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R&D Associate, Germ Protection

City: Gurugram

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

The role of R&D Associate is to support the development of new products and technologies based on relevant consumer insights across the Global Personal care.
The R&D Associate will be responsible for formulation development, analytical testing while contributing to manufacturing process development and continuous improvement, ensuring operational efficiency and effective project planning to deliver agreed development milestones.

Based within the Category R&D structure the role is positioned to manage hands on scientific and technical aspects to support specified projects.
The role is based out of Gurgaon, India within the Global Category R&D facility for Global Personal care. The role reports to R&D Senior Associate.

Your responsibilities

Lead regional technical development including formulation and process development on key bar soap initiatives for Reckitt’s Dettol brand by leveraging prior experience/expertise to help drive pipeline growth.
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Initiate and leverage partnerships with local and global raw material suppliers to deliver existing and new bar soap innovation needs.
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Develop technical plans to meet project brief objectives and conduct all technical testing to deliver high quality innovation
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Conduct bar soap trials at lab /Pilot Scale and commercial scale to define critical manufacturing process parameter and validate the same to enable method of manufacture development.
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Monitor critical process parameters and implement corrective/preventive recommendations while manufacturing process development.
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Contribute to root cause analysis (RCA), and failure investigations while troubleshooting manufacturing process.

Report test/factory trial results, draw conclusions from trials and prepare manufacturing process summary reports.
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Proposes operating instructions for updating manufacturing process manuals / SOPs and trains the team and operators in the use of modified manufacturing processes
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Responsible for ensuring that all development activity within the team conforms to health & safety and quality requirements.
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Maintain laboratory equipment and execute laboratory work according to required safety and quality standards, as defined in the company's SOPs.
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Document all feasibility development work in laboratory notebooks as per internal quality standards

The experience we're looking for

QUALIFICATIONS
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Master’s Degree (Chemical engineering, Pharmacy, Cosmetic technology or other relevant field of science).
EXPERIENCE
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5–7 years of experience in Research and Development, preferably in Bar soap formulation and processing.
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Know-how of statistical tools to establish process control.
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Strong knowledge of unit operations, scale up and manufacturing process optimisation

Capable to work independently toward multiple project objectives within established timelines.
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Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a team-oriented environment, including cross-functional project teams involving members from Marketing, Supply, Manufacturing, Quality, procurement and regional R&D teams
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Working and collaborating with cross cultural functional teams to deliver project objectives
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Ready for a fast-paced response to demanding customer requirements with challenging timelines
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Responsible for supporting the delivery of specific project milestones without comprising on safety and quality standards
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Must be willing/able to travel (up to 25%) to support project needs PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/ EXPERIENCE
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Well versed with statistical design of experiments for manufacturing process optimization & validation
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Proficiency in digital tools for data modelling for scale up and process development. R&D experience in development of surfactant-based formulation with a proven track record of delivery.
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Understanding of microbiology, clinical & instrumental testing methodology of skin care products to support future claims across Dettol personal care product format
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Strong technical knowledge in Surfactant chemistry, Soaps, Microbiology, & Skin Science
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Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

The skills for success

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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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