Sr Procurement Manager - Global Procurement

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

As Senior Procurement Manager – Global Capex (North America), you will own and execute the sourcing strategy for Capital Expenditures (Capex) across Reckitt’s North American manufacturing and supply footprint for Core Reckitt (Health and Hygiene excluding Wilson)—covering production lines, automation, utilities, engineering services, and site investments.

You will partner closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply, Finance, and Global Category Teams to ensure that Reckitt maximizes value, mitigates risk, and delivers operational excellence across major capital projects. This is a highly cross-functional, strategic role with both global and regional visibility.

 

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

Your responsibilities

Category Strategy & Governance

• Lead the development and execution of the North America Capex procurement strategy aligned with Reckitt’s global framework.
• Maintain and continuously improve category governance, benchmarking, risk management, and supplier performance models.
• Utilize market intelligence to inform decision-making on technology, suppliers, and cost structures.

 

Project Sourcing & Execution

• Own end-to-end sourcing for major Capex projects, including RFx, commercial evaluation, contract negotiations, and award decisions.
• Ensure alignment with engineering and project management teams to drive on-time and on-budget project delivery.

 

Supplier Management

• Develop strong, strategic relationships with equipment providers, in alignment with the global strategy and Global Engineering.
• Monitor supplier performance and ensure adherence to Reckitt’s safety, quality, and compliance standards.
• Lead supplier consolidation, strategic partnerships, and long-term agreements where appropriate.

 

Value Creation & Cost Optimization

• Deliver annual productivity targets while enabling technical innovation and operational efficiency.
• Drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) optimization across equipment, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle support.
• Identify opportunities for design-to-value, standardization, and modularization.

 

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary procurement business partner to regional Engineering, Supply, Manufacturing, and Finance leaders.
• Represent the region in global category strategy discussions and support global negotiations.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, contracting standards, and sustainability commitments.

 

Contracting & Risk Management

• Lead negotiation of commercial terms, service-level agreements, warranties, and performance guarantees.
• Mitigate risks related to supply continuity, safety, regulatory compliance, and financial exposure.
• Partner with Legal to manage complex contract structures such as Joint Development Agreements and Framework Agreements where relevant.

 

The experience we're looking for

Technical & Functional

• 8 to 12 years’ experience in Procurement or Strategic Sourcing with strong Capex exposure, ideally in FMCG or pharma sector
• Experience in managing senior stakeholders is advantageous
• Strong commercial negotiation skills and knowledge of global supply markets.
• Proven track record managing sourcing for equipment, engineering services, or large-scale manufacturing projects.

 

Leadership & Interpersonal

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across senior engineering, manufacturing, and finance teams.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence at multiple levels in a matrixed global organization.
• Strong analytical mindset and comfort working with cost models and complex datasets.
• Results-driven, collaborative, resilient, and highly organized
• Adaptability: Being flexible and responsive
• Accountability: Taking responsibility for outcomes
• Excellent oral and written English communication & influencing skills, Spanish is a plus

 

Education

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in business, science/engineering, supply chain or equivalent.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Category Management Expertise, 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.

US salary ranges

USD $155,000.00 -  $233,000.00

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.