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Consumer Safety Associate, Essential Home

City: Kingston upon Hull

We are Reckitt

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Research & Development

The Consumer Safety function ensures all Essential Home products are safe and suitable for consumer use. It applies human and environmental risk assessments and communicates any issues impacting safety or regulatory compliance.

We achieve this by reviewing ingredients, finished products, packaging, and articles throughout the product lifecycle to mitigate human and environmental risks. Leveraging toxicological and scientific expertise, the team enables innovation, drives safety by design, ensures compliance, and provides a competitive edge.

Our integrated Consumer Safety team partners with the business to deliver strategic technical guidance. Success requires a strong blend of scientific knowledge and commercial understanding to keep the consumer at the heart of everything we do.

About the role

This role sits within the Consumer Safety team, part of the Regulatory and Safety (RAS) function in R&D.

You will prepare and deliver non-clinical regulatory documentation for Essential Home brands such as Mortein, Air Wick, Calgon and Cillit Bang. Working with experienced toxicologists, you’ll assess new and existing products to ensure compliance, accurate labelling, and acceptable exposure/risk levels.

Global in scope, the role involves partnering with safety colleagues to meet RAS objectives. A solid understanding of consumer product safety assessment is essential.

Your responsibilities

Working alongside technical experts, the individual will be responsible for conducting human health risk assessments for consumer products marketed globally, in accordance with the company policies and guidelines.
In partnership with the wider RAS team, ensure that assessments at Essential Home are performed applying current scientific knowledge, methods and in compliance with relevant regulations and legislation.
Conduct impact and safety assessments for ingredients and products where appropriate and provide effective and timely communication of key safety issues, scientific information and risk assessments related to Essential Home products to key stakeholders.
Follow scientific and regulatory development in the field of safety assessment to proactively address and implement new knowledge and standards.
As necessary and in compliance with Essential Home policies, support the placement and conduct of toxicological tests required to support product registration and safety.
Deliver consistent and high-quality safety assessments to support the safety of Essential Home products.
Assist with statutory reporting requirements and in the response to adverse health effects, complaints and product incidents.

The experience we're looking for

BSc but preferably a higher qualification (MSc, PhD) in Toxicology or related discipline with relevant product safety experience.
Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to deliver expertise in support of Essential Home products.
Working knowledge of conducting consumer-relevant risk assessments of hygiene products.
Working knowledge of global regulatory frameworks governing the safe development (and registration, as applicable) of household and/or pesticide products.
Intermediate level of technical expertise and analysis and interpretation of toxicological data.
Good communication and business partnering skills.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Regulatory, Dossier writing, Collaborator, Product Lifecycle Management, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Objective Setting, Business Strategy.

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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