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Regional Sales Manager - South

City:  Johor Bahru

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

The Regional Sales Manager (RSM) – South Region is responsible for driving sales growth & target achievement, distributor management, ensuring flawless in-market execution across all channels.

Your responsibilities

1. Deliver Sales Growth & Commercial Target Achievement

  • Own and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets for the South Region.
  • Develop and execute regional sales strategies to maximize volume, value, and market share.
  • Track sales performance and implement corrective actions to address gaps.
  • Drive category growth in priority channels (LKA & Top stores, Provisions)

2. Distributor Management

  • Manage day‑to‑day distributor operations, ensuring optimal stock availability, order fill rates, and inventory health (DB scorecard)
  • Lead distributor sales representatives to achieve coverage, productivity, and execution KPIs.
  • Conduct monthly distributor business reviews (DBRs) & all execute all DB operating model meetings to monitor performance, financial health, and ROI.
  • Ensure adherence to company policies on pricing, credit management, and trade investments.

3. Field Execution Excellence

  • Ensure SFA (Sales Force Automation) and MFA (Merchandising Field Automation) tools are fully adopted and achievement of relevant target KPIs.
  • Conduct regular market visits to audit execution across channels and identify improvement areas.
  • Monitor competitor activities and provide actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

4. Team Leadership & Capability Building

  • Manage and coach the regional sales team (Sales Supervisors, sales representatives, Field operations)
  • Conduct field coaching to strengthen selling skills and in‑store execution discipline.
  • Build a high‑performance culture with clear KPIs and frequent performance reviews.

The experience we're looking for

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Minimum 5–7 years of sales experience, with at least 3 years in managerial role.
  • Must have strong understanding of South market, including established relationships with key retailers, distributors, and trade partners.
  • Demonstrated success in managing distributors and field sales teams.
  • Strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and execution discipline.
  • Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders.
  • Must be willing to be based in Johor.

Key Competencies

  • Sales Leadership
  • Distributor Management
  • Field Execution Excellence
  • Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills
  • Team Coaching & People Development
  • Strong Planning & Prioritization
  • Relationship Building

The skills for success

Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing.

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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