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Goodbye Sydney...Kiaora New Zealand

The reason I have been missing in action for the past few weeks is because I've been busy organising my next role in another country!

 

I've accepted an international secondment as my last role in the graduate program where I'll be moving on from marketing and instead taking up a position in trade marketing in New Zealand.
It will be exciting to start a new role in a new market, work with a new team, work on a new portfolio and live in a new country!
As it states on the graduate page of the RB career site: "We can’t tell you exactly how your career will develop with Reckitt Benckiser. What we can tell you is this: you’ll have every opportunity to prove yourself, to push beyond your boundaries and to create a successful future for our business and yourself".

 

This will also be my last post on the RB blog.

I am handing over the Aussie RB  blogging baton to Raymond (pictured right),a fellow graduate who is currently working as a sales analyst for our Pharmacy te [...]

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Eva – Marketing

Assistant Brand Manager

Name: Eva
Nationality: Australian
Where I work for RB: Australia – Marketing

Career: Although my career at RB has only been 18 months in the making I can’t even begin to describe the plethora of new facts/skills/experiences I have picked up along the way. My advice is just to take a deep breath and dive in………

Headfirst into my humbling start as a sales representative – rising early to get  in-store, negotiating with some weird & wonderful store managers for product displays, and learning to perfect the art of reverse parking in tight spaces became my new norm – until 9 months in – then my career went down the toilet…. as I was thrust into the role of assistant brand manager on Harpic (and recently Carpet Care).

Bad toilet puns aside…(and believe me I’ve heard them all) needing to think and learn fast in RB marketing is an understatement. The challenge of managing budgets, attending TV shoots, developing new bottles, writing briefs, approving point of sale or in other words jumping from A to Z and back again is all in a day’s work. Set against a backdrop of some lively discussions, great friends and lots of laughs does make getting it right all that much sweeter…

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