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Scientific Senior Associate

City: Milano

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 a Scientific Senior Associate, you will play a key role in supporting the Italian Healthcare business by providing high‑level scientific expertise and medical guidance across OTC and Medical Devices product categories. As a trusted partner to the commercial teams, you will contribute to the development and execution of the medical strategy, ensure the scientific accuracy of claims and materials, and support stakeholder engagement activities. You will be responsible for guaranteeing that all scientific content, claims and communications are accurate, compliant and aligned with the latest clinical evidence. A core part of the role is keeping scientific and clinical knowledge constantly updated and ensuring that internal teams receive accurate and relevant medical insights.

Your responsibilities

Scientific updating & training: Maintain an advanced and continuously updated knowledge of clinical evidence, product literature, therapeutic areas and guidelines, and deliver high‑quality scientific and product training to sales/detailing representatives, and other internal stakeholders.
Scientific support to the field: Provide ongoing scientific support through regular trainings and accompaniment of detailing representatives, ensuring accurate scientific communication and high‑quality product detailing.
Promotional materials, claims & medical strategy: Contribute strategically to medical and promotional strategy by supporting the development, review and approval of promotional materials and claims, providing expert medical input to ensure scientific robustness, accuracy, balance, evidence‑based content and competitive defensibility, in line with brand objectives
Medical compliance & procedures: Guarantee medical accuracy, compliance and consistency across all scientific content and communications, and contribute to the development and optimization of medical procedures, documentation, and internal processes.
Congress & scientific events: Support the planning, coordination and compliant execution of congresses, sponsored events and scientific meetings, representing the medical function and managing all medical‑related activities on site.
Medical insights & stakeholder engagement: Monitor clinical data, medical literature and scientific trends, provide timely medical responses and insights to internal and external stakeholders, and build effective relationships with KOLs and healthcare organizations.

The experience we're looking for

- At least 5 years of experience in a medical or scientific role, demonstrating solid expertise across all relevant medical, scientific and compliance‑related areas
- Ability to work autonomously, showing leadership and excellence in execution.
- Proven communication skills, able to manage relationships with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- A record of strategic project management, delivering results and adapting to new information and challenges.

- Fluency in Italian and English, both written and spoken

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, 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.

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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