Logistics Procurement Manager, Canada

Logistics Procurement Manager, Canada

City : Toronto

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.

Procurement

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

Join Reckitt, a global leader in consumer health and hygiene, as our Procurement Manager for Non-Production Spend (NPS). Lead the charge to drive innovative procurement solutions that will streamline our operations and contribute to our sustainability efforts.

In this forward-thinking role, you'll be pivotal in crafting procurement strategies that support our company's ambitions, while optimising costs and nurturing solid supplier partnerships.

This is an opportunity that combines strategic vision with tangible achievements a role where your influence extends beyond procurement, touching every facet of our business.

Your responsibilities

• Develops and drives implementation of Canada sourcing strategies for logistic categories, including warehousing and freight spends.
• Works closely with Regional key stakeholders in understanding needs, objectives and priorities to optimise total cost, quality and service
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and works cross-functionally in developing and executing sound sourcing strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders and vendors
• Understands service spends across the business, analyses category markets and translates into actionable strategies and forward-looking analyses.

Identifies, selects and develops suppliers, negotiates and contracts within portfolio and supply based in alignment with RB Global and local strategies.

• Establishes strategic relationships with supply base and implements supplier management strategies. Motivates suppliers to treat the company as preferred customer in presenting innovation and / or cost / efficiency projects
• Becomes a key member of Procurement NPS Logistic team that will drive sustained performance and improve procurement effectiveness.
• Accountable to continuously improve supplier performance including service and quality.
• Prepares budget assumptions for portfolio in line with Canada Strategies and assumptions.
• Identifies and monitor risks and opportunities related to each category. Drive the organization to mitigate identified risks and to quickly implement opportunities adopting creative solutions.
• Designs verifies and amends contracts in conjunction with Legal Dept. Special attention is dedicated to protect intellectual property, minimize liabilities, exclusivity period of innovation, ensure availability and cost improvement.
• Acts to continuously deliver COP improvement and NWC

The experience we're looking for

6 to 9+ years of experience in a truly global organization. Proven experience in working in a fast moving and result driven environment which demands to work under pressure.

Knowledge of Procurement, supply chain, logistics and / or ability to understand a completely unfamiliar environment is required.

• Familiar with leading complex, cross-functional, sourcing projects
• Have experience working in a matrix organization and working closely with stakeholders / budget owners.
• Degree qualified preferably in Engineering, Finance, Business or other relevant discipline. MBA advantageous
• Unsurpassed negotiation techniques with exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Firsthand approach with a high-level ownership and accountability
• Familiarity with legal and compliance aspects of procurement.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, 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.

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