KAM Traditional Trade - UAE

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

Embark on an impactful journey with Reckitt as our next Export Manager, where your expertise will catalyse our international sales operations. This position is pivotal for those who are passionate about fostering global market growth and building robust relationships with international clients. You'll be orchestrating strategies to elevate our global presence, adhering to export regulations with finesse, and working collaboratively across departments to streamline export activities. Dive into a role where your strategic influence will shape not just business outcomes, but also inspire industry leading practises.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving strategic objectives per customer – i.e. Net Revenue, Operating Profit, Gross Margin, Net Working Capital
• Build long-term partnerships with the customer. Manage customer negotiations in relation to Reckitt’s commercial strategy and the customer trading terms
• Capitalizing business progression based on expansion plans of the customers to drive Net Revenue
• Implementation and ongoing management of the category strategy per customer
• Responsible for the promotional strategy per customer, and promotional execution (including trade budget management, range and space optimization)
• Responsible for developing customer new product launch plans and ensuring successful implementation
• Continuous improvement in the management of the account by identifying opportunities for efficiency and profitability and overall improvement in the management of categories
  
  

The experience we're looking for

• Strong Leadership abilities and business acumen
• Strategic Planning & Monitoring: Proactively collect and analyse relevant data and, where necessary, seek new data sources to identify opportunities for corrective action and growth.
• Building Business / Customer Relationships: Leads in the management of stakeholder interests and continually enhances relationships while building new stakeholder and company linkage
• Negotiation & Influence: Plans and undertakes complex and contractual business negotiations with major customers
• Innovative and creative in designing Key Account strategies
• Minimum 6 years FMCG experience in Sales Account Management
• Educated to minimum bachelor’s degree level ideally in a business-related subject from a recognized University
  
  

The skills for success

Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing.

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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