Traineeship - Assistant Brand Manager - Self-Care

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.

Marketing

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.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for 2 motivated Assistant Brand Manager Trainees for our Selfcare brands (Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, ...) in Brussels 

Your Responsibilities
Reporting to the Brand Manager, you will contribute to the development and performance of the OTC portfolio by:

• Brand performance analysis: tracking sales evolution and market performance across different channels (e.g. pharmacies in Belgium, supermarkets & drugstores in the Netherlands) using market-specific databases (Nielsen & IQVIA).
• Campaign development & execution: assisting in the creation and roll-out of marketing campaigns, from promotional offers to digital activations, while ensuring strong alignment with brand objectives, close follow-up with regulatory and within deadlines.
• Regulatory collaboration: supporting close follow-up with our regulatory department and external authorities to defend claims, secure approvals, and enable the launch of new products or claims.
• Healthcare professional material development: developing and adapting educational and promotional content tailored to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to effectively communicate product benefits to further drive recommendation.
• Project support: contributing to packaging, artwork, point-of-sales material and customer/consumer materials development to ensure consistency and compliance. 

You will be part of an international and multicultural team, where diversity is very high both in terms of gender and in terms of nationality, and performance drives growth. This internship provides a unique opportunity to learn the dynamics of OTC healthcare marketing, where consumer insights, medical rigor, and commercial excellence meet.

To be eligible for the role, you must be enrolled in a University based in the EU and be able to obtain an internship/university agreement.

The experience we're looking for

• Pursuing a degree in business, marketing, communications, pharmacy, or a related field.
• Fluency in English. French or Dutch will be considered a plus.
• Excellent analytical skills combined with creativity and problem-solving abilities.  
• Flexible, proactive, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Results-oriented, entrepreneurial mindset with eagerness to learn.
• Tenacious and resilient.
• Eager to learn.
• Strong interest in healthcare, consumer health, or OTC products is an advantage.

You'll love it because

• You get a real training program when arriving at Reckitt: analytics, media support, legal context, ...
• You work inside a global company, renowned for the quality and the excellence of its marketing.
• A dynamic international team who uses French and English as working language
• A lot of contacts with other departments: Trade Marketing, Market Research, Supply Chain, Legal, Manufacturing, R&D… and external contacts with suppliers, design, and advertising agencies.

Our offer to you

• You get a real training program when arriving at Reckitt: analytics, media support, regulatory context, ...
• You work inside a global company, renowned for the quality and the excellence of its marketing.
• A dynamic international team who uses French and English as working language
• A lot of contacts with other departments: Trade Marketing, Regulatory, Market Research, Supply Chain, Legal, Manufacturing, R&D… and external contacts with suppliers, design, and advertising agencies.

• Great opportunity to learn to work in a OTC/FMCG, international environment.
• Responsibilities from day 1.
• 6 months traineeship agreement with the possibility, with outstanding personal performance, to enter Reckitt a full time role and grow further.

• Location: Brussels
• Start Date: 29th of June 2026
• Competitive salary of €980 per month. 

Each adventure with Reckitt is different – It’s up to you to play! Join us!

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

At Reckitt, 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. Come and join a team whose purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.

All qualified applicants to Reckitt 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.