looking for

• Engineering university degree
• + 10 years in Manufacturing / Operations, including leading front-line teams, industrial engineering
• Experience in FMCG Industry within a company that follows a structured approach as TPM (P&G, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, Heineken, InBev, Nestle, etc)
• Desired experience in Consulting Companies like EY, Mckinsey, Efeso, Capegimini, BCG, Falconi, Integration,
• Experience as a member of the leadership team

The skills for success

Technical Skills/Competencies

• Proven experience in Production/Manufacturing Management Systems
• Proved competence in leading Focused Improvement, problem solving
• Data management experience for collecting, integrating, analyzing and visualizing manufacturing data, setting up automatic data collection systems.
• Experience on providing coaching and training shop floor leadership and operators
• Experience in implementation of structured Loss Analysis / Annual targets setting / Monthly glidepath / Gap to Target reviews / Daily Target setting / Daily Operational Reviews
• Experience having worked in a global environment and with virtual teams
• Actively looks for opportunities to shorten reporting times, improves reporting skills of the team and improves efficiency of applications, in collaboration with Manufacturing Digitalization team.
• Excellent understanding of concepts like Lean Production, Agile Production, Value Stream Mapping, KanBan, MOQ, Capacity, OEE planned and unplanned losses, Validated Product Speed, Vertical Start Up, Innovation and New Assets Success Criteria.

Managerial Skills/Competencies

• Business Judgment, analytical skills, forward-looking to prevent risks to plan
• Proven leadership, interpersonal and communication skills for transforming operations from reactive to preventive and proactive, (e.g. from 60% OEE to 80% OEE by reducing losses).
• Ability to influence key stakeholders across geographies and functions, SC Directors and Factory leadership teams to change and apply proven ways of working, based on strong collaboration and hands on support to implement systems
• Actively looks for opportunities to shorten reporting times, develop data management skills of the team, improve adoption of applications and share points, in collaboration with Manufacturing Digitalization team.
• Traveling availability 30%

Languages:
• English: fluent

Key relationships:
• Internal: Plant Directors/Managers, Operational teams, Global/Regional SC Functions, Global and Regional Engineering, Regional Finance Teams.
• External: Contractors and Suppliers, Consultants, Digital platforms providers, Trainers, Benchmark factories, Manufacturing Excellence networks.

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.