About the Position

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.

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.

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, explainability, 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.

Requirements

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.
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.

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.
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).

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.

IT&D Product Manager - Genesis Procurement

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