RB is “fast-paced.” What do we mean by that?

If you have read others’ posts here on MyRBOppportunity.com or anything on our career opportunities site at ReckittBenckiser.jobs, you’ll see that we often refer to RB as a fast-paced organization.

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But what do we really mean when we say fast-paced organization?

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Fast-paced doesn’t just refer to our operational speed to market and quick and strategic innovation.  I believe we are also referring to the constant change we at RB as a culture face every day and our ability to adapt quickly to that change.

I think that change comes in two “forces of nature”: wind and earthquakes.

Wind is the change that pushes and challenges us to keep on our feet.  Earthquakes are more significant changes that truly rattle the foundation on which we stand and can more easily cause us to lose our balance.

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Like at most companies, we at RB are challenged by “wind” all the time in the form of new competitive launches and threats, higher savings goals for the organization or even tighter project deadlines.  Forming strong relationships and cohesion within our teams and developing our core skill sets help us to keep from losing our ground.

However, what I believe makes RB so fast-paced and different from other companies are the “earthquakes” and our ability to stay standing throughout each one.  At RB, your functional and cross-functional teams are constantly changing.  This is not just due to the fact that you are working on new projects with new people, but that people around you are constantly working their way into new opportunities within the organization meaning that your immediate team and day-to-day contacts may not always be the same month-to-month.  In addition, it is sometimes you who have worked your way into a new opportunity and a new team which may require a crash-course education in a new product category and more relationship building.
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For me personally, it has been a challenge to adapt to the changes, specifically when they involve my immediate team members with whom I have worked to establish strong working relationships, as well as friendships.
However, I have quickly come to learn that this fast-paced environment and culture, full of both wind and earthquakes, is a boot camp that not only is helping me grow as a professional much more quickly, but will serve me immensely as I continue along my career path here at RB.