Trading Lead

Location: Via Milano

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 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
The Trading Lead plays a pivotal role in overseeing our digital media trading operations across campaign activation planning & buying in-platform. As the senior lead in-market, you will be responsible for ensuring that all campaigns activated in-platform follow Reckitt’s media governance processes & agreed ways of working.
Acting as the in-market point of escalation for Italy & Greece Consumer Engagement team – the Trading Lead helps to facilitate the resolution of performance concerns, handling queries, improving team processes & managing expectations in-market to ensure key deliverables are met. You will be responsible for managing the overall workload of the team, helping to assign campaigns to digital traders & identifying where additional resources will be needed to support.
Your responsibilities

Oversee the planning & execution of digital media buying across the Brand Pods
Be the in-market escalation point for Consumer Engagement team – assisting in managing expectations & enforcing the agreed scope/deliverables of the team
Operationalize & scale channel best practices developed by the Digital Media Managers
Promote a unified approach to campaign planning, activation & optimization
Ensure all media trading activities comply with industry regulations & ethical standards
Manage the team quarterly finance cross-charges and handle ongoing invoice queries
Promote key campaign learnings, presenting media case studies to the wider team
Deploy key Reckitt tools & Global DDM Programs across the AMS campaign workflow
Assign campaigns to the Digital Associates to activate in-platform, helping to coordinate & distribute workload across the team
Foster a collaborative environment, encouraging innovation & continuous improvement
Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback
Support the Head of Trading in the standup and ongoing improvement of the model.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, or a related field
Minimum of 6 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

Key

Skills:

Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Highly organized with the ability to prioritize tasks & team workload
Ability to problem solve & lead through times of ambiguity
Willingness to take ownership, drive accountability across the team
Fostering a collaborative environment for the team to contribute new ideas
Remaining hyper focused & guiding the team on meeting their key deliverables
Ability to manage-up, set realistic expectations &…