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R&D Analytical Assistant

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

This role leads the development and delivery of innovation pipelines within a category, owning projects from concept through scale-up by ensuring strong technical, consumer, and analytical foundations while managing risks and timelines. It partners cross‑functionally (R&D, marketing, external teams) to define product attributes, ensure regulatory and quality compliance, and drive data‑led decision making.

Your responsibilities

Creation, development and delivery of category pipeline(s)

Takes ownership of allocated projects within the of the category innovation pipeline, working in close partnership with R&D capability teams, ensuring the projects have:
- strong technical, consumer and or medical insights
- Consumer and product performance success criteria (PDC)
- Aligned analytical development milestone with an understanding of technical risk throughout the development route.
- R&D analytical knowledge and resources needed to succeed

Supports technical seeding of the innovation pipeline though:
- Supporting ideation and concept development
- Proactive partnership with R&D Category, R&D capability, Outside Innovation & Science and Technology teams (e.g. Smart Release).
- Supporting competitive intelligence & benchmarking in order to identify threats and opportunities
Supports the analytical feasibility stage of product development cycle for all agreed projects through to factory scale up working with the R&D matrix organisation to ensure:
- Analytical Product Development milestones are delivered to agreed timelines and to suitable standards.
- technical risks on projects are understood and working with analytical lead appropriate mitigation actions agreed and reviewed with the cross functional team.
- Factory scale-up and Technology Transfer using a QbD/DoE approach
- Due diligence on 3rd party products is completed with alignment from the cross functional teams
Ensure compliance with regulations, quality and health and safety requirements for all analytical activities and team members
Support creation of new ownable Intellectual Property within the category

Technical leadership within the cross functional matrix

Support the cross functional teams to deliver the allocated projects:

From TT0 through to TT2, collaborate with Cat. R&D Formulation in defining the desired product attributes (QTPP etc.) for robust product development and in partnership with cross-functional team (inc. marketing) and building and justifying the product development specifications
Ensuring all internal and ICH guidelines, cGMP, cGDP and cGLP requirements are met.
Support decision making on technical path forward, balancing risk vs speed vs CoS
Ensure all products are developed in line with Reckitt global quality manuals.
Support the cross functional teams to build technical risk assessment and mitigation plans for R&D manager sign off

Proactive involvement in relevant cross functional initiatives

Responsible for team development

Supports the development within the team of technical category knowledge.

The experience we're looking for

Knowledge of OTC analytical product development.
Understanding of the approach to define, evaluate and communicate technical risk.
Knowledge of Technology Transfer using a QbD approach.

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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