R&D Operations 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

As an R&D Operations Associate you'll merge your scientific skills with technical know-how and work collaboratively across functions to expand your expertise. Embracing the opportunity to hone your leadership abilities, you’ll play an integral role in project delivery. Your influence will shape not just the products we bring to the market, but also the future trajectory of our budding leaders.

Your responsibilities

- Lead projects to ensure launches are on time, within budget, and meet defined success criteria.

- Assume leadership for low-to-medium risk R&D projects in relevant category, ensuring the implementation at regional/local level by ensuring all required formulation, feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trials and dossier preparation are performed on time and to the required internal and external standards and market conditions

- Reviewing of trial and other technical documents.
- Ensure effective implementation of and adherence to the requirements of the local Quality Management System to meet global QMS standards.
-  Implement global product initiatives with R&D Product Development and other R&D teams.
- In key R&D Operations site(s) of each category, assume TPL responsibility when project leadership is assigned, based on an agreement with R&D Product Development
- Guide assistants or technicians to help them develop, reflecting your evolving leadership journey.
- Communicate efficiently with supervisors and cross-functional teams, keeping everyone informed and aligned.
- Build and share your technical expertise in our product portfolio, embracing Reckitt's innovative spirit and operating models.

- Prepare a project plan with timeline alongside the Project Management team for all technical activities to be performed
- Work on formulation development.
- Ensure project briefs are reviewed/completed and resources are allocated as per plan.
- Keep a good track of the activities versus the plan, keep the key stakeholders informed about the progress and issues, and manage changes to preserve the commitment.
- Proactively engage with local commercial organizations in relation to consumer complaints, quality issues, competitor challenges and legal/regulatory inquiries concerning technical matters relating to products marketed within the region.
- Proactively engage with Supply function regarding technology and product expertise, for production start-up, quality improvements and cost savings projects.
- Proactively engage closely with Marketing organizations (local/regional) to provide technical expertise and required business support to evaluation (Portfolio Management) and execution of commercial initiatives and projects.

The experience we're looking for

- Solid background in R & D, or related areas like Regulatory, Safety, Quality, or Supply.

- Minimum 3 years of experience with a proven track record of successful delivery of technical projects in a FMCG company

- Technical knowledge and expertise in 3-5 Aerosol technology
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate on projects and a history of successfully meeting delivery targets.
- Independent work style, complemented by strong problem-solving and organisational talents.

- Strong formulation knowledge and understanding of chemical interactions that would allow to work on different categories
- Communicative and influential, you're a team player who knows how to get things done.
- An affinity for innovation and improvement, challenging the norm when needed.

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.

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.