Reckitt
IT&D Senior Program Manager, PLM
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IT&D Senior Program Manager, PLM
Reckitt – Senior Program Manager – PLM (IT & Digital)
About 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—not a privilege.
Information Technology & Digital (IT&D)
In IT & Digital, you’ll be a force for good, whether championing cyber security, defining how we harness technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide innovation of consumer-loved products.
Working globally across functions, you’ll own your projects and ensure processes are delivered from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you’re willing to bring your ideas to the table, you’ll receive the support and investment to make them a reality.
Your potential will never be wasted. You’ll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there’ll be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders, through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. Because our work spans so many different businesses—from Research and Product Development to Sales—you’ll always be discovering new approaches.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced IT & Digital Senior Program Manager – PLM to lead the delivery of our end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) transformation.
In this role, you will:
- Oversee a complex portfolio of programmes spanning both legacy and future PLM landscapes, ensuring:
- Seamless delivery
- Strong governance
- Clear visibility of progress and value
- Work closely with senior IT&D and business leaders
- Play a critical role in evolving PLM into a product-led capability, enabling innovation, compliance, and operational excellence across the organisation.
This is a high-impact leadership opportunity at the centre of a strategic digital transformation, shaping how products are developed, managed, and delivered across their lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
Core Deliverables
- Lead the end-to-end PLM programme, ensuring projects and workstreams are delivered to:
- Agreed scope, timelines, and budgets
- Establish and maintain robust programme governance frameworks, including:
- Steering committees
- Executive reporting
- Manage programme financials, ensuring:
- Effective planning, tracking, and value realisation
- Develop and maintain integrated programme and workstream plans, ensuring alignment across delivery teams
- Define and track KPIs and OKRs to measure:
- Delivery performance
- Business value
- Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies across:
- Systems
- Platforms
- Business processes
- Ensure compliance with:
- IT&D quality standards
- Regulatory requirements (GxP) throughout delivery
Collaborative Leadership
- Partner with business and IT leadership to align delivery with:
- Strategic roadmaps
- Priorities -Manage relationships with:
- Executive sponsors
- External delivery partners
- Ensure successful outcomes across global operations
Team Support
- Lead and support delivery teams, providing:
- Guidance
- Direction
- Oversight across programme execution
The Experience We’re Looking For
- Extensive experience leading large-scale, complex digital transformation programmes, ideally:
- Within PLM or related domains
- Strong track record of operating in regulated environments (e.g. GxP) and ensuring:
- Compliant delivery
- Proven ability to manage:
- Programme governance
- Financials
- Risks
- Dependencies across global, matrixed organisations
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging:
- Senior executives
- Cross-functional teams
- Experience working with:
- External delivery partners
- Managing complex vendor relationships
The Skills for Success
- Deep understanding of:
- Programme and product management methodologies, including:
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Hybrid approaches
- Programme and product management methodologies, including:
- Strong leadership capability, including the ability to:
- Guide teams
- Drive alignment across diverse stakeholders
- Familiarity with:
- PLM processes
- Product lifecycle environments
- FMCG/healthcare sectors (highly desirable)
- Relevant qualifications such as:
- PMP
- Scrum Master
- Or equivalent programme management certifications (preferred)
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What We Offer
Career & Potential Growth
- Three years' education support in the UK, UK equivalent in other countries
- Support through career coaching and mentorship
- Rotational opportunities
Employee Wellbeing
- Parental benefits (including parental pay, organised childcare/creche/subsidised nursery schemes in many countries, family and health monitoring and support)
- Through our Employee Assistance Programme, we promote mental health and wellbeing, with easy access to dedicated counsellors and coaches.
- Life insurance for all employees globally.
Compensation & Performance Incentives
- Opportunity to save and share in global team rewards and share plans
- In many countries, we offer short-term incentives aligned with our pay-for-performance philosophy
Inclusion & Diversity
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, we support our people at every step of their career journey. We have a range of benefits to help you succeed, and a global culture committed to fairness and respect.
Reckitt recognises 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 feel 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, or national origin
- Religion, faith
- Pregnancy or 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 law
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