Buyer - External Manufacturing Operations EU - Essential Home
Reckitt
Operations, Accounting & Finance
schiphol, netherlands
Posted on Sep 15, 2025
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.
ESSENTIAL HOME
With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.
With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.
Supply Chain
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
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact in a leading global organisation? Reckitt is looking for a Buyer for External Manufacturing Operations (EMO) Procurement reporting to Procurement Manager EMO – Europe in Essential Home. Based in Amsterdam, this role will be responsible for the procurement of EMO categories for Europe. If you relish the challenges of managing procurement activities while contributing to our dynamic, purpose-led culture, let's connect your ambitions to our opportunities.
Your responsibilities
In summary, you'll:
- Assist in implementing the global strategy at the local level to deliver category objectives.
- Contract signature and management, support during Audit. Lead Scorecard process.
- Manage local supplier relationships. Work closely with local stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements and provide procurement support for various departments and projects.
- Manage procurement activities for items delegated to local teams within a low complexity/criticality scope. Support the delivery of results in key performance areas, including financial performance (budget, forecast, NWC, productivity, PPV), service and quality to plants, and innovation capture. Participate in identifying and implementing initiatives to enhance procurement efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-saving opportunities. Ensure compliance for delegated and local categories, including contract signature and management, and provide support during audits. Lead the scorecard process.
- Support implementation of the Sustainability & Diversity strategy in collaboration with the Sustainability team.
- Support vulnerability assessments on key supply / value chain risks and propose contingency plans when necessary.
- Other areas of responsibilities can be defined based on the category.
- Spend responsibility: upto 10mGBP.
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor/master’s degree in business, science/engineering, supply chain or equivalent.
- 2 to 3 years of experience in Procurement.
- Good English communication skills oral and written, second language is a plus.
The skills for success
Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, 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.