ITandD Product Manager - Genesis Procurement

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.

Information Technology & Digital

In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About The Role

The role ensures clear product vision, roadmap ownership, and strong value delivery, translating Genesis objectives into well‑defined product outcomes aligned to procurement priorities. This includes shaping product strategy, defining success metrics, prioritising backlogs, and ensuring products are delivered in line with agreed objectives, timelines, and governance standards.

The Product Manager works closely with programme leadership, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and enabling IT&D functions to maintain transparency, support informed decision‑making, and ensure that Genesis products deliver measurable business value. This includes contributing to executive forums (e.g. Steering Committee and EOLT) with clear product insights on progress, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization.

Your responsibilities

Product Strategy & Ownership

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple AI products across the Source‑to‑Pay lifecycle (e.g. sourcing, negotiations, contracting, supplier management, buying, savings tracking).

Translate Procurement strategy and pain points into high‑value AI use cases, balancing innovation with practical business impact.

Define product success through clear value metrics, KPIs, and adoption measures, ensuring benefits are realised and sustained.

AI Product Delivery

Lead the end‑to‑end product lifecycle: discovery, POCs, MVPs, scaling, and continuous improvement.

Shape and prioritise the product backlog, working closely with Product Owners, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, AI Engineers, Business Analysts, and Architects.

Ensure AI products are designed responsibly, with appropriate consideration for model performance, explain ability, data quality, security, and compliance.

Stakeholder and External Partners Management

Act as the primary interface between Procurement, IT&D and Partners/Vendors

Partner closely with Procurement leaders across GBS to ensure tight business alignment on benefits delivery and adoption.

Manage and govern relationships with external partners, ensuring outcomes, delivery quality, and knowledge Innovation and Thought Leadership

Stay current with AI trends including LLMs, agent‑based systems, optimisation algorithms, game theory, and decision intelligence, and assess their relevance for Procurement.

Champion experimentation and learning, helping the organisation move from proof‑of‑concept to scaled value.

Act as an AI evangelist within Procurement, able to simplify complex concepts for non‑technical stakeholders.

The experience we're looking for

Skills/Experiences

Essential

• 12+ years of experience as a Product Manager delivering digital or AI driven products.
• Strong Procurement domain knowledge, particularly across the Source to Pay process.
• Solid understanding of AI and analytics concepts, including LLMs, ML models, algorithms, and data pipelines (hands on coding not required).
• Ability to work effectively in complex, matrixed environments with global stakeholders.
• Experience working with external vendors and partners to deliver technology products.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience delivering AI products in procurement, supply chain, or enterprise functions.
• Familiarity with concepts such as agentic AI, optimisation, simulation, and game theory.
• Experience operating within Agile / product led delivery models.
• Background in transformation, innovation, or advanced analytics programmes.
  
  

Technical / Professional Qualifications:

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience using product and delivery management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, Productboard, or similar) to manage backlogs, roadmaps, and delivery flow.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint (executive storytelling), PowerBI (analysis and value tracking), and Word.
• Solid understanding of digital and AI product lifecycles, including discovery, MVP delivery, scaling, and benefits realisation.
  
  

Desired

• Certification or formal training in Product Management (e.g., Pragmatic, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, Scrum Product Owner).
• Certification or training in Agile / Scaled Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to or training in AI, analytics, or data driven products (e.g., Generative AI, Machine Learning fundamentals)
  
  

The skills for success

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership, AI Product Management, Procurement (Source-to-Pay) Expertise, Stakeholder Management & Alignment, Backlog Prioritisation & Value Definition, Agile / Product-led Delivery, Data & AI Concepts (LLMs, ML, Data Pipelines), End-to-End Product Lifecycle Management (Discovery to Scale), Vendor & Partner Management, Business Value Realisation & KPIs, Cross-functional Leadership (Tech & Business Teams), Risk & Governance Management, Decision Making & Problem Solving, Communication & Executive Storytelling, Tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Productboard, PowerBI)

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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