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.
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.
This exciting opportunity will assist you in gaining hands-on experience coordinatin New Product Development (NPD), Existing Product Development (EPD), and Value-Added Product (VAP) projects from concept through to launch. You'll work collaboratively, contributing to exciting business initiatives, and help delivering products that make a real impact while building and enhancing valuable project management and commercial skills.
The role is Fixed Term for 24months / 2 years.
Documentation & Governance:
- Maintaining up-to-date templates, meeting minutes, reports, and ensuring document revision control.
- Update and management of all the project databases, SharePoint and folders local and regional
Tracking & Reporting:
- Consolidating project data, information and compiling summary reports for stakeholders and leadership.
Administration:
- Schedule key project meetings and prepare presentation decks.
- Provide inputs from broader business meetings.
New Product Development and Existing Product Development Project Execution Management
The incumbent support or lead assigned initiatives in the innovation pipeline
- Co-ordinate the implementation of NPDs/EPDs from project initiation to launch
- Consolidation of the project scope and create timelines
- Follow-up on all activities and tasks, check outputs and ensure deadlines are met
- Facilitate phase in plans and production through liaison with planning and factory to ensure minimal write-off during changes
- Generate cost statements for further financial analysis by acquiring costings from suppliers, procurement and financial data
Gross Margin Expansion
- Participate in cost savings initiatives with cross functional teams
- Identifies opportunities of simplification and rationalization opportunities across brands
- Reviews current practices and processes effectiveness and recommends improvements
Project co-ordination of identified opportunities.
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The incumbent will perform additional responsibilities collaborating initiatives as assigned by the manager, ensuring alignment with GM improvement priorities, supply excellence goals, and overall business performance targets.
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Project Management / Supply Chain Management / Sciences / Engineering / Marketing or Finance preferred
- Minimum of 1 years’ experience working in FMCG industry would be advantageous.
Innovation, Project management, New Product Development, Packaging Development, Supply Chain Management, Productivity, Continuous Improvement, Business Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Business acumen, Data Analytics, Critical Thinking, Communication, Time Management
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.
