Senior Security Governance Manager
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.
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Our Workplace and Facilities Management team plays a pivotal role in creating and delivering a positive and successful employee experience across our real estate portfolio. We're proud of how our sustainability efforts minimise energy consumption, reduce waste and promote ecofriendly practices, all while orchestrating best-in-class facilities for our people.
We're here to create inspiring spaces that our people want to be in, providing a conducive, inclusive and productive work environment, always thinking about workflow efficiency, employee comfort and collaboration. Our team optimises the use of physical spaces, ensuring that we align with organisational goals.
This can include defining and evolving our workplace strategy, managing office layouts, seating arrangements, meeting rooms and the associated services required to ensure the successful day-to-day operation of our facilities including the physical assets such as furniture, equipment, and infrastructure.
About the role
As the Senior Manager - Security Governance & Analytics, you will lead the development of Reckitt's global security governance, assurance and performance analytics capability. You will establish the frameworks, data standards, systems and reporting processes needed to provide a consistent, evidence-based understanding of security risk, control effectiveness and organisational maturity across Reckitt's global operations.
Reporting to the Head of Security Operations, you will combine governance and assurance expertise with strong analytical and digital capabilities to develop scalable solutions that integrate security information, automate reporting and provide actionable management insights.
Your responsibilities
- Security Governance & Assurance Frameworks. Lead the development and continuous improvement of Reckitt’s global security governance, assurance, and compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management and business objectives. Define consistent controls, evidence requirements, assurance methodologies and accountability for corrective actions.
- Security Risk Management & Control Effectiveness. Support the integration of security risk management processes into global operations, overseeing security assessments, assurance reviews, control effectiveness and maturity evaluations across multiple sites and regions. Establish consistent scoring, evidence standards and assess how well security controls are working.
- Security Data, Analytics & Performance Reporting. Lead the development of Reckitt's global security data and analytics capability, establishing consistent data definitions, quality standards, reporting methodologies and performance measures. Design and oversee the implementation of integrated dashboards and automated reporting solutions that consolidate security risk, incident, assurance and compliance information into reliable management insights. Develop evidence-based maturity assessments and trend analysis to support prioritisation, investment decisions and continuous improvement.
- Policy, Standards & Regulatory Compliance. Maintain the security policies, standards, procedures, and governance mechanisms that support consistent implementation of security requirements across Reckitt’s global footprint. Own the functional document-control framework, including version control, approval, publication, review cycles, retention and access requirements.
- Governance Reporting & Strategic Insights. Design and own the security management information framework, including common data definitions, KPIs, automated dashboards, control and maturity metrics, incident trend analysis and executive reporting. Translate validated operational, risk and assurance data into balanced, actionable insight on Reckitt’s global security risk posture, programme effectiveness, compliance performance and maturity progression, including visibility of data quality and confidence.
- Digital Enablement, Automation & Responsible AI. Identify and lead opportunities to use approved digital technologies, workflow automation and AI-enabled tools to improve data quality, reporting efficiency, knowledge management and the effectiveness of the security governance processes.
- Security Knowledge & Document Platforms. Define the structure, ownership and governance for Corporate Security’s intranet, controlled document library and knowledge resources; oversee their accuracy, discoverability and ongoing maintenance through agreed content owners and support arrangements.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration. Partner with regional security teams and key stakeholders across Facilities, H&S, Supply Chain, Procurement, IT, Cyber, Data Protection, enterprise risk and business leadership to strengthen governance adoption, improve resilience, ensure dependable data flows and support strategic priorities.
The experience we're looking for
- Significant experience in governance, risk management, assurance, compliance or operational controls within a complex, multi-site or global organisation, with a strong understanding of risk-based governance and control effectiveness.
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing or improving governance, risk, assurance or compliance frameworks across complex organisations, supported by effective management information and reporting processes.
- Proven experience developing data-driven reporting and analytics capabilities, including translating fragmented operational, risk or assurance data into reliable management information, establishing consistent metrics and data-quality controls, and producing dashboards and actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Experience leading or contributing to the design, implementation or improvement of governance, risk and compliance platforms, reporting systems, structured information repositories or document-management solutions, with a focus on scalable processes and reporting automation.
- Experience conducting or overseeing risk assessments, audits, assurance reviews or maturity evaluations across multiple sites or business functions, and using findings to identify priorities, track corrective actions and drive measurable improvement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information, identify trends, challenge data quality and translate findings into practical recommendations and management decisions.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively across complex, matrixed organisations, including with operational teams, technology specialists and other business functions.
- Experience leading or supporting governance improvement, digital transformation, reporting automation or operational improvement initiatives, demonstrating the ability to translate business requirements into practical and sustainable solutions.
The skills for success
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Governance and assurance capability
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Risk-based thinking and decision-making
- Policy development and standards implementation
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.