Procurement Manager Global Professional Services

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational consumer goods company based in Slough is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead the global sourcing strategy and manage supplier relationships in professional services. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in strategic procurement, particularly within outsourcing deals, and demonstrate excellent negotiation skills. You will collaborate with senior leaders across various functions, ensuring procurement excellence on a global scale. The role offers competitive compensation and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategic procurement within professional services and/or global outsourcing deals.
• Strong understanding of commercial models and contract structures.
• Excellent knowledge of professional services markets, outsourcing models, and emerging trends.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement global category strategies for professional services.
• Lead all negotiations ensuring contracts deliver sustainable cost efficiencies.
• Own the commercial strategy and negotiations for global outsourcing deals.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Business Partnership

Collaboration and partnership building

Vendor Negotiation

Contract Negotiation

Data Analytics

Job description

Procurement Manager Global Professional Services

City: Slough

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

This role will lead and facilitate the global sourcing strategy, negotiation, and supplier relationship management for professional services categories (consulting, legal, HR, tax, audit, advisory, and business services) as well as complex outsourcing agreements. Operating at the heart of indirect procurement, the position is highly strategic and will embed procurement excellence across the Source-to-Contract process, ensuring value creation, contractual protection, and service excellence on a global scale.

You will work closely with senior leaders across Corporate Functions: Finance, IT&D, HR, Supply as well as with Reckitt Strategic external partners, positioning Procurement as a trusted advisor in shaping business transformation and outsourcing strategy.

Your responsibilities

• Global Category Strategy & Governance: Define and implement global category strategies for professional services and outsourcing. Align across geographies, business functions, and senior stakeholders, balancing standardization with flexibility.
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) & Value Realization: Lead all negotiations and strategies with a TCO lens, ensuring contracts deliver sustainable cost efficiencies, quality of service, and innovation beyond initial savings. Strong understanding of different commercial models and ensure outcomes are measured and delivered advising the business on the right framework and governance model. As a strategic advisory robost commercial structures should be easily understood with value delivery looking at contracting entities, tax implications, fx strategies and other key levers based on Deal.
• Outsourcing Deal Leadership: Own the commercial strategy, negotiations, and contracting for global outsourcing deals (e.g., IT, BPO, shared services). Structure agreements to maximize value, flexibility, and risk management and ensure execution vs contractual commitments.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Drive the Joint Business planning process in collaboration with the business. Defining and driving JBP strategies with top consulting firms, legal providers, and outsourcing partners. Create transparency, deliver innovation pipelines, and hold suppliers accountable for performance.
• Contracting & Risk Management: Lead high-value negotiations with legal, financial, and operational complexity. Partner closely with Legal and Finance to ensure contracts are robust, commercially competitive, and aligned to strategic objectives with the right governance models in place
• Cross-Functional Alignment & Influence: Actively partner with senior business leaders to challenge demand, shape outsourcing strategies, and ensure procurement is embedded at the earliest stages of decision-making
• Value Beyond Savings: Drive initiatives such as supplier innovation, simplification of supplier base, and professional services optimization. Focus on measurable business outcomes, not just cost savings. Deliver internal Bootcamps on Procurement ways of working
• Technology-Enabled Procurement: Leverage digital procurement tools (SmartBuy, eSourcing contract management platforms, Spend Cube, NWC traker and analytics,) to enable value deliver, visibility, compliance, and speed in sourcing decisions.
• Spend Control Tower Process Leadership (SCT): Active member of the SCT process to review and manage demand, ensuring right sourcing process, risk mitigation, and compliance. Establish templates, playbooks, and frameworks to enable efficient, high-quality contracting.

The experience we're looking for

• Proven experience in strategic procurement within professional services and/or global outsourcing deals.
• Comfortable leading large, complex negotiations with global consulting firms, outsourcing partners, and law firms.
• Strong understanding commercial models, contract structures, and risk mitigation in professional services and outsourcing agreements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior leadership across multiple functions.
• Experience is successful partnering with large external suppliers to deliver outcomes
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to communicate, build rapport, and influence at all levels.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and adapting negotiation styles to achieve outcomes.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on deal execution.
• Experience working in a multinational environment with cross-border stakeholder management.
• Creative problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Excellent knowledge of professional services markets, outsourcing models, and emerging trends.

The skills for success

• Supply Chain Management
• Business Partnership
• Collaboration and partnership building
• Relationship Management
• Business acumen
• Productivity management
• Improve business processes
• Advanced Analytics
• Data Analytics
• Vendor Negotiation
• Contract Negotiation
• Category Management Expertise
• Supply Management
• 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.