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GBM VMS/OTC

City: Shanghai

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 Excellence

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

Build sustainable category development – strategy & pipeline - rooted in consumer insights
Closely work with local JV partner to understand business requirement, facilitate efficient local innovation process to drive agility and speed-to-market opportunities.
Resilient, can-do attitude, passion for win and people skill in matrix org are critical in soft capability.

Your responsibilities

Innovation & Category Growth management
- Develop a robust category growth strategy with consumer 1st approach for Reckitt VMS .
- Lead & Own design-for-China VMS pipeline leveraging support from cross function teams both in local & global to deliver initiatives on time and on quality with the objective to 5X business in next 5years
- Support Global innovation development by providing guidance on local consumer and market insights.
- Competitive and market data analysis to support growth strategy as well as daily operations .
Team management
- Multiple stakeholder management, global leaders, cross functional teams, JV partner, local cross functional teams, external partners.
- Understand global category & cross functional organization and local operation model, to facilitate effective & efficient project management with global and local cross functional teams.
- Successor and talent development.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree mandatory , major in Marketing, commercial, business management
4 years of brand management experience, including product innovation and brand building in consumer goods. Mastery of MNC Innovation development process is a must, including ideation, concept validation, product development, commercialization based on in-depth business understanding and consumer insight.
Category 0-1 innovation experience with OEM experience is highly preferred.
Project management skills involving high complexity, e.g., different location, global team, local team with different cross functions and various key stakeholders.
Highly self-motivated. A problem solver. Can-do attitude & strong resilience and high agility.
Hands on, attention to details with clear priority setting.
Excellent or native in both written & verbal Chinese and English is a must. Strong communication and people skills, with ability to influence and drive collaboration at a local China level and on a global level.
Strong business acumen and understands financial principles. Curiosity for new product/technology trend will help.

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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