Sales Placement Year

Business, Analytics, Data.

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.

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​Sales​

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online.

Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

Launch your career in sales with a dynamic internship at Reckitt! This is not your average sales role; it's a springboard into understanding the fast-paced world of sales from the inside out. As a placement year in our sales organisation, you'll be learning about analysis, 4P strategy and customer engagement. You'll gain hands-on experience across diverse brands and play a supportive role in driving our business objectives.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of Reckitt's expansive brand portfolio.
  • Assist with crafting and executing impactful sales analysis and strategies. 
  • Collaborative with various teams to bolster sales efforts and achieve targets.
  • Engage in analysis to spot sales opportunities and understand market trends.

The experience we're looking for

  • Strong Excel Skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with the team.
  • An analytical approach with a talent for interpreting data and market insights.
  • Resilience and adaptability within a vibrant sales environment.
  • Organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple tasks under pressure.
  • This role is open to Master's/Post-graduate students as well as those currently studying a Bachelor's

The skills for success

Work under pressure, Excellent writing skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills stakeholder management, organised.

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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  • Deadline
    Ongoing
  • Salary
    Competitive + benefits
  • Degree required
    All grades
  • Duration
    1 year
  • Location
    Slough (Berkshire)
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Preferred Disciplines...
  • Analytics
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Data Science
  • Pharmacology
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  • All STEM disciplines
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