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R&D Senior Scientist, Product Delivery & Maintenance MJN, ASEAN

City: Chon Buri

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.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

R&D Product Delivery and Maintenance (PDM) is the R&D function responsible for products once they are launched on the market. The teams are based around the globe, working closely with R&D category development teams, supply, procurement, and commercial teams to identify and deliver projects to protect the existing business in addition to increasing the profitability of our products through cost saving programs. The role of a senior scientist in R&D PDM is to plan, manage and implement functional specific work associated with infant and child nutrition projects and portfolios, delivering complex projects, solving technical problems and recommending options to ensure that milestone plans are met. The senior scientist is responsible for executing strategy for the group, delivering team KPI’s and for managing a team of associates and assistants, supporting their personal development and the delivery of their own projects. The job is dynamic and complex, and the challenges you will face will give you the possibility to develop quickly, laying a solid foundation for your future career. , we're looking for you.

Your responsibilities

Provide Strategic direction to the team in order to: • Provide leadership, development & line management to your team.

• Deliver technical projects, ensuring that activities are executed to the standards required for the relevant product classification.

• Ensure all required formulation, feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trials and dossier preparation are performed on time and to the required quality and regulatory standards and in line with the MJN processes. Ensure all documentation is fit for purpose and audit ready. Please note that the duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment, which will require flexibility

• Generate and approve data which support product changes to a standard required by MJN and to meet regulatory authority standards

• Support the wider team with respect to required activities that support operations in shared laboratories

• Develop team knowledge and expertise to provide support for a given product portfolio

• Support the manager in measuring and reporting team KPIs to senior management

• Oversee and maintain team compliance with MJN working practices e.g. change management

The experience we're looking for

• Educated to at least Degree level (Food/Nutritional Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or other relevant science)

• R&D experience with a proven track record of delivery

• Line management and people development of a team

• Understanding of nutritional and food science or similar

• Experience of working closely with the supply organization

• Track record of generating technical documentation and reports to support product registration

• An excellent technical problem solver

• Proven track record in active collaboration with R&D and non-R&D functions

• Experience with resource planning and prioritization

• Ability to deliver through others PERSONAL ATTRIB

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

R&D leadership of a designated range of products with the key goal of protecting the business through the delivery of compliance programs and supply service maintenance as well as implementation of cost saving initiatives to increase profitability. • To work with partners (supply, regulatory, nutrition science, PMO, legal, Marketing, Category R&D) to deliver projects/solutions across the infant and child nutrition portfolio. • To formulate, validate and implement a range of portfolio improvement and maintenance projects • Identification for finding and working with 3rd parties as needed to progress projects and bring in new capabilities. • Taking lead on ways to improve our ways of working within R&D & with other functions for process improvement • Responsible for various technologies.

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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