Global Category Medical Science Lead, Intimate Wellness

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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

Global Category Medical Science Lead, Intimate Wellness

Competitive Salary & Benefits 

Hiring Manager: Sarah Hood 

As a Global Medical Science Lead, you are a senior member of the Global Medical Science team. The role incorporates a mix of strategic thinking and planning, hands-on operational activities, and people management. Within the Medical Science function, you will be part of the extended leadership team with responsibilities for people leadership and delivery of the overall Reckitt medical science strategy. Within the Intimate Wellness category, you will act as a subject matter expert in at least some aspects of sexual wellbeing and intimate wellness. 

This role within the Global Medical Science team will lead medical affairs for Durex and KY, focusing on lubricants and sex toys. You will manage a small team to enhance Reckitt’s expertise in sexual health, develop medical insights, support innovation, and ensure compliance with regulations. Additionally, you will engage with key opinion leaders to maintain brand leadership in the intimate wellness category.

Your responsibilities

• Leading a small team of medical scientists, with accountability for consistent, efficient, and timely completion of agreed deliverables.
• Managing personal and career development of direct reports and acting as a role model and coach to colleagues in Medical Sciences and the wider R&D community.
• Driving education and understanding of the intimate wellness category in the wider business, by providing input to internal / external training, acting as an expert consultant to regional colleagues, and supporting the onboarding of new colleagues.      
• Independently representing Medical Sciences as a subject matter expert in cross-functional planning and project meetings.
• Collaboratively proposing, critiquing, and building on ideas that can deliver meaningful science-led, consumer focused innovation as part of the overall category plan.
• Building and executing robust medical strategies to deliver category plans for the relevant brand/project portfolio, including management of team resource and budget.
• Leading and/or overseeing the design and conduct of systematic data reviews and generation of novel evidence as required to enable product and claims innovation and maintain the current portfolio of products.
• Managing delivery of medical aspects of regulated documents. These could include but are not limited to; clinical evaluation reports (CERs), integrated summaries of product or ingredient safety and efficacy, general briefing documents, feasibility assessments for new product development or acquisitions, switch applications, and clinical documents such as investigators’ brochures, evidence briefs and study protocols, subject consent, or assessment forms.
• Supporting the medical science team and marketing colleagues in translating scientific data into commercially relevant consumer claims and scientific and medical content and communication.

The experience we're looking for

• Previous experience working in the medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic or consumer health industry, or experience as a practicing healthcare professional with a good understanding of Medical Affairs in a commercial healthcare setting.
• Experience or knowledge of working specifically with medical device and/or cosmetics regulations in at least one market or region is desirable.
• Demonstrable subject matter expertise in an aspect or aspects of sexual wellbeing or intimate wellness is essential.
• Proven ability to generate, analyse and interpret scientific and clinical data, with knowledge and experience of scientific research methodology. Experience in the design of clinical studies and the regulatory requirements for the conduct of clinical research is desirable.
• Experience in preparing medical or scientific documents. (e.g., published manuscripts, regulated scientific documents, demonstrable experience in medical writing, systematic review, and clinical data reporting or appraisal)
• A commercially minded leader, who can collaborate with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders, preferably with some people management experience.
• Strategic thinker who has built and translated plans into objectives and tasks that delivered tangible results.
• Excellent objective led communication and presentation skills, with the ability to analyse and summarise complex data into a compelling, audience-appropriate, narrative.
• Creative, self-starter, who can work with longer term goals, make, and follow decisions despite significant levels of ambiguity.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, 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. Medical Device

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.