Procurement Manager - Marketing Content Production

This job is with Reckitt, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. 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.

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.

About the role: Step into a role where you can make a meaningful impact on a truly global scale. We’re looking for a motivated, organised, and forward-thinking Category Manager to help shape and elevate our procurement agenda. In this position, you’ll lead procurement activities for a defined area of our global category, primarily focused on Content Production and Medical Marketing, working closely with the Global Category Lead to drive sustainable, value-led strategies.

You’ll take ownership of a diverse portfolio spanning 68 countries and more than 10 strategic suppliers, nurturing a high-performing ecosystem that fuels innovation, unlocks new capabilities, and supports business growth. With a strong blend of autonomy and collaboration, you’ll guide supplier performance, commercial governance, and price efficiency, ensuring the best outcomes across cost, quality, service, innovation, and speed to market.

This role offers the opportunity to partner with regional procurement teams, lead strategic initiatives, and champion new ways of working. As a key change agent, you’ll help embed sustainable procurement practices across the organisation while delivering year-on-year value through thoughtful sourcing, supplier-led innovation, and strategic negotiation.

Your Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the category sub section end to end, consolidating spend and delivering a holistic, value led category strategy in partnership with the business.
• Drive sustainable value across cost, net working capital, quality, service, innovation and risk through effective category planning and stakeholder collaboration.
• Design and execute sourcing and supplier strategies that leverage global scale, ensure supply resilience and create competitive advantage.
• Lead strategic supplier relationships and commercial frameworks, ensuring consistent performance, continuous improvement and preferred customer positioning.
• Monitor market trends and emerging innovations, translating insights into actionable opportunities for the category.
• Embed sustainability, DE&I and responsible sourcing objectives into category strategies and supplier engagements.
• Govern category performance through robust metrics, risk management, commercial oversight and timely, transparent reporting.

The experience we’re looking for:

• Degree qualified (bachelor's or equivalent) in Marketing, Finance, Business or other relevant discipline; specialisation or professional experience in Procurement or Marketing would be preferred.
• Significant work experience (typically 7+ years) in indirect procurement (preferably marketing procurement), marketing operations, or agency management within global organisations or creative agency environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional sourcing and commercial projects in complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of the elements of creative agency pricing/operations and how to optimise it for value, performance and impact.
• Proven capability in complex negotiations supported by effective interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, assess supplier performance, and present clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• High level of proficiency in English, both written and verbal, for internal communication and commercial negotiations. Knowledge of other languages is beneficial.
• Communicates clearly, concisely and in a structured manner, both verbally and in writing.

The skills for success:

• Supply Chain Management
• Business Partnership
• Collaboration and partnership building
• Relationship Management
• Business Acumen
• Productivity management
• Distribution Logistics
• 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.