Indirect Procurement Manager

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.

**Procurement**:
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**:
Join Reckitt, a global leader in consumer health and hygiene, as our Procurement Manager for Non-Production Spend (NPS). Lead the charge to drive innovative procurement solutions that will streamline our operations and contribute to our sustainability efforts. In this forward-thinking role, you'll be pivotal in crafting procurement strategies that support our company's ambitions, while optimising costs and nurturing solid supplier partnerships. This is an opportunity that combines strategic vision with tangible achievements - a role where your influence extends beyond procurement, touching every facet of our business.

**Your responsibilities**:
Manage the budget, set category strategy, and deliver savings for local indirect spend excluding Working Media but, including:

- Local categories: promotional displays, local marketing spend, manage commercial fixed costs
- Support some key global categories such as: copy production, market research, creative agencies and manage commercial fixed costs.
- Support all key projects. Owner of the sourcing recommendation and therefore influence the sourcing decisions

Compliance
- Drive compliance of the purchasing policies and increase procurement involvement coverage. Also responsible to monitor Supplier’s financial situation. Identify potential risks and take proper actions.
- Responsible for the contracting with the suppliers and increase the number of contracts covering the spend.
- Usage of Ariba platform to appropriately submit any business allowance for approval

Financial deliverables
- Track and report savings and NWC progress on a monthly basis using the NPS Tracker
- Work with local and regional Finance Team to validate and secure savings in the P&L
- Increase Payment Terms whenever possible via direct negotiations or sourcing changes to more favorable suppliers

**The experience we're looking for**:

- 5+ years’ work experience in Procurement Department in an international company; previous experience in FMCG company will be a plus
- Proven Category Management expertise, within Indirect, ideally with exposure across Marketing and Facility Management
- Familiarity with leading complex, cross-functional, sourcing projects
- A high degree of fluency of **English & French **is required for negotiations and internal communications; knowledge of other languages is a plus

**The skills for success**:
Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Distribution Logistics, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Category Management Expertise, Supply Management, Procurement.

**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 do