Human Resources Talent Advisor - North America

Reckitt Benckiser • Parsippany, NJ

45d • $81,000 - $121,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Human Resources Advisor, Talent is responsible for executing core talent processes across North America, coordinating recruiting efforts (often via external agencies), providing data driven insights and recommendations, and partnering with business leaders on development planning, bench strength, and succession. This role ensures that talent practices are delivered effectively and aligned with business needs and strategic priorities. You will serve as a trusted HR advisor across the business, enable strong talent pipelines, and work closely with the Senior Human Resources Business Partner and Business Leaders to translate business needs into actionable programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology, or related field.
• ~2+ years of relevant experience in HR/talent roles, ideally in a multinational or matrixed environment.
• Experience managing or working with recruitment agencies and full-cycle recruiting.
• Prior exposure to talent review, succession planning, or talent management processes.
• Experience in analytics, reporting, and deriving actionable insights from HR data.
• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.) and experience with HRIS / reporting tools (e.g. Workday, SuccessFactors, etc.).
• Ability to translate data into compelling insights and narratives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills-comfortable engaging with senior leaders.
• Strong project management, organization, and prioritization capabilities.
• Judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity, with discretion handling sensitive talent matters.
• Change agent mindset, with ability to influence and drive adoption of new ways of working.
• Business acumen: able to understand business strategies, challenges, and translate into talent imperatives.

Nice To Haves

• HR certification (e.g. SHRM-CP, PHR, CIPD, etc.) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the operational delivery of talent processes (e.g. performance management, calibration, talent review, succession planning, promotions, career frameworks).
• Ensure consistency, compliance, and a high level of quality in process execution across the region.
• Partner with business leaders to embed talent processes into their unit plans and timelines.
• Serve as a point of escalation or advisory for complex talent cases (e.g. high-potential identification, poor performers, role transitions).
• Lead end-to-end recruitment for selected roles (especially critical / strategic roles), and act as liaison to external recruitment agencies.
• Define sourcing strategies, manage RFPs or agency SLAs, monitor agency performance, and ensure quality of candidate pipelines.
• Coordinate the recruitment process with hiring managers: requirement gathering, job description design, selection, interview process, offer negotiation and onboarding.
• Maintain recruiting dashboards / metrics (time to fill, quality of hire, cost per hire, funnel metrics) and provide regular updates to leadership.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret talent metrics (bench strength, internal mobility, attrition risks, promotion rates, diversity, etc.).
• Prepare regular reports (e.g. monthly/quarterly) and deliver insights to Senior HRBP, business leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Support forecasting and scenario modeling (e.g. talent demand vs supply, skills gaps).
• Monitor the strength of leadership and key role benches across business units.
• Partner with business leaders to review development plans, track progress, and surface potential risks.
• Facilitate talent discussions (e.g. leadership reviews, succession discussions), making recommendations on readiness, development needs, and deployment.
• Ensure visibility of high potentials and critical roles; where needed define programs or stretch assignments.
• Build credibility with business leaders, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and other functional teams.
• Act as a subject-matter expert on talent frameworks, process design, and best practices.
• Influence manager behavior to ensure adherence to processes and adoption of talent-minded thinking.
• Lead or support HR and talent-focused projects (e.g. redesigning career frameworks, upgrading tools, process improvement).
• Provide ad hoc analysis, scenario modeling, and problem-solving support as requested by Senior HRBP or HR leadership.

Benefits

• 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 recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results.
• You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
• Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more.
• Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees