Senior Buyer - External Manufacturing

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.

​Procurement​

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

You will be delivering and sustaining the global External Manufacturing Organisation (EMO) excellence by building the database, conducting the global EMO segmentation, creating the insightful KPI dashboard and driving the governance on the operating model across the organizations. You will also be liaising and managing relationships with vendors and external suppliers. There will be UK and Europe travel to meet with vendors and suppliers.

Your responsibilities

• Creating the global EMO database (e.g. RMPM) with close collaboration with the Operational Procurement EMO team
• Analyzing the global EMO data and identifying the opportunity to optimize the networks across the supply chain.
• Managing the global EMO, including contract negotiation in conjunction with legal team
• Conducting benchmark studies for global EMO with external leading suppliers as well as Reckitt’s factories
• Standardizing, implementing, and tracking the KPIs (compliance, service, cost, quality etc.) across the global EMOs.
• Collaborating with the operational Procurement EMO team and Reckitt global stakeholders to manage and mitigate the risks.
• Applying the global RMPM strategy (and other best practice inhouse) to the global EMOs
• Supporting NPD launches, reviewing and improving the NPD processes for global EMOs by applying lessons learnt
• Standardizing the operating model by mapping and analyzing the existing processes and R&R and creating the governance structure
• Identifying the opportunity to integrate with the key EMOs to leverage the E2E planning capability.

The experience we're looking for

- A proven track record in procurement roles, with a keen focus on planning or factories is a plus.
- Excellence in negotiation, coupled with sharp analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- A proactive nature, adept at balancing multiple tasks with meticulous attention to detail.
- Effective communicator with solid interpersonal skills for both internal teams and external partners.
- Proficient with procurement systems and the MS Office Suite, enabling swift management of procurement activities.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, 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.

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.