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Trade Marketing Manager Finish & Vanish (Category Manager Household Care)

City:  Johannesburg

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

Elevate your career with Reckitt by stepping into a Trade Marketing Manager role. This pivotal position plays a strategic role in advancing category growth and in-store excellence across priority accounts. This position drives the implementation of category management strategies, including assortment, pricing, and promotions, to enhance brand visibility and sales performance. Through data-driven insights and close collaboration with commercial teams, the role defines KPIs, identifies opportunities, and delivers initiatives that strengthen market position and long-term customer value. Take this chance to nurture your career in a space where your influence will flourish.

Your responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of brand and category 4P execution, including P&L management and performance tracking
  • Support Trade Marketing leadership in shaping and delivering category and channel strategies
  • Lead monthly forecasting across brands, SKUs, and customers, using data-driven insights to inform decisions
  • Develop, execute, and evaluate promotional strategies with a strong focus on ROI, post-analysis, and optimisation
  • Drive distribution excellence by tracking performance, identifying gaps, and partnering with Sales to close them
  • Lead in-store execution, POS management, and innovation launches, while collaborating closely with Key Account teams to deliver category growth strategies to customers

The experience we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree Marketing, Strategic Marketing /Economics (or equivalent) required, with solid academic foundation.
  • 3 – 5 years’ FMCG experience in Sales/Key Account roles, plus ~3 years in Trade Marketing at manager level.
  • Strong experience within the FMCG industry considered highly advantageous.
  • Advanced computer skills, especially in Excel and PowerPoint, with proficiency in data tools (e.g., Nielsen, IQVIA, customer portals).
  • Good understanding of different customer channels (Modern Trade and Traditional Trade).
  • Strong financial acumen, including P&L ownership and ROI analysis for portfolio management.

The skills for success

Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product plannnig, Business accumen; financial accumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence, Trade Marketing

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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