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Procurement Manager - Warehousing

Posted 2 Jul 2025
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10 to 20 years
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Full-time
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English (Fluent)

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Join Reckitt: Make a Difference in Hygiene, Health, and Nutrition

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.

Procurement at Reckitt

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

The role of Procurement Manager Warehousing and Embellishment EUANZ will have interfaces at the most senior level of our supplier base to provide RB with a competitive advantage regionally and sometimes globally. The job holder will also interface with our Senior Management in Supply and will work closely with the Supply Services organization.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

  • Manage approx. 20 Warehouses in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Implement and recommend or decide (depending on spend) the strategy, sourcing and contracting of the commodity in order to achieve adequate supplier base that will generate competitive advantage for the operations across Europe.
  • Closely follow commodity cost drivers and develop an in-depth understanding of market dynamics to proactively take actions on timing and extension of sourcing process and contracts.
  • Formulate action plans with defined objectives, targets and responsibilities to support agreed upon global sustainability strategies. Measure and monitor progress against global sustainability targets.
  • Provide contingency plans to ensure continuity of supply of your portfolio of materials.
  • Be accountable for Quality and Service from managed suppliers. Drive Quality and Service improvement strategies. Accountable for audit compliance. Contribute to zero consumer recalls.
  • Collaborate with peers in Procurement Logistics Freight Ocean/Air/Road in the Area of EUANZ and globally.
  • Support End to End solutions in Warehousing operations including digital within Supply Chain in the Area. Lead Supplier Relationship Management Program with selected supplier(s).

The experience we're looking for

  • Higher education preferably in Supply chain/Logistics or Business.
  • Business acumen, understanding and drive.
  • Extensive experience in Supply Chain and/or Warehousing and/or Logistics of min. 10 years.
  • Experience in procurement of at least one of the following fields NPS or Logistics Procurement of min. 3 years.
  • Agile and sharp in everyday work. Learning on a fly.
  • Able and willing to travel 20% of time or more. Excellent command of English verbal, reading, writing.
  • Other languages are a plus.

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, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, 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.

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Reckitt is a successful international FMCG player with a leading portfolio. Well-known brands such as Finish, Vanish or Dettol provide 'healthier lives & happier homes' with an innovative pipeline. An entrepreneurial, result-driven and can-do mindset is characteristic of Reckitt and ensures that everyone develops into a genuine #gamechanger.

FMCG
Hoofddorp
Active in 60 countries
43,000 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 35 years