Procurement Manager - Marketing Agencies

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.

Supply 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.

This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

Reckitt is reimagining how creativity fuels growth - harnessing GenAI and modernising creative and localisation value chain. The position requires a highly motivated, well organised, flexible and pro-active Procurement Category Manager to:

• Play a pivotal role in shaping how Reckitt’s global ecosystem of agencies and studios delivery creative excellence ving the transformation of our creative operating model – embedding new tools, frameworks, and ways of working that strengthen collaboration, unlock efficiencies, and elevate creative impact worldwide.
• This is a highly visible role that demands strategic thinking, operational rigor, and an understanding of both how large matrixed organisations and their agency partners work. You will build and accelerate procurement strategies for the sub-category in scope through understanding of, and supporting internal stakeholders’ needs, professional sourcing approach, and building effective relationships and alignment with stakeholders.

• Manage, in autonomy, an identified sub-section of the Global Category, spread across 68 countries, including Corporate spending on the relevant categories, across a portfolio of approx. >40 suppliers.
• Drive global transformation initiatives across sub-sections of the Global Category (creative, localisation, technology partners) implementing Reckitt’s new ways of working and GenAI workbench.
• Shape and ope rationalise creative governance standards, performance frameworks, and KPIs that drive efficiency, quality and measurable return on creative investment. Drive commercial and creative performance,using data and insights to identify optimisation opportunities improve cost efficiency and elevate creative output.
• Directly lead & manage supplier consolidation and negotiation strategies focusing on transformations objectives and driving total value to Reckitt.
• Collaborate with the Indirect Procurement group in markets, to effectively deliver on specific projects (supplier and solution changes, identify and leveraging best practice
• Drive change management in line with business goals.
• Track, report, and communicate transformation progress, surfacing insights that shape continuous improvement and future investment decisions.

• Minimum bachelor’s degree, preferably in Procurement or Marketing. A degree in Finance, Business, or another relevant discipline will also be considered.
• Minimum 7 years’ work experience in indirect procurement (preferably marketing procurement), marketing operations, or agency management within global organisations or creative agency environments.
• Experienced with leading cross-functional sourcing projects.
• Ability to work in a truly global organisation. Proven experience in working in a fast moving and result driven environment which demands to work under pressure.
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