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R&D Analytical Associate

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 R&D Analytical Lead, you will drive innovation projects across the OTC Upper Respiratory category pipeline, ensuring robust analytical strategies and successful delivery from concept through to factory scale up. You will play a key role in managing technical risk, supporting cross functional teams, and bringing high quality, compliant products to market.

Your responsibilities

Own and deliver analytical development within innovation projects from concept to factory scale‑up.
Define and align technical, consumer and product performance criteria for new developments.
Lead analytical feasibility, ensuring milestones are delivered on time and to required standards.
Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans with cross‑functional teams.
Support product scale‑up and technology transfer using structured methodologies (e.g. QbD, DoE).
Contribute to ideation, concept development and competitive benchmarking.
Collaborate with R&D, Marketing and external partners across a global matrix organisation.
Ensure compliance with regulatory, quality and safety standards (cGMP, cGLP, internal guidelines).
Support creation of intellectual property and technical documentation for regulatory submissions.
Translate complex technical insights into clear recommendations for non‑technical stakeholders.
Coach and support development of junior team members and contribute to scientific capability building.

The experience we're looking for

Degree in Science, Engineering, Technology or a related field.
Experience delivering development projects, ideally within an OTC or regulated healthcare environment.
Strong knowledge of analytical product development across multiple formats.
Demonstrated experience in analytical method development, validation and transfer
Confident in performing and troubleshooting chromatographic techniques including GC, HPLC & UHPLC
Ability to utilise analytical data and sound scientific rationale to assess technical risks and define mitigation strategies.
Strong analytical and problem solving mindset with attention to detail and the, with the ability to turn strategy into action.
Experience working in cross functional, matrix organisations.
Ability to influence stakeholders and communicate complex technical topics clearly to cross functional stakeholders to drive product development.
Experience supporting or mentoring team members is an advantage.

The skills for success

Demonstrated Laboratory Competency (primarily HPLC/UHPLC/GC), Strategic thinking, Problem solving, Stakeholder influence, Clear communication, Risk management, Data interpretation, Decision making, Team development, Matrix collaboration, Continuous improvement

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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