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City: Slough

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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.

Looking for a role that shapes the backbone of business operations? Reckitt is seeking an astute Buyer – NPS to strategically manoeuvre through the procurement landscape, ensuring our teams have everything they need to excel. You will fine-tune procurement activities across vital categories, guaranteeing efficient, cost-effective supply chains that drive Reckitt's continued success. Your expertise will not only cement smooth operations but also flourish long-standing supplier collaborations. So, if you take pride in precision and seek to make a tangible impact, Reckitt is your next chapter.

Individuals in this position will be responsible for the following:

1. Commercial IT&D due diligence:
• An understanding of application development solutions as far as key drivers for costs are known and how to control these in line with agile, waterfall or hybrid methodologies.
• Ability to conduct market research and or influence others to ensure that an auditable and logical approach has been taken to identify appropriate sourcing options for IT&D solutions.
• Familiar with the risks associated with IT&D sourcing and how to identify and mitigate these using commercial levers during a procurement process

2. Technology procurement strategy:
• Apply the Global IT&D procurement strategy that is aligned with the overall corporate IT&D and business strategy priorities and translate due diligence into a negotiation strategy.
• Drive collection of any missing details needed to ensure that the negotiation strategy addresses all critical gaps with planned outcomes that have been pre-agreed by IT&D and business stakeholders.
• Ensure that future demand and flexibility is secured with any new contracting model proposed in line with IT&D and business stakeholder requirements.
• Being able to prioritize delivery of outcomes against an agreed risk assessment for contracts against a set timeframe.
• Develop a thorough understanding of license models to be able to lead the evaluation of optimal sourcing and pricing options to consider with typical IS solution vendors including cloud, on premise and hybrid solutions.
• Ability to build informal networks and informal feedback loops for more-effective communication
• Use of E-procurement, contract management and supplier performance tools.

4. Supplier relationship management program:
• To collaborate with the Third-Party contract management team to ensure renewal process and asset tracking requirements are taken into consideration.

How Will Success Be Evaluated?
• Successful engagement, alignment and contribution to IT&D and business stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration as required to optimize all available resources to deliver against the target dates.
• Driving commercial strategies that have a clear cost reduction on budget with managed risk to cost increase in the future meeting current and future business objectives.

• A bachelor's degree in business or other management discipline, such as law or business studies.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering or IT&D, and certification by purchasing and supply chain professional bodies, such as the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) or the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS).

Experience
• Two or more years in a procurement role is expected, with some experience in Technology Procurement or category manager preferable
• Other functional experience, particularly in IT&D, is beneficial
• A demonstrated ability to achieve results.
• Someone who has a keen interest in IT&D and has developed an effective Technology Procurement strategy for two or more IT&D projects.
• Legal experience, with some experience in Technology contracts, is preferable.
• Thorough understanding of a robust procurement process and an ability and confidence to guide others in fulfilling this.

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.

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.

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.