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Procurement Manager - Ocean Freight DVM

City: Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

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

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Procurement Manager to lead sourcing activities for significant scope within the Ocean & Air Freight category. This role involves managing a small team, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders, developing strong partnerships with key suppliers and driving initiatives to decarbonize our ocean freight operations. The Procurement Manager will be responsible for defining and leading the execution of category strategy oriented to deliver business objectives, driving cost efficiencies, managing risk, and ensuring the business is well-positioned to respond to market fluctuations.

Your responsibilities

Category & Portfolio Management: Define and lead the implementation of the optimal strategy to deliver business objectives. Manage and continuously improve the procurement process for the category.
Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, managing performance, and ensuring high levels of service and cost-effectiveness. Explore the market to on-board new providers.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close co-operation with internal stakeholders across Supply Services, Factories, Finance, Quality, Legal to understand needs, assess those needs driving efficiency and cost effectiveness without compromising quality, align procurement activities and decisions, ensure support to effective delivery of service.
Market Intelligence: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices. Monitor closely market development, leveraging data, trends, and industry insights to informed procurement decisions. Be recognized as a subject matter expert in the Ocean & Air Freight category, share knowledge, know-how, and expertise with peers, colleagues and stakeholders.
Contract Negotiation & Management: Prepare and lead contract and business negotiation with freight providers, ensuring favourable terms, service levels, and cost controls. Monitor contract compliance and manage supplier performance against agreed KPIs.
Risk Management: Proactively identify and assess vulnerability to key business risks and mitigate risk by building robust contingency plans. Mitigate risks associated with global ocean freight, including supply disruptions, capacity constraints, and price volatility.
Financials: Be accountable for the financial performance, execution and accuracy of Financial Planning & Forecasting. Drive cost-saving initiatives and process efficiencies including NWC improvements.
Continuous Improvement, Reporting and Digitalization: Continuously evaluate and improve procurement processes and systems, ensuring best practices are followed and innovations are adopted. Support development of internal systems driving efficiency and leveraging robust data to informed procurement and supply chain management decisions.
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.
5 to 8 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.
Very good English communication skills oral and written, second language is a plus

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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