Product Manager, AI and Automation (Fixed Term Contract)

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.

​Information Technology & Digital​

We’re on a journey to exploit the most impactful AI and automation solutions to assembling application which will assist our colleagues in very specific activities they conduct every day. We will look to you to support transformation of their processes so that they unleash the potential of the Reckitt R&D teams through technology.

About the role

You’ll get to make an impact like never before, neither in Reckitt nor across FMCG market.  
You’ll be responsible for building your AI product’s short and long-term vision, strategy, and end-to-end value delivery across the full product’s lifecycle and its communication to maximises this value in line with business objectives.  

 

You will succeed because you ... 

…possess a unique combination of IT & AI/Machine Learning leadership skills; ability to operate with ambiguity in matrix structures (including people from different countries and companies) with a high sense of achievement through getting things done. You’re commercially astute and adept at interpreting complex data into easily understood communications. You’re evangelical about technology and can articulate the benefits to both IT and non-technical colleagues alike. You listen carefully, building trust and simplifying complex topics. Above all, you’re a leader who can motivate team and stakeholders, keen to find new ways to drive lasting benefits.

Your responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate and be responsible for the Product planning and co-ordination of complex and multicultural teams. 
• Align incremental planning to longer term roadmap and product’s goals both internally and externally to the team. 
• Work with the Change Manager to support and ensure successful adoption, stakeholder alignment, and seamless integration of change management strategies and plans. 
• Work closely with customers and stakeholders (technical and business, including Platform Team, Data Team, Cyber and Architecture members) to understand their needs and how they can be fulfilled through future product increments. You’ll also engage with them to gain their support and commitment for change initiatives.   
• Work with the Business Analyst to develop and design business scenarios and use cases. Those will create product’s backlog which you’ll manage and prioritise, to deliver as first the most valuable requirements. That will be possible by working with Product team to meet Reckitt's best practices including security, architecture, GxP compliance and Agile WoW.  
• Create and monitor of KPIs / value metrics to assure that aligned savings and agreed expectations are met.  
• Drive team and stakeholders to achieve continuous improvements with support of regular product performance reports on adoption rates, customer survey results, service performance metrics, etc. 
• Act as primary communicator and link between all stakeholders (program lead, customers, end users, business community, platform team, team supporting GxP, development team, system and/or solution architects, and CIO office) and the product, working with these individuals to align product goals with business objectives and the enterprise architecture strategy. 
• Coach team members (e.g., Data Scientists, Data Engineers, AI experts, Business Analyst) to focus on business value by delivering product increments in a flexible work environment. 
• Coordinate with other Product Managers and Product Line Managers across Reckitt on product dependencies. 
• Oversee relationships with selected vendors/suppliers involved in the delivery of development, testing, and support services. 
• Co-lead working sessions with users and collect user feedback. 

The experience we're looking for

• Can do attitude with a strong sense of urgency. 
• Excellent consultative approach to developing and managing cross functional and supplier relationships. 
• Ambition to perform unprecedented tasks and obtain new skills, be comfortable with uncertainty, and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. 
• Strong analytical and consulting skills, rooted in ability to draw and communicate insights from multiple data points. 
• 3+ years’ experience in IT & Digital leadership role. 
• 3+ years' experience in a complex IT programme and / or port