Category Development Executive

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege. Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where cross-functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

You will work on the front line of strategic execution and at the centre of product delivery within a FTSE10 Company and one of the top 3 TV advertisers in the UK - with results that consistently outperform our competitors. Our brands are Number 1 or Number 2 brands in all their primary markets and we work with key retail players like Tesco, Boots, Asda and Sainsbury (amongst many others!). You will be able to say that you work for the most successful market innovator in the sector - with 30% of sales over three years coming from new products - and a company recognised for the strength of its commercial capabilities, offering numerous career opportunities.

You will be responsible for implementing category growth strategies, through 4P tactical or strategic levers, which grow categories and ultimately drive sales and profit for Reckitt.

Your responsibilities:

• Execute best in class category management, to ensure Reckitt is delivering against retailer initiatives in line with Reckitt desires.
• Understand relevant Category Growth Drivers within the retailer, with quantifiable £RSV opportunity, and how 4P tactics will deliver growth.
• Build partnerships with key stakeholders, internally, considering touch points across various functions.
• Act without bias, but be commercially aware of decisions, communicating with tact and diplomacy at all times.
• Be involved in the range review process end to end.
• Drive Reckitt distribution, share of shelf and quality of placement via optimised range and merchandising.
• Translate & analyse data to recommend in-store actions aimed at strengthening the category.
• Performance Measures; advantage Group engagement ranking, scorecard achievement via measuring Customer, Shopper, Consumer, Retailer & Reckitt metrics, listed distribution tracker, leadership and engagement.

The experience we're looking for:

• Experience of developing and managing customer relationships.
• Confident & capable of communicating with key internal stakeholders.
• Passion for achievement; integrity and drive with a strong desire to make things happen.
• Links data to recommendations succinctly.
• Previous FMCG experience.
• Degree calibre.
• Data experienced; Nielsen, Space Planning, IRI, Kantar, or similar.
• Intermediate usage of Excel & PowerPoint.

The skills for success:

• Trade Marketing, Field sales; Field sales management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data.
• Leadership skills, Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis.
• Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development.
• Perform product planning, Business acumen; financial acumen, commercial acumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

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.