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Trading Lead

City: Parsippany

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.

Marketing

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

Dive into the heart of innovative marketing at Reckitt as our Trading Lead. The Trading Lead is instrumental in driving Reckitt Essential Home’s digital media trading operations, with a strategic focus on campaign activation planning and in-platform buying. As the senior lead in-market, you will ensure that all digital campaigns adhere to all media governance processes, established best practices, and inline with the brands marketing goals. Your role involves acting as the primary point of escalation for the US Consumer Engagement team, facilitating the resolution of performance issues, addressing finance queries, and enhancing team processes to meet key deliverables.

You will strategically manage the team’s workload, assigning campaigns to digital traders and identifying resource needs to support optimal performance. By leveraging your expertise, you will improve operational efficiency and ensure that digital media activations are executed with BIC strategic planning, precision and excellence. Your leadership will be crucial in maintaining high standards and driving continuous improvement in Reckitt’s digital media strategy.

Your responsibilities

- Oversee the planning & execution of digital media buying
- Be in-market escalation point for Consumer Engagement team
- Working with digital media managers, operationalize and scale channel best practices ( Social, Youtube, Programmatic and Retail Media) by leading the adoption of platform capabilities, planning principles, bidding strategies & effective campaign setups
- Support global trading head in adoption of the current/future processes of digital trading unit, recommending process improvements & automation opportunities
- Deploy and drive of ad tech tools
- Work with the media ecosystem and partners (Meta, Google , Tiktok, Amazon)
- Support global annual brand planning proving clear inputs on audiences, phasing, KPIs and placement strategy
- Develop and adopt global activation frameworks, digital media GSMs, media productivity levers
- Ensure all media trading activities comply with industry regulations & ethical standards
- Manage the team quarterly finance cross-charges and handle ongoing invoice queries

The experience we're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in digital media buying/planning, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Strong understanding of the digital media ecosystem & operating biddable platforms
- Experience working & presenting to senior stakeholders
- Proven track record of managing teams & delivering business results
- Having worked on key projects/tasks that involved developing, implementing & scaling process improvements across media workflows

The skills for success

Consumer Insights, Analytical skills, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Marketing optimization, Commercial accumen, Collaboration, Brand Management.

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 $141,000.00 - $211,000.00

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.

Nearest Major Market: New York City
Nearest Secondary Market: Newark
Job Segment: Nutrition, Counseling, Healthcare