Company Name: Reckitt Benckiser
Website: http://www.reckittbenckiser.jobs/graduates/index.h
Locations: Slough [Global Headquarters], Derby, Nottingham, Hull

Opportunities

Internships: To us people are investments for long term future success. For that reason we do not currently accept students and graduates into the business via this route.

Part-time work: To us people are investments for long term future success. For that reason we do not currently accept students and graduates into the business via this route.

Graduate roles:

In a real sense, our business depends on you, so once you’ve joined your career development is paramount.

We’ll give you a unique experience. You’ll enjoy real roles delivering real results, truly international opportunities, and targets that test your abilities. It’s a steep learning curve, and you’ll be expected to use your initiative constantly. At the same time though, you will always be surrounded by a valuable pool of talented people to coach you through the tougher challenges.  

You can expect your efforts and results to be well rewarded. The prizes on offer here include a global career, the genuine prospect of becoming a functional leader and the opportunity to add to the collective passion that drives our outstanding results. It’s an exciting journey, and one for which you need to be very well prepared - personally, academically and professionally.  

Whether you join us in sales, marketing, finance, HR, IS, R&D, or supply chain, you’ll share certain characteristics with all our graduates. You’ll be a high achiever - both academically and in your extra-curricular activities. You’ll have senior management potential thanks to your high intellectual capacity, international perspective, creative approach and confidence. And you’ll also have a desire to develop a broad palette of business skills rather than becoming a narrowly-focused technical expert.

Placements:

Students undertaking an industrial placement year are more than welcome to join us here for a year in our Research and Development departments. 

We’re divided into three key groups. First, New Technologies - a forward-looking global team that aims to anticipate the future needs of our consumers and seek out new technology to deliver solutions. Second is Category Development, which works with marketing to get new products to launch within three years. And thirdly Scientific Services, formed of local and regional teams who focus on products that are already launched and on the market. These teams use their technical expertise for a range of projects, from developing a local-need flavour change to delivering a ‘Squeeze’ cost-saving initiative.   

You will spend time working in one of these areas making a genuine difference to products like Vanish, Finish, Dettol, Veet and more making a gubiene difference to consumers putting into practice all your knowledge in to real life commercial situations.  

About us and our work with Bright Futures

Reckitt Benckiser is a global success story: a world leader in the global household, health and personal care sectors.     

Our vision

Reckitt Benckiser delivers better solutions in household, health and personal care to consumers, wherever they may be. We do it through constant innovation. We look at the little things that drive people mad in their everyday life. Then we deliver brilliant, fast-acting solutions that help make life better and easier - and create outstanding shareholder value in the process.   

Our future

In the future we’ll continue our relentless focus on powerful brands in fast-growing categories. We’ll keep delighting consumers with solutions to everyday problems. Our people, highly motivated and well rewarded, will continue to enjoy real ownership of their achievements. Meanwhile we continue to look for talented, entrepreneurial and dynamic people worldwide to hit the ground running. Opportunities range from professionals in sales and marketing, manufacturing and supply chain and IS to experts in finance, HR and R&D.   We are only looking for true talent: people hungry for the opportunity and freedom to make their mark. It’s going to be an exciting journey - and you could be part of it.     

Out of the everyday, ordinary problems our consumers face we’ve created an extraordinary business. We understand our consumers and offer them innovative solutions and products that make life that little bit easier.

We focus on the fastest growing categories where there is a real consumer need. We then search for continuous development and innovation - it’s the engine that drives our growth.  Our energy is focused on our 17 Powerbrands - globally recognised success stories - that between them account for nearly two-thirds of our income and 85% of our growth.

Our R&D is effective and productive and our marketing spend is at the top of the industry. It’s a strategy that delivers results.  Here’s an example: our leading fabric treatment product Vanish used to be No.1 in the UK. Now it’s No.1 in 43 countries worldwide. That makes it No.1 globally too. It’s no exaggeration to say that we want a Reckitt Benckiser brand to be number one in every market in which we compete. We’re getting there as well - now more than 90% of our portfolio is made up of No.1 and No.2 brands across three key sectors.     

Why work for us

Our offer is simple - bigger, better and more competitive opportunities to develop a rewarding career at the very forefront of FMCG. We are listed on the UK stock exchange and rank 23rd in the FTSE 100.  Our success is led by our Powerbrands - big-name brands like Finish, Vanish, Dettol and Veet that aim to achieve global market leadership. Through them we’ve become No.1 in the vast majority of markets and categories in which we compete. Backing up our Powerbrands is a great portfolio of local hero brands. We operate in no fewer than 60 countries, while our brands are sold across 180. Our people are the power behind these brands - around 23,000 talented, driven and entrepreneurial individuals, all working together.