Senior Communications Business Partner, Supply Chain & Legal

Reckitt•Uxbridge, MA

13d

About The Position

We are Reckitt, a global company dedicated to protecting, healing, and nurturing in the pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Our Communications team is vital in building understanding, inspiring action, and creating connection. As the Communications Business Partner for Supply Chain and Legal, you will be central to two global functions. In Supply Chain, you will collaborate with senior leaders and teams across manufacturing, quality, engineering, procurement, and sustainability, shaping communications to engage employees and support transformation. For Legal, you will deliver strategic communications supporting the function and corporate priorities, acting as a trusted advisor to senior legal leaders. This role involves translating complex topics into accessible communications for both internal and external audiences, leading change communications, supporting crisis response, developing leadership messaging, and ensuring alignment with Reckitt’s corporate narrative and reputation objectives. You will develop and execute impactful communication strategies that highlight priorities, celebrate innovation, and help employees navigate change, strengthening culture, alignment, and pride.

Requirements

Experience in communications, corporate affairs, or employee communications, ideally within a complex global organisation.
Proven experience developing communications plans that reach large, networked and non-networked audiences and drive business outcomes.
Strong internal and external communications expertise, including leadership communications, employee engagement, and channel strategy.
Experience supporting major business change, transformation, or organisational programmes.
Understanding of external communications, including media relations, stakeholder engagement, reputation management, and government affairs.
Experience developing integrated communication strategies across internal and external audiences.
Demonstrated ability to build credibility and influence with senior leaders and leadership teams.
Experience coaching executives and senior stakeholders on communication effectiveness.
Strong content development capabilities, including speeches, leadership messaging, presentations, and strategic narratives.
Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear, compelling communications.
Experience working across global, regional and market stakeholder networks in a matrixed environment.
High levels of discretion, judgement, and comfort handling confidential or sensitive matters.
Strong writing, editorial, and channel management capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Strategic thinking and judgement
Stakeholder management and relationship building/influencing skills.
Leadership communications
Change and transformation communications.
Employee engagement
Media, reputation management, and public affairs awareness
Exceptional writing and storytelling
Business acumen
Collaboration and matrix leadership
Planning, prioritisation, and execution
Adaptability and resilience

Responsibilities

Lead the development and execution of an integrated communications strategy that supports Legal’s and Supply's business priorities, including Sustainability, and drives stakeholder and employee engagement.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic communications counsel, challenge and coaching to enhance leadership visibility and effectiveness.
Own communications across three key dimensions: Function to employee communications, Organisation to function communications, and Function to organisation communications.
Partner closely with the Corporate Affairs teams (Media Relations, Social Impact, Content & Channels, Government Affairs and Area (regional) teams) to align internal and external narratives, ensuring consistency of messaging across media, government affairs, reputation, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Support the development and execution of external communications opportunities, including leadership profiling, media engagement, thought leadership and public affairs initiatives where appropriate.
Develop and deliver communication programmes that support organisational change, transformation and key business initiatives.
Measure communication effectiveness and use insight and feedback to continuously improve impact and employee experience.