Category Lead Pest, Essential Home

About the role:

In this role, you will drive strategic sourcing assessments, ensuring the assigned category is resilient, efficient, and aligned with our business continuity plans. You will play a pivotal role in shaping product sourcing decisions, optimizing manufacturing footprints, and supporting innovation strategies. This is an exciting opportunity to work cross-functionally, lead complex projects, and drive the evolution of our supply chain processes.

ESSENTIAL HOME

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make A House A Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortine, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Your responsibilities:

• Coordinating global projects from Supply Manufacturing side in cooperation with local NPI Leaders.
• Being point of contact for different functions responsible on global level into brand management including Supply Manufacturing & Services, Category Marketing and R&D, Packaging Development, Procurement, and others.
• Guiding marketing colleagues in best practices for fast and cost-efficient manufacturing implementation of NPDs/EPDs.
• Understanding & regularly monitoring the global capacity vs demand for relevant global brands to ensure the triggering of capacity investment discussions and underutilization discussions in a timely manner.
• Proactively contribute into brand strategic discussions as a supply excellence professional.
• Maximizing Gross Margin through:
  • constant drive of FUEL/productivity biggest ideas, checking on their financial impact and feasibility as well as supporting their fast implementation
  • leading sourcing study exercises to optimise the supply network and helping to keep brands competitive in the market
  • reducing brand complexity level and leading project of brand harmonization through different markets/area/factories/segments and regions.

The experience we are looking for:

• Master’s degree / bachelor’s degree (Economic, Business Administration, Chemical specialization).
• 3-5 years’ experience on similar position, leading global NPD/EPD projects.
• Fluent English.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical elements into business language.
• Result-oriented, self-motivating and innovative.
• Openness to change and ability to think out of the box.

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 recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognize 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; color, 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.