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Indirect Commercial Procurement Manager ASEAN

City: Bangkok

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

• The position is based in Bangkok and will be managing Indirect commercial spend for Reckitt ASEAN, including Mead Johnson business unit.
• Team management : 5 direct reports based in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philipines, Thailand (Thailand: 1 direct report who has 1 team member)
• Responsible for leading indirect commercial spend in ASEAN initiatives covering Marketing/Sales investment and Commercial Fixed Costs.
• Develops category strategies aligned with internal key stakeholders that drive total cost savings, and increases spend under Procurement management.
• The role will utilize spend analytics, sourcing management processes, negotiate all terms and conditions, secure signed contracts, manage key supplier relationships, ensure continuity of business.
• Leads key country initiatives, as well as selected projects or categories of spends with potential for country consolidation.
• The position has a direct impact on corporate measurements and results such as COP and NWC.

Your responsibilities

• Develops and drives implementation of ASEAN sourcing strategies for indirect commercial categories.
• Fully accountable for the portfolio strategy and delivery of aligned targets.
• Senior stakeholder management: i understanding needs, objectives and priorities to optimize total cost, quality and service.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and works cross-functionally in developing and executing sound sourcing strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders, global procurement team and vendors.
• Understands indirect procurement categories across the business, analyses category markets and translates into actionable strategies and forward-looking analyses.
• Generates productivity initiatives through scope optimizations, should-cost modelling, ROI based approach, negotiations and category and supplier consolidations.
• Develop & manage commercial category roadmap such as Medical Marketing, POSM, Events, Premium, GWP, Social & Digital content creation and ecommerce to drive long-term growth.
• Manage requisition in compliance with Divisional below and above Clip level and Auto work on requirements ensuring compliance with local / global SOPs and guidelines,
• Support Reckitt procurement digitalisation journey by fully utilising data, analytics, and tools.

The experience we're looking for

An educational background in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
Proven Category Management expertise and procurement experience
Integrity and business acumen. Must be able to take control and be accountable.
High degree of autonomy as the procurement functional lead in the region. The successful candidate must be able to operate independently, make informed decisions, and provide strategic guidance while ensuring alignment with global and regional procurement standards.
Comfortable with dealing and managing senior internal stakeholders as high level of exposure to local leadership team.
Communication skills, including fluency in spoken and written English.
Ability to work in a truly global organization. Proven experience in working in a fast moving and result driven environment which demands to work under pressure and be flexible in the face of changing priorities
Strong negotiation, interpersonal and organization skills
Proficiency with Microsoft tools and ability to analyze and make sense out of large data sets.
Competent in using modern procurement software and tools, enhancing the effectiveness of your role.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, 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 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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