Procurement Manager

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.

​Supply​

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

As Procurement Manager, you’ll lead Direct Procurement and Indirect Supply activities across South Africa, managing a team of Buyers and driving strategic sourcing and cost optimisation across packaging, raw materials and services.You’ll play a key role in improving cost efficiency, gross margin and working capital by developing and strengthening purchasing strategies, tools and processes. The role also oversees high-level contracting activities, including product development and supply, intellectual property and third-party investments.

Your responsibilities

• Procurement Strategy: Develop and implement regional procurement strategies, including strategic sourcing and supplier contracting, to drive competitive advantage and meet business needs.
• Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate and manage reliable suppliers, ensuring performance, quality and service through regular scorecards and continuous improvement.
• Compliance & Quality: Partner with Compliance and Quality teams to ensure suppliers meet human rights, quality, B-BBEE, procurement and legal requirements.
• Contract Management: Lead supplier negotiations and contract management in collaboration with Legal, ensuring competitive terms, risk mitigation and effective implementation.
• Cost Optimisation & Productivity: Drive cost optimisation, productivity, gross margin improvement and working capital efficiency through cost modelling, negotiations and collaboration with global teams.
• Process Improvement: Continuously improve procurement processes and systems by implementing best practices and driving operational efficiency.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with R&D, Production, Finance and other stakeholders to deliver business requirements and productivity targets on time.
• People Leadership: Lead, coach and develop a team of Purchasing Managers and Buyers, strengthening procurement capabilities and supplier relationship management.
• Budget Management: Manage procurement budgets and cost assumptions for materials and services, ensuring financial accuracy and cost control.
• Supply Risk & Market Intelligence: Identify and mitigate sourcing and supply risks, develop contingency plans and monitor commodity feedstock trends and market dynamics to ensure supply continuity and capture commercial opportunities.

The experience we're looking for

• At least 10 + years' of procurement experience, including leading medium to large teams across different seniority levels and managing senior stakeholders.
• Relevant business related degree
• Procurement management experience within FMCG or within a manufacturing environment.
• Successful experience in purchasing commodity materials within a multi-country environment. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools.

The skills for success

Financial and commercial acumen; negotiation and influencing; stakeholder management; relationship building; strategic thinking; problem solving; confident decision making; integrity and accountability; resilience and adaptability; results focus; organisation and prioritisation; proficiency in Microsoft tools.

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.