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Sales Trainee

Reckitt

Reckitt

Sales & Business Development
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Oct 28, 2024

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

We are seeking a dynamic Sales Trainee to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in sales, account management, and customer relationship building, working closely with our National Account Manager, Key Account Managers and other professionals in the field.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

• Customer Relationship Management: Assist National Account Manager in developing and maintaining strong relationships with key customers in the pharmacy channel.

• Commercial Strategy Development: Collaborate with the sales team to develop and implement strategic sales plans for assigned key accounts, contributing ideas to improve customer engagement and drive both business and category growth.

• Sales Reporting & Forecasting: Assist in preparing sales reports, tracking key account performance, and helping to forecast future sales based on customers needs and market conditions.

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including trade marketing and operations to ensure alignment on customer requirements and successful project execution.

• Product Knowledge: Gain in-depth knowledge of the company’s brands and products, becoming an expert point of contact for customers

• Sales Support: Provide support in the sales process, including preparing presentations and proposals tailored to customer needs.

The experience we're looking for

- Recent graduate in Business, Marketing, or related field, eager to forge a path in sales.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with the team and clients.
- An analytical approach with a talent for interpreting data and market insights.
- Resilience and adaptability within a vibrant sales environment.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple tasks under pressure.

The skills for success

Work under pressure, Excellent writing skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills stakeholder management, organised, Excel

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.