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Category Quality Senior Associate - Cleaners

City:  Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Essential Home

•    Essential Home is an exciting, agile and entrepreneurial business, truly focused upon delivering great results and value creation.
•    We ‘Make a House Your Home’, through trusted products that transform people’s homes into clean, fresh and inviting spaces. 
•    Each day, we strive to make the highest quality air care, laundry, surface and pest products for our customers.

About the role

As Category Quality Senior Associate – Cleaners, you will play a key role in driving Quality and Compliance excellence within the Powerbrand CDO. You’ll be directly responsible for embedding quality throughout the innovation process in category-led development.

You’ll ensure that all products are developed in full compliance with regulatory and safety requirements, internal corporate standards, and the R&D Quality Management System (QMS). Working closely with the R&D team, you’ll provide hands-on support and training to ensure quality is at the heart of every development stage.

Additionally, you’ll contribute to the development of site KPIs and quality metrics, helping to drive continuous improvement and ensure that quality is not just a checkpoint, but a core value in everything we do.

 

Your responsibilities

 

  • Provide the overall leadership in the areas of quality throughout the development of new and existing products through the category development organisation. 
  • Responsible for ensuring Category teams work within the requirements of the company Global Quality Standards, Technical Manuals and requisite legislation to meet quality requirements. 
  • Represent the Category Quality viewpoint to Marketing and R&D, with links to other applicable parts of the business, including Supply, Regulatory, Safety. Provide communication to relevant management and senior stakeholders. 
  • Work with the Category teams to implement quality strategies based on prevention during development, not inspection during manufacture 
  • Identify, prioritise, and drive quality improvements within the Category, and lead the communication on those internally/externally as appropriate. 
  • Partner with Consumer Relations to build feedback into monthly reports and follow up with Category teams on improvement work from consumer trends. Where necessary lead Quality Improvement Programs from the learnings. 

The experience we're looking for

  • Degree in science, quality, or engineering discipline. 
  • 3+ years experience in product innovation and/or quality assurance. 
  • 2+ years experience in QMS/ Compliance 
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.  
  • Experienced auditor, with ability to act as Lead Auditor within the Organization 
  • Experience with quality tools such as: SPC, control plans, FMEA, root cause analysis, and other Lean and Six Sigma tools (green belt desirable) 
  • Ability to deal confidently and effectively with key business partners and suppliers 
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills 
  • Experience with management and development of people, with a preference for experience in a role with direct reports and working with senior managers. 
  • Strong intellectual curiosity, ability to innovate and challenge the status quo. 

The skills for success

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

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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