We are seeking a highly skilled Buyer to lead sourcing activities for assigned scope within the Ocean and Air Freight category. This role involves, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders, developing strong partnerships with key suppliers and driving initiatives to decarbonize our ocean freight operations. Buyer will be responsible for defining category strategy and for execution of such strategy oriented to deliver business objectives, driving cost efficiencies, managing risk, and ensuring the business is well-positioned to respond to market fluctuations.
Your responsibilities
- Category & Portfolio Management: Define and implement the optimal strategy to deliver business objectives. Run procurement activities, including sourcing, RFQs, building expertise in the category and continuously improve the procurement process.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, managing performance, and ensuring high levels of service and cost-effectiveness. Explore the market to on-board new providers.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close co-operation with internal stakeholders across Supply Services and Factories within managed regions. Support to foster long term partnership with regional and global functions: Finance, Quality, Legal. Understand business needs, assess those needs to drive efficiency and cost effectiveness, high quality standards. Align procurement activities and decisions.
- Market Intelligence: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices. Monitor closely market development, leveraging data, trends, and industry insights to informed procurement decisions.
- Contract Negotiation & Management: Prepare and lead negotiation of commercial and contractual terms with freight providers, ensuring favourable terms, service levels, and cost controls. Monitor contract compliance and manage supplier performance against agreed KPIs.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify and assess vulnerability to key business risks and mitigate risk by building robust contingency plans within managed area. Mitigate risks associated with global ocean freight, including supply disruptions, capacity constraints, and price volatility.
- Financials: Be accountable for the financial performance, execution and accuracy of Financial Planning & Forecasting. Drive cost-saving initiatives and process efficiencies including NWC improvements within managed areas.
- Continuous Improvement, Reporting and Digitalization: Continuously evaluate and improve procurement processes and systems, ensuring best practices are followed and innovations are adopted. Support development of internal systems driving efficiency and leveraging robust data to informed procurement and supply chain management decisions.
- Sustainability: support in development and deployment of sustainable logistics policies and procedures, focusing on carbon footprint reduction and sustainable transportation practices.
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor/master’s degree in business, science/engineering, supply chain or equivalent.
- 1 to 3 years of experience in Procurement. Experience in Ocean and Air category itself is a plus
- Very good analytical skills and negotiation skills
- Good English communication skills oral and written, second language is a plus
The skills for success
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.
Kindly be advised that relocation assistance is not provided for this role.
