Global Assistant Brand Manager VMS/OTC

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.

​Category Growth Organisation​

Category Growth Organization 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 Ramp;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 Category Growth Organization Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

The GABM will play a pivotal role in leading brand development for VMS portfolio in China. Based out of Shanghai, this role will play a key part in building long-term strategy for VMS, sustainable innovation pipeline and will involve working closely with our JV partner to drive execution of strategy and in market launch of innovations

Your responsibilities

• Identify new opportunities and rising trends to leverage and grow VMS in China
• Identify and develop innovation pipeline based on consumer/ shopper insights.
• Identify new product development opportunities for business and work with local brand team for implementation.

The experience we're looking for

• Primary qualification – Graduate ,desired degree in (Marketing or Business ) from a premier college/university
• 2+ years of marketing experience with exposure in Brand Marketing Management and innovation
• Prior experience includes working with cross-functional teams.
• Consumer focused with a strong awareness of the brand and target consumer.
• Creative, analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in unstructured environment
• Results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivated
• Fluency Mandarin mandatory – both spoken and written
• Good level of communication in English – both spoken & written

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.