Senior R&D Associate

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 R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

A great opportunity to be a part of a fast paced and dynamic team, where you’ll be empowered to technically lead multiple categories and brands under germ protection and household care categories – you will use your product development and delivery experience to work on exciting and fast paced projects. You will also lead multiple teams based in different place to build on team management and leadership. 

Location:

First year based in Dongguan

From Late 2026: Base in Shanghai

Your responsibilities

•Working as part of the Product Delivery and Maintenance (PDM) Germ Protection and Household team with the corresponding global Category Development Organization (CDO) and global R&D Innovation teams to deliver new revenue protection (NRP), new revenue growth (NRG) and Gross Margin Expansion/Improvement (GME/GMI) projects under Germ protection and Household categories in an efficient, cost effective and timely manner. 
•Brands under scope includes but not limited to: Lysol, Vanish, Woolite, Harpic, Aerogard and etc.
•Responsible countries include Great China (GC) including China mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan as well as Korea and Japan which are now clustered with GC as a bigger region called GC+NA (North Asia)
•Be able to handle independently big/complex projects with interaction with multiple cross functions and stakeholders
•Efficiently and effectively communicate/cooperate with cross functionals on the daily work basis to deal with regular requests and support needed from technical side
•Project managing technical workstreams with technical, chemical and executional complexity as well as speed to market challenges. 
•Working in the laboratory on formulation and validation testing in a safe and efficient manner to drive performance and claim substantiation.
•Proactively build a good team and assist team members on their personal and career development 
•Actively participate in global PDM programs and contribute
•Managing and guiding EMO’s on the requirements, formulation, development and testing in line with Success Criteria, COGs targets and manufacturability.  
•To have an overview of consumer needs and insights and be passionate on consumers and new trends to inspire new ideas generation  

The experience we're looking for

•Must be qualified to degree standard in a relevant scientific discipline, ideally Chemistry or Science 
•Sufficient experience in laboratory, familiar with general equipment and know how to operate, professional on lab management, 5S, QMS and etc.   
•Technical expertise and curiosity with a passion for problem solving and delivery. A proven track record of results.
•A good understanding of the R&D development process from end to end in FMCG industry, good at  RD project management.
•Action focused and results oriented mindset with strong problem solving skills. 
•Good communication skills coupled with good analytical and interpersonal skills. 
•Have great collaboration skills, be a good team player, a personable person with a creative and open attitude and action focus. 
•Sufficient experience of managing teams and proven to be a good team leader. 

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, 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.

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.