Job Description

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.

Marketing Excellence

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Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

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The Designer - Illustration & Typography plays a key role in shaping the visual storytelling and identity systems of Reckitt's Powerbrands through bespoke illustration, iconography, and type design. Sitting within the Branding & Packaging discipline, this role delivers finely crafted assets that express brand personality, enhance consumer understanding, and elevate packaging and communication design.



This is a hands-on, midweight design role for a creative with strong illustrative ability and a deep passion for typographic detail. The designer will work closely with Design Leads, Senior Design Managers, and external partners to develop ownable visual assets that reinforce brand distinctiveness across global markets.

Your responsibilities

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1. Illustration & Iconography Design



Create custom illustrations, icons, and graphic elements that align with brand tone, positioning, and product benefits.



Support the development of visual storytelling frameworks, including packaging infographics and scientific visuals.



Design visual assets that enhance consumer navigation, education, and shelf standout.



Translate briefs into flexible, scalable graphic solutions for both digital and physical applications.





2. Typography & Lettering



Develop and refine bespoke letterforms, logotypes, and type systems for brand identity and communication.



Customise fonts and typographic layouts to improve legibility, hierarchy, and brand voice.



Work with Design Leads to define typographic principles for global toolkits and brand guidelines.



Contribute to the creation of multilingual or regionally adapted typographic systems, where required.





3. Visual Craft & Design Delivery



Work alongside Branding & Packaging designers to embed illustration and typographic solutions into full pack designs.



Deliver production-ready artwork with strong attention to vector quality, line weight, colour profiles, and resolution.



Ensure consistency across product ranges and brand families.



Maintain Reckitt's high standards for craft, originality, and executional excellence.





4. Collaboration & Governance



Collaborate with external illustration or lettering partners, where additional craft or scale is needed.



Align with the Global Head of Design Operations and Senior Activation roles to ensure artwork is deployable.



Contribute to the development of asset libraries and reusable design components.



Participate in reviews and critiques, continuously improving output and strengthening brand consistency.

The experience we're looking for

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Experience in illustration or typographic design, ideally within an agency or consumer brand setting.



Strong portfolio of custom illustration, iconography, and type-based design work.



Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and vector illustration tools.



Familiarity with packaging and brand identity systems is preferred.





Skills



Illustration Craft: Skilled in developing unique and expressive hand-drawn and digital artwork.



Typographic Sensibility: Strong grasp of hierarchy, layout, kerning, and custom lettering.



Brand Application: Able to translate brand positioning into visual storytelling.



Design Execution: Confident in producing artwork ready for both print and digital delivery.



Technical Precision: Well-versed in colour, resolution, and file preparation standards.





Mindset



Craft-Driven: Passionate about design quality, detail, and originality.



Collaborative: Comfortable working across disciplines and taking direction from multiple leads.



Inquisitive & Resourceful: Seeks inspiration and continuously improves personal design practice.



Brand-Led: Understands how illustration and typography reinforce brand worldbuilding.



Adaptable & Curious: Excited by new styles, formats, and cultural cues.

The skills for success

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Brand Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Creativity, Digital Marketing, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience.

What we offer

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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

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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.