Trading Lead

We are ReckittHome 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.Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt.We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands.Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society.With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact.Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D.Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams.With the scale of our **** marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.About the roleThe Trading Lead plays a pivotal role in overseeing our digital media trading operations across campaign activation planning & buying in-platform.As the senior lead in-market, you will be responsible for ensuring that all campaigns activated in-platform follow Reckitt's media governance processes & agreed ways of working.Acting as the in-market point of escalation for Italy & Greece Consumer Engagement team – the Trading Lead helps to facilitate the resolution of performance concerns, handling queries, improving team processes & managing expectations in-market to ensure key deliverables are met.You will be responsible for managing the overall workload of the team, helping to assign campaigns to digital traders & identifying where additional resources will be needed to support.Your responsibilitiesOversee the planning & execution of digital media buying across the Brand PodsBe the in-market escalation point for Consumer Engagement team – assisting in managing expectations & enforcing the agreed scope/deliverables of the teamOperationalize & scale channel best practices developed by the Digital Media ManagersPromote a unified approach to campaign planning, activation & optimizationEnsure all media trading activities comply with industry regulations & ethical standardsManage the team quarterly finance cross-charges and handle ongoing invoice queriesPromote key campaign learnings, presenting media case studies to the wider teamDeploy key Reckitt tools & Global DDM Programs across the AMS campaign workflowAssign campaigns to the Digital Associates to activate in-platform, helping to coordinate & distribute workload across the teamFoster a collaborative environment, encouraging innovation & continuous improvementConduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedbackSupport the Head of Trading in the standup and ongoing improvement of the model.The experience we're looking forBachelor's degree in marketing, Business, or a related fieldMinimum of 6 years' experience in digital media buying/planning, with at least 2 years in a leadership roleStrong understanding of the digital media ecosystem & operating biddable platformsExperience working & presenting to senior stakeholdersProven track record of managing teams & delivering business resultsHaving worked on key projects/tasks that involved developing, implementing & scaling process improvements across media workflowsKey Skills:Outstanding communication and interpersonal skillsHighly organized with the ability to prioritize tasks & team workloadAbility to problem solve & lead through times of ambiguityWillingness to take ownership, drive accountability across the teamFostering a collaborative environment for the team to contribute new ideasRemaining hyper focused & guiding the team on meeting their key deliverablesAbility to manage-up, set realistic expectations & hold each team member accountableHighly resourceful individual who seeks out support & can anticipate future problemsCan-do attitude that offers solutions to problems with clear & concise actionsGood proficiency in using Excel & PowerPointWhat we offerWith 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.EqualityWe 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.#J-*****-Ljbffr