Brand Commercial Manager

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.

**Finance**:

- Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt. With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Business partner with Marketing and Trade Marketing teams to deliver on brand strategies across all customers, including supporting new product development and range extension plans, and identifying gross margin improvement initiatives
- Develop and review joint business plans made between Reckitt and our external customers to ensure that opportunities are mutually beneficial and drive the correct behaviours.
- Review any ad-hoc/incremental investment opportunities to assess and improve profitability, and provide challenge to ensure that financials and assumptions are robust
- Pre and post promotional evaluation, providing deep insight and challenge to financials.
- Review and challenge monthly customer and brand forecasts, driving accuracy of the forecasting process.
- Proactively highlight future performance concerns and opportunities to the Sales, Marketing & Finance Leadership teams and account teams, taking an active role in planning any gap close activity.
- Perform key tasks within the Commercial Finance team to ensure that reporting is both timely & accurate.
- Provide management with relevant financial information as requested.
- Monitor monthly trade spend for your Customer to ensure correct accrual bookings at month end and appropriate balance sheet reconciliations for trade spend vs expected claims
- onitor monthly marketing and trade marketing spend for your Brands to ensure correct accrual bookings at month end and appropriate balance sheet reconciliations for marketing accruals
- Develop and review marketing forecasts for your Brand and monitor actual spend to ensure costs are within budget / forecast
- Work within the team to develop new tools & systems to improve ROI review
- No control surprises for your Customer Group through the following; integrity of Siebel accruals, pricing schedules, bonus calculations, rebate approvals, annual contract reviews etc
- Other duties as required.

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Strong commercial knowledge and skill set.
- Skilled in building relationships and effectively communicating to influence across all levels of the organisation.
- A forward-thinking, global outlook with the ability to deliver results under pressure.
- A results-driven approach with a track record of using analytical skills to improve business processes.

**The skills for success**:

- Tax law, Tax compliance, Business accumen, Improve business processes, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Accounting principles.

**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 orientatio