GBS - Deployment Planning Head - Supply

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.

About the role

As Deployment Head you will be leading the end-to-end deployment of the Central Planning Hub operating model across assigned markets, business units, or regions. Ensure successful implementation of planning processes, governance, tools, capabilities, and organizational change while maintaining alignment with global standards and business objectives.

Your responsibilities

1. Deployment Leadership
• Lead deployment activities for designated waves, regions, or business units.
• Develop and execute deployment plans aligned with overall transformation milestones.
• Ensure readiness across people, process, data, technology, and governance dimensions.
• Monitor progress, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
2. Stakeholder Management
• Build strong relationships with business leaders, functional teams, and local planning organizations.
• Act as primary point of contact between the Central Planning Hub program team and deployment stakeholders.
• Facilitate decision-making and escalation management.
• Drive alignment on deployment priorities and timelines.
3. Planning Process Standardization
• Implement standardized E2E Planning and IBP processes.
• Ensure adoption of global planning frameworks, governance, and KPIs.
• Identify local process gaps and manage approved deviations.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement opportunities.
4. Change Management & Adoption
• Drive organizational readiness activities.
• Support communication, engagement, and training plans.
• Champion the Central Planning Hub vision and operating model.
• Monitor adoption metrics and address resistance to change.
5. Data & Systems Readiness
• Coordinate deployment readiness for planning systems, master data, analytics, and reporting.
• Partner with technology teams to support testing, defect resolution, and user acceptance activities.
• Ensure business process requirements are reflected in system configurations.
6. Governance & Performance Management
• Track deployment KPIs and benefits realization.
• Facilitate governance forums and steering committee updates.
• Maintain deployment dashboards and status reporting.
• Escalate risks and mitigation plans proactively.

The experience we're looking for

Strong experince in Supply Chain, Planning, IBP, or Transformation Ecosystem.
Experience deploying planning operating models across multiple business units or geographies.
Experience with centralization or Global Business Services programs.
SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Anaplan, or similar planning platforms.
Large-scale transformation and change management experience.
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Demand Planning
Supply Planning
S&OP/S&OE
Inventory Planning
Scenario Planning
Program and project management experience.

The skills for success

• Deployment roadmap and wave plans
• Business readiness assessments• Stakeholder engagement plans
• Change and communication plans
• Training completion and adoption reports
• Deployment status reports
• Risk and issue logs
• Hypercare and stabilization plans
• Benefits realization tracking

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.