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Global Medical Affairs Associate - Lower GI

City: Kingston upon Hull

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

As an Associate in Category Medical Affairs, you will harness your passion for healthcare and life sciences to make a real impact on our products and consumers. This role provides an incredible opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams, enhance your professional breadth in the industry, and develop skills pivotal to your growth. Step into a vibrant cross-functional environment where your contribution is not just valued but is instrumental in shaping a healthier future for everyone.

Your responsibilities

- Work as part of a small team of medical scientists, with responsibilty for consistent, efficient, and timely completion of agreed deliverables.

- Managing personal and career development in Medical Sciences and the wider R&D community.

- Supporting the wider team in delivery of robust medical strategies to deliver category plans for the relevant brand/project portfolio

- Support the wider MS team in driving education and understanding of the lower GI category in the wider business, by providing support to internal / external training, acting as a point of contact to regional colleagues where appropriate

- Representing Medical Sciences as a point of contact in cross-functional planning and project meetings.

- Collaboratively building on ideas that can deliver meaningful science-led, consumer focused innovation as part of the overall category plan.

- Delivering, with the support of more senior team members, with 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.

- Supporting in the delivery of medical aspects of regulated documents. These could include but are not limited to; medicinal dossiers, 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.

- Supporting in the delivery of scientific communications consistent with the category strategy, including peer reviewed papers and conference abstracts.

- Supporting in the building and maintenance of effective relationships with relevant external stakeholder groups and key opinion leaders to enhance the company's knowledge base and enable independent advisory and advocacy work, such as running steering group or advisory board meetings.

- Contributing to the continuous improvement of functional excellence and productivity programs within Medical Sciences

- Working closely with the lower GI medical science leadership team to ensure standards of medical & clinical governance are upheld across the organization

The experience we're looking for

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent associated with medical or life sciences.

- Subject matter training (or experience-based expertise) in an aspect or aspects of lower GI

- Postgraduate qualification, preferably PhD.

- Advanced professional qualifications.

- Experience working in the medical, pharmaceutical or consumer health industry with a good understanding of Medical Affairs in a commercial healthcare setting

- Basic - intermediate subject matter expertise in an aspect or aspects of lower GI is required with an ability to apply this knowledge to support product and claims innovation.

- Basic understanding of product clinical evaluation, meeting the regulations for medicines, medical devices and other classifications where appropriate

- Basic understanding in supporting existing or novel medicines, medical devices, or other product classifications for multiple geographical regions.

- Basic understanding of drafting internal reports and engaging with external partners and KOLs

- Basic understanding of strategic plan development, that has delivered objectives, measurable results or outcomes.

- Basic understanding working with switch and the EU Medicines and medical device regulation and MDCG guidance.

- Basic to intermediate understanding of scientific expertise to drive commercially relevant initiatives or innovation.

- Basic understanding of how to collaborate with the wider cross functional team to generate, critically appraise and interpret scientific and clinical data, with basic to intermediate understanding of scientific research methodology.

- Basic understanding of the design of clinical studies and the regulatory requirements for the conduct of clinical research is desirable.

- Basic understanding of the processes in preparing, reviewing and editing medical or scientific documents.

- Basic understanding in medical writing, systematic review, and clinical data reporting or appraisal) preparing medical or scientific documents.

- Basic understanding of how to generate, analyse and interpret scientific and clinical data, with basic knowledge of scientific research methodology and experience in study design and regulatory requirements for the conduct of clinical research.

- Advanced /Profound user knowledge of all standard IS applications (MS-Office etc).

- Experience in new product development, preferably for multiple geographical regions.

A commercially curious team member, who can collaborate with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders, preferably with some people management experience.

Curious thinker who can understand build and translate plans into, objectives and tasks that deliver tangible results to defined timelines and budgets.

Proactive, self-starter, who can work with longer term goals and, make and follow decisions despite significant levels of ambiguity.

Objective led communication and presentation skills, with the ability to analyse and summarise complex data into a compelling, audience-appropriate, narrative.

Resilient, open to challenge and willing to challenge others for the good of a shared goal.

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, 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.

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