Overview

Senior Buyer – Marketing Agencies (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.

​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

Are you a strategic thinker with an eye for detail and a knack for negotiation? Reckitt is looking for a Senior Buyer to tackle the exciting challenges of factory procurement. This is your chance to play a central role in sculpting procurement strategies and influencing the efficiency of our operations. You'll be in charge of bringing together the best in supplier management, process improvement, and cost optimisation. Join us to make a real difference in a company that's leading the way in health, hygiene, and home care.

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 implement 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. . 

Prepare assumptions to support business budgeting, where applicable. Over-deliver 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 candidate should: 

Strive to be recognised as a source of value by marketing stakeholders 

Promote the total cost of ownership approach within the business 

Implement Supplier Relationship Management & suppliers evaluation processes for suppliers in scope  

Enforce compliance of Procurement processes with Reckitt policies 

Provide assumptions on key trends and projects in pipeline for budgeting and plan purposes in alignment with Finance and budget owners 

The experience we're looking for

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

Minimum 4 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.

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