Junior Buyer Reckitt Benckiser Group

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.

Your responsibilities

• Manage the sourcing of Contract manufacturing following broad policies and directions and factory specific SOPs.
• Have a direct impact in corporate measurements and results such as Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), Gross Margin (GM) and Net Working Capital (NWC).
• Manage activities to promote a healthy and low risk supplier base while ensuring compliance and business continuity for Reckitt
• Develop, and recommend the strategy, sourcing and contracting of local suppliers.
• Identify, select and develop supplier relationships, manage the negotiations within the assigned portfolio.
• Prepare the budget assumptions for the contract manufacturing spend and be accountable for managing delivery against those assumptions.
• Monitor and identify risks and opportunities in each sourcing process, drive mitigation and contingency plans to ensure continued supply of the materials/services
• Monitor market dynamics to exploit commercial advantages.
• Keep a sound relationship with suppliers at management levels so that Reckitt is seen as a preferred customer.
• Keep a sound relationship with regional and factory supply stakeholders in understanding needs and priorities to improve cost, service and new product developments.
• Design, verify and amend contracts in conjunction with the Legal department to protect intellectual property, minimize liabilities, exclusivity periods of innovation, material availability and cost improvements.
• Ensure governance which includes compliance to Global Operating Model, pricing and expense approvals, PPV reporting and analysis and full use of Ariba and Anaplan tools.