Purchasing Manager (Parsippany, NJ, US, 07054)

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

As part of the Global Packaging Team, this role is responsible for the procurement strategy of Laminates, sleeves and labels in North America.

This position oversees a total spend of $ 56 M and has one direct report. The main responsibilities are the development and execution of category, sourcing and supplier management strategies to achieve competitive advantage through lowest purchase cost and value improvements.

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

Your responsibilities

• Develop and execute the optimal strategy that delivers business objectives.
• Deliver results in key performance areas: cost management, financial forecast, NWC, service and quality, process improvements and innovation.
• Have full financial accountability for the category: Plan, Forecast, PPV, NWC, prices compliance.
• Support innovation implementations in the category while securing a resilient supply chain.
• Manage and develop strategic supplier relationships.
• Develop Commodity Risk Management strategy aligned with key stakeholders.
• Develop and implement sustainability strategy in collaboration with Sustainability group.
• Lead and develop direct reports and be an active player within the global team.
• Lead the global strategy for Sleeves in alignment with other factories.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor/master’s degree in business, science/engineering, supply chain or equivalent.
• 7+ years of Procurement or Supply experience, preferably in FMCG.
• Proven track record in handling complex portfolios.
• Ability to travel within Europe.
• Fluent oral and written English.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access).
• Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

The skills for success

Cross-Supply competencies   

Supply Chain acumen 

• Understand how our business operates and manage the E2E supply chain.             

Building relationships 

• Integrate business interests and stakeholder perspectives creating competitive advantage with a clear and Influential communication style.              

Financial acumen         

• Apply knowledge of key financial concepts to support decision making, analyse financial dashboard, manage risks, and uncover opportunities.             

Analytical skills             

• Source, interpret and analyse data to build accurate reports, ensure robust decision-making process.   

Procurement Competencies

Third-party negotiation

• Designs the most appropriate end-to-end sourcing process and negotiation strategy to achieve clear objectives.
• Builds a deep understanding of the counterpart and the market to define key negotiation targets and parameters
• Identifies, prepares and briefs upstream the key stakeholders required for the negotiation to succeed.
• Anticipates potential deadlock and adapts the negotiation style to in-flight changes of circumstances.             

Supplier management

• Segments the supplier base, creates and evolves the vendor management approach and strategy accordingly.
• Creates, nurtures and continuously improves healthy and appropriate relationships with the supplier base.
• Drives technological and/or digital innovation agenda in cooperation with suppliers.
• Measure and improve supplier capabilities to ensure an efficient flow, quality and sustainability of product to meet service requirements.             

Category management              

• Use relevant insights to turn opportunities into concrete short, medium and long term action plans.
• Formulates actionable and ambitious strategies based on deep business acumen with an E2E approach.
• Create, implement, and manage category plans based on business needs and supply market capabilities             

Legal acumen  

• Highly qualified to handle extensive contracts with a large spend at stake and multiple supply and quality clauses.

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.