Sales Operations Project Manager

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About the role

The Sales Operations Project manager will manage the development and operations of special pack in-store merchandising designs from idea to execution.  Ensuring on-time delivery of projects while effectively managing financial P&L budgets will be critical in this role.  The right candidate will take an active role as Project Champion for all Trade Marketing Managed Display Projects to ensure projects are delivered on time, in budget, within scope and perform well in the post project analysis. The Sales Operations Project Manager will lead all in-store display merchandising and 3rd party embellishment creation across an assigned Reckitt sales initiative, working in close coordination with the Cross Functional Team including Brand Managers, Trade Marketing Managers, Portfolio & Product Managers, Category Supply Managers, Package Engineers and Finance.

Your responsibilities

• Maintain current brand Display List and Club offerings, ensuring items meet GS and GM hurdles
• Validate and challenge the initial display and club forecast with Sales and Trade Marketing and escalate high impact changes or forecasts that could result in major risk, as required
• Act as liaison with Sales, Trade, Demand Planning and Custom Manufacturing, while managing display and club forecast change requests and order-to-forecast controls and communications
• Execute proper item set up in all systems (MPL, FastSKU, Sales Intranet, SPT and all other down stream systems); and align on Advance Notice lead-time for each item
• Own display artwork process including supplier rendogram, planogram, headers, high resolution assets, and blueprints
• Ensure all milestones are met on display and club projects and manage the project within the MPL system through completion
• Generate Display Spec Sheets with product attributes for CAMs sell-in with customers
• Verify monthly Special Pack orders and initiate forecast rollover process with CAMs
• Work with Demand Planning and Custom Manufacturing on long lead item place holder volumes when required
• Recommend display and club discontinuations and initiate Step 1 discontinuation projects in MPL while managing obsolescence in collaboration with supply and trade partners
• Prepare and Align reports and analyses with Demand Planning on S&OP display forecast accuracy for monthly meeting
• Initiate and present post project analysis, comparing actuals to MPL targets
• Set up and maintain active user profiles for US Hygiene Sales Intranet or other admin related functions as required

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

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum 3-5 years work experience in Marketing, Sales, Finance, or Supply.  Ideally 18+ months of strong or better performance within Reckitt
• Proven strong leadership, self-motivated, and able to set direction for a project 
• Must demonstrate strong analytical and mathematical skills, ability to review data, draw conclusions and implement learnings
• Very strong oral, written communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to lead cross-functionally, working with a variety of personalities for solutions.  
• Strong organization and time management skills.  
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving ability
• General understanding of commercial functions (Marketing, Sales), project lifecycle, the retail environment, and Supply pipeline
• Computer proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); ability to become proficient in MPL, SPT, Sales Intranet, SAP

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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 recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

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Equality

We recognize 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; color, 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.