R&D Associate, Essential Home

Essential Home

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.

About the role

As an R&D Associate at Essential Home (EH), you will support and deliver successful projects from concept creation, technical development to launch. This is a fast paced and dynamic role to manage and implement the assigned technical aspects of projects with exposure to key stakeholders, partners and other functions within RB. In this role the ownership and leadership skills are strongly required, together with a strong technical knowledge.  
 

Your responsibilities

• To deliver assigned projects and activities for the introduction of new development projects and enhancement of existing products in line with the defined category strategy.
• Conduct analytical chemistry testing, data processing and report generation for stability studies of products globally.
• Strong communication skills with keg stakeholders (marketing, supply, SQRC etc).
• Be able to develop comprehensive testing plans depending on the keg priorities
• Strong risk awareness / problem solving skills together with knowledge of how to overcome obstacles bg getting support from others (i.e. experts).
• Work closely with innovation and consumer science team, to ensure that projects and technologies are transferred seamlessly and supported to become successful market launches.
• To support format and understand the keg consumer needs for the support of the product innovation pipeline.
• To work on next generation products and new opportunities for existing products.
• To be accountable for liaison with appropriate technical development and supply chain personnel: to ensure completion of all activities to plan and successful handover to supply and launch to the market.
• Good understanding of the operating model.
• Ensure all paperwork and keg documentation is in placed based on the corresponding 5OPs.
• Responsible for individual team and the mentorship/coaching of R&D assistant.

The experience we're looking for

• Be able to understand the key consumer needs and turn them into viable product concepts through leveraging new or existing technologies, scientific principles or methods.
• Project management understanding to allow timeline building based on the operating model and keg business stage gates.
• Understanding of the qualification requirements of R&D validation & production success criteria.
• Ability to interpret results from lab tests through statistical analysis of testing data
• Good negotiating and interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills both written and oral in English and good presentation skills
• Capability to manage projects, large and small, with diligence and efficiency.

The skills for success

R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry.

​Research & Development​

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.

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.