Head of Security Operations

About this role

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.

Global Corporate Security

Our Global Corporate Security & Resilience function is dedicated to protecting Reckitt’s people, operations, assets, and reputation across an increasingly complex global environment. We partner closely with business leaders and functions across Reckitt to deliver intelligence-led, risk-based security and resilience capabilities that enable safe, secure, and resilient business operations worldwide.

This is an exciting time to join us as we help shape the future of the department and be part of something special.

As part of Reckitt’s strategic global plans for the future, we are looking for an experienced, proactive, innovative and focused individual for this senior leadership role within our Global Corporate Security team. This is a new role requiring strategic vision, operational expertise, and the ability to drive continuous improvement in a complex environment.

Reporting to the Global Director Corporate Security & Resilience, the Head of Security Operations is a global role who will lead a team responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving Reckitt’s global physical security policy, standards, assurance activity, asset protection, investigations and loss prevention frameworks. This role ensures the protection of people, assets, and operations across all sites, globally and throughout the extended supply chain. As a member of the senior leadership team, the role drives enterprise-wide security risk mitigation while leading a high-performing team of Corporate Security professionals.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the creation, rollout, and governance of Reckitt’s Physical Security Policy and associated global standards.
• Provide effective oversight of security governance processes, audits, assessments, and assurance activities to validate policy effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain a modern and future-proofed physical and technical security strategy (CCTV, Access Control, IDS), including governance, lifecycle management, integration, efficiency and performance measures.
• Drive global standardisation, compliance, and oversight of the design and implementation of physical security controls across Reckitt.
• Lead the European regional security team, managing budget responsibility, stakeholder relationships, and the implementation of global security standards across manufacturing, R&D, commercial and corporate environments.
• Ensure compliance with global and local regulatory security requirements through audits, assessments, reporting frameworks, KPIs and dashboards.
• Lead enterprise security operations, supply chain risk management and global investigations programmes, working closely with HR, Legal, law enforcement and external partners.

The experience we're looking for

• Progressive leadership experience in global physical security, ideally within manufacturing, supply chain or FMCG sectors.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-site operations and supply chain security in regulated environments.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and lead global, remote teams.
• Background in policy development and standards implementation.
• Experience with UK, European and US security regulations and best practices.
• Experience managing third-party security contracts and budgets.
• Degree in Security, Risk, Business or a related field and/or professional certifications such as CPP, PSP, CEM or CSyp.

The skills for success

• Strategic vision and enterprise alignment. Operational excellence and supply chain fluency
• Policy development and standards implementation
• Commercial acumen and supplier relationship management
• Leadership development and succession planning. Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional influence
• Crisis response and decision-making under pressure. Risk-based thinking and resilience planning
• Technology fluency and innovation mindset
• Cultural intelligence and global collaboration

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.

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