Traineeship - Sales - Trade Marketing

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.

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

Are you passionate about shaping the customer experience and influencing the journey of market-leading brands? As a Sales Trainee at Reckitt, you'll support strategies that directly impact the success in engaging shoppers. You'll partner with key customers using insights to inform their category strategy, whilst focusing on the fine details of the 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion, Place). In this position, you'll engage with a variety of teams to analyse trends and help create plans that resonate with customers and drive our brands to new heights. If you're ready to bring your visions to life and inspire change, this is your chance! 

How It Works: Submit a single application to be considered for all trainee roles. If you move forward in the process, you'll have the chance to discuss your preferences for specific roles during a screening call with our Talent Acquisition team.  

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.

Your responsibilities - Trade Marketing

• Daily Operations:
  • Track the performance of the BNL market (assortment, promotions, merchandising) and recommend adapted action plans.
  • Learn to adopt a “Category-First” approach, leveraging different category growth strategies to strengthen the plans of the brands.
  • Execute analysis to recommend the optimal promotional strategy.
  • Be responsible for KPI tracking (Promotions & Distribution).
  • Present a business case at the end of your internship.
  • Potentially Manage specific category & brand projects.

• Analysis & Reporting:
  • Assist with weekly and daily performance reporting and identify discrepancies between internal data and market data.
  • Help prepare dashboards for market performance and promotional effectiveness.
  • Support monthly analysis on various marketing topics for the department (promotional strategy, distribution efficiency, category growth, etc.).

The experience we're looking for

• Student at a business school with demonstrated autonomy and organizational skills.
• Sensibility for FMCG processes.
•  Eager to learn and result-oriented.
• Disciplined with a keen eye for detail and analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and a collaborative team spirit.
• Proficient in English. French or Dutch will be considered a plus.

What we offer

• Great opportunity to learn to work in a 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.