Junior Buyer - EMO Middle East

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.

About the role

Do you thrive in dynamic environments and have an eye for the details? If yes, Reckitt invites you to step into the world of procurement as our new Buyer. Within this vital position, you'll harness your organisational skills to ensure our processes run smoothly and your actions will directly influence our operational excellence. This is an opportunity to contribute to a company that values integrity, inclusiveness, and dedication — unlocking a career that's not only professionally rewarding but also vital to our mission. This is a role managing a portfolio of External Manufacturing for Middle East to maximize cost and service benefit for the company by implementing agreed strategies. improvising on and using purchasing tools for effective and efficient operations.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you will: 

• Manage the sourcing of Contract manufacturing following broad policies and directions and factory specific SOPs.
• Have a direct impact in corporate measurements and results such as Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), Gross Margin (GM) and Net Working Capital (NWC).
• Manage activities to promote a healthy and low risk supplier base while ensuring compliance and business continuity for Reckitt
• Develop, and recommend the strategy, sourcing and contracting of local suppliers.
• Identify, select and develop supplier relationships, manage the negotiations within the assigned portfolio.
• Prepare the budget assumptions for the contract manufacturing spend and be accountable for managing delivery against those assumptions.
• Monitor and identify risks and opportunities in each sourcing process, drive mitigation and contingency plans to ensure continued supply of the materials/services
• Monitor market dynamics to exploit commercial advantages.
• Keep a sound relationship with suppliers at management levels so that Reckitt is seen as a preferred customer.
• Keep a sound relationship with regional and factory supply stakeholders in understanding needs and priorities to improve cost, service and new product developments.
• Design, verify and amend contracts in conjunction with the Legal department to protect intellectual property, minimize liabilities, exclusivity periods of innovation, material availability and cost improvements.
• Ensure governance which includes compliance to Global Operating Model, pricing and expense approvals, PPV reporting and analysis and full use of Ariba and Anaplan tools.

The experience we're looking for

• Prior experience within procurement, purchasing, or a related administrative field; familiarity with the health and hygiene industry is a plus.
• Exceptional organisational capabilities and the ability to multitask without compromising on quality.
• Adeptness with the Microsoft Office Suite and experience using procurement-related software or systems.
• Communicative confidence to interact with a variety of stakeholders and build productive relationships.
• A solid grasp of procurement fundamentals, the capacity to handle negotiations, and an understanding of supply chain dynamics.
• Financial and commercial acumen when identifying business issues/opportunities\
• Action-oriented and energetic with a focused and pragmatic approach to problem-solving driven to achieve even when faced with obstacles.
• Ambitious and motivated to take on responsibility in an organization that provides high level of autonomy.

The skills for success

Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Improve business processes, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Planning, Procurement.

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.