Buyer - Marketing Content Production

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.

**Supply**:

- Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

**About the role**:
Reckitt is on the lookout for an experienced Buyer who will take charge of our factory procurement with precision and passion. In this strategic role, you'll be the cornerstone of shaping cost-effective sourcing strategies and nurturing supplier relationships that are as robust as our products. Are you ready to flex your negotiation muscles and secure deals that propel us forward? If you're eager to make a substantial impact in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you

**Your responsibilities**:
Consolidate the spend and manage the spend category holistically, each with a vision and a playbook to co-author with the business partners.

Work closely with business partners and Procurement leadership in understanding needs, objectives and priorities to optimise total cost, NWC, quality and service.

Use standard category management tools to organise and structure knowledge, develop objectives and measure against agreed KPIs.

Design and iImplement sourcing strategies for identified sub-sections of the Category in order to achieve optimal supply base that will generate competitive advantage.

Identifying, selecting and developing suppliers, negotiating and contracting. Makes sure that the Reckitt business is fully leveraged with its Global scope.

Report in a timely manner on activities within the subsection of the Category and escalate to the right forum to gain support.

Identify risks and opportunities involved in each sourcing process. Drive the organisation to mitigate identified risks using state of the art techniques. Push the organisation to move towards opportunities adopting creative solutions.

Identify, gain support for, and drive quality and service improvement strategies..

Support in the Preparation of assumptions to support business budgeting, where applicable. Support in the over-delivery against those assumptions.

Follow marketing trends and innovation space and scout for insights.

Build and maintain a strong relationship with suppliers in scope. Motivate suppliers to treat company as a preferred customer.

Build appropriate templates and utilise various metrics to provide better insight into the subsection of the category. Leverage appropriate external sources to strengthen the viewpoint and problem solve situations.

Embed DEI and sustainability goals into the roadmap for the category sub-section.

**The experience we're looking for**:
Delivery of sustainable results in a rapidly changing category, implement spend discipline and bring savings to the bottom line

Proper usage of global leverage and sourcing, maximising global results while keeping a good balance and distribution of results among the Areas/regions/local markets

Rapid and substantial digital transformation of marketing solutions

Management of 3 Business Units individual needs whilst striving to deliver global solutions.

Balancing a heavy workload with multiple priorities

Qualifications and Professional Experience

Minimum bachelor’s degree in a related field such as marketing, finance, business or procurement / supply chain management

Minimum 2 years' work experience

Proven experience in working in a fast moving and result driven environment which demands to work under pressure

Experience with leading cross-functional, sourcing projects

Experience in negotiation techniques with good interpersonal and relationship building skills

Strong ability to understand, analyse and present data to support a proposed recommendation is essential to this role

High degree of fluency in English is required for negotiation and internal communications

Communicates in a very clear and structured way verbally and in writing

Experienced with balancing long term relationsh