Sales Trainee (Belgium Market)

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.

​Sales​

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online.

Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

Launch your career in sales with a dynamic role at Reckitt! This is not your average sales role; it's a springboard into understanding the fast-paced world of sales from the inside out. As a trainee in our sales organisation, you'll learning about analysis, 4P strategy and customer engagement. You'll gain hands-on experience across diverse brands and play a supportive role in driving our business objectives.

Your responsibilities

• Support the Key Account Managers by preparing reports and analyzing sales data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Assist in tracking promotional activities and evaluating their effectiveness using tools like Nielsen.
• Help with pricing updates, order tracking, and ensuring promotional materials are aligned with plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Marketing and Supply to gather insights and support account execution.
• Gradually take on more responsibility as you become familiar with tools and processes, gaining exposure to real-time commercial strategies.

The experience we're looking for

• Pursuing a degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field, and eager to forge a path in sales.
• Fluency in English. French or Dutch will be considered a plus.
• Excellent analytical skills, written and oral skills, as well as creativity.  
• Flexible thinker being able to operate in a changing environment and cope with complexity.
• Results-oriented, entrepreneurial, and self-motivating.
• Tenacious and resilient.
• Eager to learn.
• Strong commercial understanding of business issues/opportunities.

The skills for success

Work under pressure, Excellent writing skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills stakeholder management, organised.

What we offer

• Great opportunity to learn to work in a FMCG, international environment.
• Responsibilities from day 1.
• 6 months traineeship agreement with the possibility, with outstanding personal performance, to enter Reckitt a full time role and grow further.

• Location: Brussels
• Start Date: July 2025
• Competitive salary of €980 per month. 

Each adventure with Reckitt is different – It’s up to you to play! Join us!

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.