Plant Procurement Manager

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.

About The Role
The Procurement Manager ensures the production in the manufacturing units is supported with availability of Non-Production Spends materials and services for supply only.

The role holder interacts closely with the Manufacturing teams within the function. Works with the Finance function for costing purposes. Externally the role holder interacts with the Vendors

Your responsibilities

Commodity Management

• Knowledge of Commodities and Feedstock.
• Responsible for development, leading and executing procurement strategies and negotiation of contracts to maximize the benefit to organization.
• Perform cost benefit analysis and benchmarking of the market and competition to find cost saving opportunities.

Vendor Management

• Ensure close monitoring of vendor performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Take the lead in identifying new, more reliable and / or lower cost sources of supply.
• Assist product development teams to identify product innovation possibilities and

Ensuring Service

• Responsible for coordinating with vendors and factory team to facilitate cross functional projects.
• Close working with the suppliers and improving supplier performance.
• Assist finance team in working capital management by negotiating payment terms with vendors.

Systems & Process

• Comply with laid down systems and processes of RB and Procurement function and set-up new systems & fine tune existing one to meet requirements of the business.
• Function as a team player to implement end-to-end solutions across the supply chain, including interactions with the manufacturing, logistics, R&D and vendors & other external agencies.
• Generation of appropriate MIS and analytics on a regular basis to support performance management systems.
• Responsible for identifying and driving projects on lead time reductions, process improvement and quality compliance.

The experience we're looking for

Personal Attributes:

• Achievement focused and able to work in a direct and often pressurized environment.
• Entrepreneurial skills in terms of innovation and problem solving
• Positive attitude, Proactive, Perseverance, tough-mindedness and ability to influence
• Demonstrates strong team working abilities and commitment
• Commercial awareness – Understands the impact of Supply decisions on business profitability
• Commitment and Strong track record of delivery
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to challenge status quo.

Environment Standard Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand all Env & Safety standards requirement of Reckitt & Participate in relevant trainings to achieve working knowledge w.r.t Env & Safety standards.
• Include requirement of Env & Safety standards while developing or reviewing respective area operational SOPs.
• Identify and Understand Environmental Risks related to the profile of job role.
• Awareness of the environment's legal norms for the job role assigned.
• Report, investigate environment & Safety Incidents to identify CAPA.

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, Category Management Expertise.

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.