Global Procurement Manager - Ocean & Air Freight

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.

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Procurement Manager to lead our global ocean & air freight procurement team. This role involves managing a team, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders, developing strong partnerships with key suppliers and driving initiatives to decarbonize our ocean and air freight operations. The Senior Procurement Manager will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end procurement process for global ocean freight, driving cost efficiencies, managing risk, and ensuring the business is well-positioned to respond to market fluctuations. Another aspect of this role will be leveraging market intelligence to stay ahead of developments in global freight and socialize it to the relevant stakeholders.

Location: 

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki - preferred, Amsterdam - possibility

Your responsibilities

- Leadership & Team Management: Lead and develop a high-performing procurement team, providing guidance and support. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and high standards of performance.  
- Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with the suppliers which are part of the SRM programme and with the key ocean and air freight suppliers, managing performance, and ensuring high levels of service and cost-effectiveness.  
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with internal stakeholders across Supply Services and Factories to understand needs, align procurement strategies, and ensure the timely and cost-effective delivery of goods.  
- Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with global ocean freight, including supply disruptions, capacity constraints, and price volatility. Develop and implement strategies to manage and minimize these risks.  
- Market Intelligence: Stay closely connected to ocean freight market developments, leveraging data, trends, and industry insights to inform procurement decisions and ensure the organization is positioned to respond to changes in the global freight market. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.  
- Contract Negotiation & Management: Lead complex contract negotiations with freight providers, ensuring favourable terms, service levels, and cost controls. Monitor contract compliance and manage supplier performance against agreed KPIs.  
- Financials: Be accountable for the financial performance of the category including NWC, and for Financial Planning & Forecasting. Drive cost-saving initiatives and process efficiencies.  
- Continuous Improvement and Reporting: Continuously evaluate and improve procurement processes and systems, ensuring best practices are followed and innovations are adopted.  Provide regular updates to senior leadership on procurement metrics, risk management, and market developments.  
- Sustainability: Develop and ensure deployment of sustainable logistics policies and procedures, focusing on carbon footprint reduction and sustainable transportation practices.

The experience we're looking for

-    Bachelor/master’s degree in business, science/engineering, supply chain or equivalent.
-    8 to 12 years of experience in Procurement. Experience in managing senior stakeholders and leading a small team is advantageous. Additionally, experience in Logistics is a must.
-    Leadership: Inspiring and motivating the team.
-    Communication: Clearly conveying goals and feedback.
-    Empathy: Understanding and addressing team needs and concerns.
-    Delegation: Assigning tasks effectively to leverage team strengths.
-    Adaptability: Being flexible and responsive.
-    Accountability: Taking responsibility for outcomes.
-    Excellent oral and written English communication & influencing skills, second language is a plus

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Data Analytics, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management,  Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Supply Management, Procurement.

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.