Overview
Buyer – Marketing Content Production (Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT)
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.
About the role
Indirect procurement is leveraging Reckitt’s overall spend scale and its drive for global marketing excellence. With the restructuring of Reckitt and the new business models being deployed across Core, EH and Nutrition, the Buyer role will oversee the strategic sourcing of a sub-section of the following areas of marketing spend for the group: content creative and production services.
The role will have interfaces with our indirect supplier base to provide Reckitt with a competitive advantage globally. The job holder will also work closely with Area Procurement, CGO’s Marketing Excellence organisation, as well as marketers from all parts of Reckitt.
Supply
This position requires a highly motivated, well organised, flexible and pro-active Buyer to:
- Lead the procurement of a sub-section of the global category under the supervision of the Global Category Lead.
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Build and accelerate sustainable Procurement strategies for Global Categories under scope (across all KPIs including total cost, NWC, quality, service & innovation) through understanding of, and supporting internal stakeholders’ needs, professional sourcing approach, building effective relationships and alignment with stakeholders, increasing spend coverage by Procurement, and the development of Procurement skills in the Indirect Procurement team.
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Deliver year on year efficiency savings projects through a mix of strategic initiatives, ideations, mix and demand management, suppliers’ initiatives, procurement events.
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 relationships with shorter term initiatives
The skills for success
Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Supply Management, Procurement, Category Management Expertise.
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.
