Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Essential Home

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.

In IT&D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process 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 get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

ESSENTIAL HOME

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team's purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we're shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Role Purpose:

As the IT&D Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, you will lead the creation of Essential Home's enterprise architecture strategy to align technology solutions with business objectives. Having selected a greenfield implementation of our new technology landscape, this role is one of the most critical for our business' future success. The role offers a unique opportunity to establish an enterprise architecture function from the ground up, creating frameworks and roadmaps that will shape the future technology landscape that enables Essential Home's business strategy.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can drive this function end-to-end, from vision and strategy to implementation and governance. You thrive in a dynamic environment; you are pragmatic, love a challenge and are action and result oriented.

This position requires a deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), cloud technologies, system integration, data architecture, application design, and emerging trends in Enterprise Architecture.

• Develop and implement a forward looking architecture framework that aligns technology investments with business goals.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps that drive scalability, innovation, and digital transformation.
• Work closely with the IT&D Architect, Platforms & Integration to ensure interoperability and scalability across the ecosystem:
• Define architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to allow an effective combination of speed, consistency and scalability across systems.
• Lead the governance process for technology decisions, not acting as a "review board" but being future-thinking and acting as an enabler of our wider IT&D and business strategy.
• Partner with business and IT&D leaders to understand needs and translate them into architectural solutions.
• Work closely with delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment.
• Provide mentorship, performance management, and skills development opportunities for team members.
• Oversee budgeting, procurement, and resource allocation for Enterprise Architecture technology and services.

• This opportunity requires you to create something new, not to upgrade or transform something existing. No one will tell you how to do it, so you will bring vision and thought leadership, while being pragmatic in the implementation.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset: self-starter with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
• You are collaborative and build bridges internally and externally.
• You have proven experience in the Enterprise Architecture space, preferably in the Consumer Goods sector.
• You have a deep understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and their practical application.
• You are experienced with cloud platforms (in particular Azure), system integration, data architecture, and application design.
• You stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends, such as AI, automation, and microservices architectures.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, and driving results.
• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Product Development, system development, Project Management, Programme Management, Design Thinking, Process Automisation, IT Service Management, Innovation Processes, Innovation, User Experience Design, Change Analyst, Change Management, Digital Transformation, Value Analysis, Change Management, Adoption, Technology Adoption Lifecycle, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Outstanding Communication, stakeholder engagement, Digital Strategy, Product Solution Architecture, Cyber Security Strategy, Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Product Compliance, Media Analytics, advertising, Consumer Engagement, Market Value, Market Chain, Data Driven Practices, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Governance.

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.

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.