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Customer Supply Chain Director

City: Nutley

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

The Customer Supply Chain Director leads the end-to-end customer-facing supply chain organization and serves as a strategic partner to Commercial, Supply Chain, and key customers. This role is accountable for customer service performance, replenishment, inventory optimization, and customer collaboration to deliver exceptional service while balancing cost, growth, and operational efficiency.

This role is a key business leadership position that bridges customer and business priorities with supply chain strategy and capability development. By championing continuous improvement and transformation, the role strengthens organizational effectiveness and delivers a competitive advantage through customer-centric service excellence.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time!

Your responsibilities

Serve as the strategic supply chain leader for key customers, building executive relationships, leading joint planning, and aligning customer needs with commercial and operational priorities.
Own end-to-end customer supply chain performance, driving improvements in OTIF, fill rates, inventory health, customer satisfaction, and overall business results while reducing service failures and value leakage.
Partner across Sales, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Logistics, and Finance to align customer requirements with enterprise capabilities and influence planning and supply chain decisions.
Lead the evolution of the customer supply chain operating model through process simplification, standardization, automation, and transformational initiatives that improve agility and effectiveness.
Leverage analytics, dashboards, and digital tools to improve visibility, enable data-driven decision making, identify risks and opportunities, and enhance operational performance.
Develop and lead a high-performing customer supply chain organization by fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, talent development, and effective change leadership.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
15+ years of progressive supply chain, customer operations, logistics, or customer service experience.
10+ years of leadership experience managing and developing teams.
Experience in CPG, OTC, Consumer Products, or Retail environments.
Strong understanding of customer replenishment, order-to-cash, forecasting, inventory management, and S&OP/IBP processes.
Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred), retailer data platforms, and analytics tools such as Power BI.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.

The skills for success

Customer-Centric Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Supply Chain Expertise
Financial & Business Acumen
Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Change Leadership
Executive Communication & Influence
Team Development
Continuous Improvement Mindset

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.

US salary ranges

USD $186,000.00 - $278,000.00

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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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