Global Category Lead - Insights & Analytics + Design & Artwork - FTC

Responsibilities

This role will lead and facilitate the global sourcing strategy, negotiation, and supplier relationship management for Marketing – Insights & Analytics and Design & Artwork services. Operating at the heart of indirect procurement, the position is highly strategic and will embed procurement excellence across the Source‑to‑Contract process, ensuring value creation, contractual protection, and service excellence on a global scale. The role will require managing large‑scale, time‑critical negotiations and procurement transformation programmes.

You will work closely with senior leaders across Corporate Functions:
Marketing Excellence, Finance, IT&D, Legal, Supply, Data Protection and Responsible AI as well as with Reckitt Strategic external partners, positioning Procurement as a trusted advisor in shaping business transformation and outsourcing strategy. Global Category Strategy & Governance:
Define and implement global category strategies for Insights & Analytics and Design & Artwork. Align across geographies, business functions, and senior stakeholders, balancing standardisation with flexibility. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) & Value Realisation:
Lead all negotiations and strategies with a TCO lens, ensuring contracts deliver sustainable cost efficiencies, quality of service, and innovation beyond initial savings. Strong understanding of different commercial models and ensure outcomes are measured and delivered advising the business on the right framework and governance model. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM):
Drive the Joint Business Planning process in collaboration with the business. Defining and driving JBP strategies with top strategic partners. Create transparency, deliver innovation pipelines, and hold suppliers accountable for performance.

Contracting &

Risk Management:

Lead high‑value negotiations with legal, financial, and operational complexity. Partner closely with Legal and Finance to ensure contracts are robust, commercially competitive, and aligned to strategic objectives with the right governance models in place. Cross‑Functional Alignment & Influence:
Actively partner with senior business leaders to challenge demand, shape outsourcing strategies, and ensure procurement is embedded at the earliest stages of decision‑making. Value Beyond Savings:
Drive initiatives such as supplier innovation, simplification of supplier base, and optimisation. Focus on measurable business outcomes, not just cost savings. Deliver internal Bootcamps on Procurement ways of working. Technology‑Enabled Procurement:
Leverage digital procurement tools (Smart Buy, eSourcing contract management platforms, Spend Cube, NWC tracker and analytics) to enable value deliver, visibility, compliance, and speed in sourcing decisions. Spend Control Tower Process Leadership (SCT):
Active member of the SCT process to review and manage demand, ensuring right sourcing process, risk mitigation, and compliance. Establish templates, playbooks, and frameworks to enable efficient, high‑quality contracting.

Proven experience in strategic procurement and transformation leadership within marketing, ideally at a global level.

• Comfortable leading large, complex negotiations with global partners.
• Strong understanding of commercial models, contract structures, and risk mitigation in marketing.
• Demonstrable ability to influence and partner with senior leadership across multiple functions.
• Experience in successful partnering with large external suppliers to deliver outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to communicate, build rapport, and influence at all levels.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and adapting negotiation styles to achieve outcomes.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands‑on deal execution.
• Experience working in a multinational environment with cross‑border stakeholder management.
• Creative problem‑solver with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Excellent knowledge of marketing and its emerging trends.

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