Job Description

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.

Sales

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.
We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

Lead the development and execution of trade marketing strategies to drive sales growth, improve market execution, optimize trade investment, and strengthen brand presence across all channels while ensuring effective budget control and return on investment.

Your responsibilities

Trade Marketing Strategy & Execution

Develop and execute annual and quarterly trade marketing plans aligned with business objectives.
Translate brand strategies into channel-specific activation plans.
Drive category growth through effective shopper marketing and in-store execution.
Lead promotional planning, visibility programs, and customer activation initiatives.

Trade Investment & Budget Management

Own and manage the Trade Marketing budget to ensure optimal allocation and utilization.
Monitor trade spend effectiveness and deliver maximum ROI on investments.
Track budget performance, accruals, and forecast accuracy.
Ensure compliance with company financial policies and governance requirements.

Sales & Channel Development

Partner with Sales teams to develop channel growth strategies and customer business plans.
Identify opportunities to improve distribution, visibility, and promotional effectiveness.
Support key account negotiations through commercial and trade marketing insights.
Drive execution excellence across Modern Trade, General Trade, and Emerging Channels.

Performance Analysis & Reporting

Analyze sales performance, market trends, and competitor activities to identify growth opportunities.
Evaluate promotion effectiveness and recommend optimization actions.
Develop business reviews and trade marketing performance dashboards.
Provide actionable insights to support decision-making.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and Category teams to ensure alignment.
Lead project execution from planning through post-implementation review.
Support new product launches and innovation commercialization.

The experience we're looking for

Proven ability to utilise data in decision-making and crafting persuasive narratives.
Knowledge of the consumer goods sector and eager to surmount its challenges.
Adept at turning statistics into actionable insights and sales strategies.
Exceptional attention to detail with the agility to thrive in a dynamic environment.
Skilled in delivering messages and ideas effectively to a broad audience.
Strong project management capabilities including thorough planning, communication, and budget handling.
Influential in your approach, able to guide and persuade a diverse group of stakeholders.
Autonomous, solution-oriented, with an omnichannel mindset towards all projects.

The skills for success

Trade Marketing, Key Account Management, Account Management, Consumer Insights, Shopper Insights, Customer Insights, Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills, Influencing, Commercial accumen, 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.

About Reckitt

Every day, in everything we do, our purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. And we have a fight on our hands. A fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Each of our products is designed to do exactly this. Our well-loved brands have been making a difference to people’s daily lives around the world for more than 200 years. Brands including: Durex, Dettol, Enfamil, Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, Nutramigen, Lysol, Harpic, Cillit Bang, Finish and Vanish.

By 2030, our ambition is to reach half of the world, every year. We’re a growing global community of over 43,000 people on a journey of transformation and sustainable growth. Together, our success will continue to positively impact communities everywhere, for a healthier planet and a fairer society.

Want to learn more about us? Visit reckitt.com

Industry

Manufacturing & Production

Company Size

10,000+ employees

Headquarters

Slough, GB

Year Founded

Unknown

Website

reckitt.com

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