Job Specifications
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.
Human Resources
Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.
About The Role
We are seeking an Early Careers Talent Manager to join our North America Talent & Learning team. Based in our Nutley, NJ office, this role will lead strategy and delivery for Interns and Grad Rotational Programs—owning campus partnerships, assessment & selection, onboarding, and program operations. You’ll drive brand presence, conversion, and retention, partnering closely with HR and senior business leaders across Marketing, Sales, R&D, Finance, Supply, and more. The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented Talent/HR professional with a strong background in talent acquisition, university recruitment, project management, and cross-functional collaboration, with a passion for people, relationships, and early talent development.
Your responsibilities
Strategy & Program Leadership:
Lead the North America Early Careers strategy across interns, and graduate rotational programs.
Define program architecture for rotational programs yearly, in alignment with business need and direction (e.g., duration, placements, locations, learning curriculum, assessment points, and graduation criteria).
Establish yearly operating plans and calendars covering attraction, assessment, selection, onboarding, training, events, performance checkpoints, and conversion.
Recruitment & Employer Branding
Own the campus/channel portfolio and events plan (target schools, diversity partners, professional associations, virtual events).
Act as lead employer brand ambassador; collaborate with Communications/Brand on social, digital, and content to drive impressions, applications, and offer acceptance.
Partner with career centers, professors, student orgs, and national networks to broaden reach and equity in hiring.
Assessment, Selection & Hiring Operations
Ensure high quality, fast, and fair processes from requisition to offer. Ensure high quality interview days/assessment centers, hiring manager enablement, offers, and preboarding.
Implement validated assessments and structured interviewing; train assessors; ensure consistency and mitigation of bias.
Program Management, Onboarding & Experience
Orchestrate intern and graduate orientation, learning agendas, case competitions, mentorship, and community-building.
Manage rotational assignments in partnership with HRBPs and functional leaders.
Enable high-quality performance and potential assessment through structured checkpoints, manager enablement, and development-focused conversations that support strong conversion and career outcomes.
Deliver high impact events (e.g., assessment days, immersion weeks, leadership panels, graduation ceremonies, alumni engagement).
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
Serve as the central point of contact for HRBPs, hiring managers, and leaders, influencing decisions with data and market insights.
Lead vendor relationships (core schools, assessment providers, event platforms, diversity partners); own contract reviews and records.
Leadership/Learning:
Design and continuously evolve our graduate leadership and learning offerings for interns and graduates to build the skills, mindsets, and capabilities needed for our future leadership pipeline.
Data, Insights, Compliance & Continuous Improvement:
Analyze key metrics and KPIs to ensure the continuous improvement of our Early Careers talent programs.
Budget Ownership:
Own and optimize the annual Early Careers budget; ensuring ROI of events, media, partners, and programs; reallocate to top performing channels.
The experience we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
Strong project/program management, event management, stakeholder influence, and communication skills.
Experience in corporate recruitment or managing talent programs.
Hands on experience managing Interns and Graduate rotational programs preferred.
Demonstrated experience with divers
About the Company
Every day, in everything we do, our purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. And we have a fight on our hands. A fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Each of our products is designed to do exactly this. Our well-loved brands have been making a difference to people’s daily lives around the world for more than 200 years. Brands including: Durex, Dettol, Enfamil, Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, N...
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