Junior Buyer

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

Location - Hull, HU8 7DS

Our Junior Buyer supports and fine-tunes procurement activities across key categories enabling efficient cost-effective operations throughout manufacturing. They track and monitor the approval of all contracts, including high risk, and ensure that the Procurement team are always in an audit ready position. 

Our Junior Buyer plays an important role with regard to organising and presenting project delivery and maintains strong cross function relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. 

Your responsibilities

• Conduct procurement operations, from managing contracts across Capex and Opex projects and overseeing timely contract and project execution.
• Lead, manage, and present projects, contracts, and savings via several types of reporting applications.
• Build cross functional relationships and partnerships to enable identifcation of procurement projects. 
• Build relationships and partnerships with suppliers enabling open communication regarding performance and issues. 
• Engage with prospective suppliers, negotiate contracts, and ensure the best value in terms of pricing, quality, and payment terms.
• Utilise market insights to deliver cost savings. 

The experience we're looking for

• Proven background in procurement or a related field with a strong grasp of supply chain operations.
• Excellent understanding of project and procurement practices. 
• Aptitude for negotiations coupled with solid analytical and strategic project planning abilities.
• Meticulous and adept at juggling various tasks with a track record of efficiency.
• Effective communicator across all business levels.
• High proficiency in MS Suite of applications.
• Preferably proficient with Procurement software like Ariba and Anaplan.
• Fluent in English - other languages is desireable.
• Excellent communication skills.

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.