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Trading Lead

City: Massy

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.

Marketing Excellence

The Digital Trading Lead plays a pivotal role in overseeing our digital media trading operations across campaign activation planning & buying in-platform. As the senior lead in-market, you will be responsible for ensuring that all campaigns activated in-platform follow Reckitt’s media governance processes & agreed ways of working.

Acting as the in-market point of escalation for the Eastern Europe Consumer Engagement team – the Digital Trading Lead helps to facilitate the resolution of performance concerns, handling queries, improving team processes & managing expectations in-market to ensure key deliverables are met. You will be responsible for managing the overall workload of the team, helping to assign campaigns to digital traders & identifying where additional resources will be needed to support.

About the role

The Applied Media Science (AMS) team works closely with both external partners & internal teams to ensure Reckitt’s campaigns are activated with excellence in-platform. Reporting directly to the Head of Digital Trading – you will be responsible for managing a team of Digital Media Managers, helping to streamline key processes across activation planning, whilst facilitating the sharing & embedding of platform best practices across our operations.

Your responsibilities

Oversee the planning & execution of digital media buying across the Brand Pods
Be the in-market escalation point for Consumer Engagement team – assisting in managing expectations & enforcing the agreed scope/deliverables of the team
Operationalize & scale channel best practices developed by the Digital Media Managers
Promote a unified approach to campaign planning, activation & optimization
Ensure all media trading activities comply with industry regulations & ethical standards
Manage the team quarterly finance cross-charges and handle ongoing invoice queries
Promote key campaign learnings, presenting media case studies to the wider team
Deploy key Reckitt tools & Global DDM Programs across the AMS campaign workflow
Assign campaigns to the Digital Associates to activate in-platform, helping to coordinate & distribute workload across the team
Foster a collaborative environment, encouraging innovation & continuous improvement
Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback
Support the Head of Trading in the standup and ongoing improvement of the model.

The experience we're looking for

Educational & Professional Background: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field with 6+ years in digital media buying/planning, including 2+ years in leadership roles.
Digital Media Expertise: Deep understanding of the digital media ecosystem, biddable platforms, and proficiency in tools like Excel and PowerPoint.
Leadership & Team Management: Proven ability to lead teams, drive accountability, foster collaboration, and deliver business results while managing-up and setting clear expectations.
Strategic Process Improvement: Experience in developing, implementing, and scaling process improvements across media workflows to enhance efficiency and performance.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Skilled in presenting to senior stakeholders with outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities; fluent in French and English required.
Problem-Solving & Adaptability: Highly organized, resourceful, and solutions-oriented with a strong ability to prioritize, navigate ambiguity, and maintain focus on key deliverables.

The skills for success

Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Marketing optimization, Commercial accumen, Collaboration, Brand Management, Data Driven Marketing and Media Manager.

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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