Senior Category Supply Manager - UR

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.

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.

• The Senior Category Supply Manager will run strategic base business sourcing assessments.
• They will ensure suitable and sufficient site Business Continuity Plans are in place for Category Power bands, minimising  and / or risk.
• They will make business recommendations of product sourcing changes from Factory A to Factory B, either Internally (Reckitt) or externally (EMO).
• The Senior Category Supply Manager will be key point of contact for the Commercial VP of the Category and together with relevant Category Supply Manager(s), they will define innovation sourcing strategies.
• They will support the co-ordination of long-term volume data to ensure robust Category RCCPs to feed and justify annual Strat Plan submission, which creates the blueprint for our longer term supply strategy.
• They will provide data analytics to support Supply Leadership in the decision-making process.
• They work on sourcing projects until formally approved, at which point they are typically handed over to the receiving sites (either internal or external).
• They will support network decomplexity projects, working closely with R&D, Procurement, Technical and CGO to optimise our Category manufacturing footprint.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

• Leads base business sourcing assessments, co-ordinating activities cross-functionally to compare sourcing options, preliminary COGs, CAPEX and timelines.
• Ensure existing internal manufacturing capabilities are maximised, reducing EMO complexity.
• Ensure key stakeholders have clear visibility of sourcing projects and key Supply milestones are delivered on-time.
• Will establish, maintain and evolve sourcing study governance with cross-functional involvement.
• Supports supply inputs into key innovation documents:
  Innovation Intention to Explore (I2E), Innovation Development Brief (IDB), Innovation Commitment (IC) and Launch Recommendations (LR).
• Will support the maintenance of supply category trackers and other project reports and tools as assigned in line with Category Team Cadence.
• Co-ordinates long term volume data so that Category RCCPs can be updated accordingly and support the Strategic Plan for their relevant categories.
• Support sites with Category insights to enable site masterplan discussions dove tail with the longer-term Category Strat Plan.

• Degree in science or engineering with a manufacturing background.
• 5-10 years Pharmaceuticals and/or FMCG industry project management experience with a focus in manufacturing.
• The business language in Reckitt Benckiser is English; therefore, fluency in English is essential.
• Has experience leading large scale strategic projects.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to review data, present findings and make business decisions around that data.
• Must have proven track record in project management. Insuring…