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Assistant Trade Budget Manager

City: Karachi

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 Trade Budget Manager is responsible for planning, governing, tracking, and optimizing Trade Investment (TI) across channels, customers, and brands to maximize return on investment while ensuring financial discipline and compliance.

The role serves as the custodian of trade investment governance, working closely with Sales, Trade Marketing, Commercial Finance, and other cross-functional teams to ensure effective allocation of resources, forecasting accuracy, spend visibility, and delivery of commercial objectives.

In addition, the role drives continuous improvement and automation of trade investment processes, enhancing efficiency, transparency, controls, and scalability across trade spend management and disbursement workflows.

Your responsibilities

Planning & Governance

Lead the annual Trade Investment planning process in collaboration with Trade Marketing, Sales, and Commercial Finance teams.
Monitor budget utilization across channels, customers, and brands.
Ensure investments are aligned with approved business plans, growth priorities, and governance principles.
Provide ongoing visibility of committed, accrued, and actual spend.
Identify risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions to optimize investment allocation.

Budget Control & Financial Stewardship

Track trade spend performance against approved budgets and forecasts.
Conduct monthly variance analysis, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
Ensure timely accrual creation, tracking, and reconciliation in partnership with Commercial Finance.
Monitor customer-level trade investment performance and profitability implications.
Ensure timely validation and governance of customer and distributor trade claims in accordance with approved investment plans and company policies.
Support internal and external audit requirements related to trade investments.

Trade Spend Effectiveness & ROI Management

Evaluate and validate trade promotion investment proposals through robust financial analysis and business case assessment.
Develop and implement frameworks for measuring promotional effectiveness and return on investment.
Conduct post-promotion evaluations and recommend future investment actions.
Analyze customer, channel, and brand-level trade investment performance.
Identify opportunities to improve trade spend productivity and resource allocation.
Generate actionable insights to improve commercial decision-making.

Commercial Business Partnering

Partner closely with Sales, Trade Marketing, and Finance teams to optimize trade investment decisions.
Challenge investment assumptions and spending requests where expected returns are not commercially justified.
Support customer planning and business reviews through fact-based financial and performance insights.
Provide recommendations on investment prioritization, budget deployment, and spend optimization.

Reporting & Analytics

Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to monitor trade investment performance.
Generate regular customer, channel, and brand-level reports covering budget utilization, ROI, forecast accuracy, and spend effectiveness.
Track investment productivity, budget adherence, and key financial KPIs.
Present findings, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Process Excellence, Automation & Controls

Lead continuous improvement initiatives to simplify and standardize Trade Investment planning, approval, claims, settlement, and reporting processes.
Identify opportunities to automate trade spend management, reporting, and disbursement workflows to improve efficiency, visibility, and control.
Partner with Sales Operations, Commercial Finance, IT, and shared services teams to implement digital solutions and process enhancements.
Drive adoption of automation tools, dashboards, and system-based controls to reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy.
Improve end-to-end trade claim processing and settlement efficiency while ensuring compliance with company policies and governance requirements.
Champion data integrity, process discipline, and controls across all trade investment management systems.

The experience we're looking for

Educated to a Bachelors degree or Masters (preferably) level, from a recognised institute
At least 2 years of experience in Trade Marketing/Budgeting role in an FMCG industry
Excellent communication skills and strong data analysis capabilities

The skills for success

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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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