Internship in Supply Chain

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.

Supply

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It’s how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it’s our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you’re looking for a career in supply chain, there’s no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

The trainee will have the opportunity to explore the main processes of the Supply function, supporting the tutor on the implementation of cross-functional projects, from a development and analytical point of view. Projects will be focused on the whole order flow and optimization of logistics processes in terms of service performance, costs and customer satisfaction. He/she will be able to rework the main Supply KPIs to create a Supply Chain dashboard that will support on the development of a strategy to anticipate supply chain future requirements, building a strong collaboration with customers.

Your responsibilities

• Monitoring KPIs bringing knowledge on them for the whole team to support tactical/strategic decisions
• Order Management: working over Company Service Level and Process efficiency, in order to improve way of doing things
• Supporting the productivity plan, being recognized as point of reference for all analysis to be made within the team (PFR, OT, FPO, CTS, order profile…)
• Collaborating with sales team on actions defined to implement them to improve customer satisfaction
• Making improvements on processes on customers that can bring value to the business (extracosts, customer perception,…) also in collaboration with distribution/logistic/customer service team and with sales team
• Sharing results achieved (Look at numbers to sustain perception)
• Reporting and analyzing current performance, proposing change/improvement to processes in order to be compliant/to improve way of doing things (focus on automation and workload reduction)

The experience we’re looking for

• MSc Degree in Engineering or Economics
• Fluency in Italian and English (an international experience during the studies or work is highly valued)
• Good knowledge of Ms Office (Excel, Word, Power Point)

The skills for success

• Highly analytical
• Ownership/drive for result
• Capable of gathering and processing complex data from a wide variety of sources
• Base knowledge of important supply chain processes/metrics/goals
• Strong relationship with internal/external stakeholders
• Independent, proactive, good on time management/prioritization

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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