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Research & Development Graduate

City:  Pretoria

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 Graduate  at Reckitt, you will thrive in our fast-paced environment alongside a team of expert scientists dedicated to ensuring product safety and efficacy. Your meticulous attention to detail will be crucial in supporting technical dossier management and analytical lab compliance.

Your responsibilities

  • Prepare and manage regulatory and technical documentation for licence variations, supporting global R&D activities with accurate scientific data and market compliance.
  • Conduct analytical chemistry testing, stability studies, data analysis, and reporting, ensuring adherence to SOP, ISO, GLP, safety, and good laboratory practices.
  • Support and contribute to formulation development, raw material management, and low‑risk R&D projects, ensuring feasibility, validation, stability testing, industrial trials, and dossier preparation are completed on time.
  • Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and external partners, including competitive product performance evaluations, to drive successful R&D outcomes, particularly within gastrointestinal products.
  • Ensure effective laboratory operations through accurate record‑keeping, equipment maintenance, inventory management, and delivery of projects in full, on time, and to required quality standards.

The experience we're looking for

  • Are you a recent graduate of bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline with Honors or Masters, PHD (2024 onwards)
  • Have 0-2 years work experience in FMCG 
  • Demonstrated ability to manage projects of varying complexity efficiently, with strong attention to detail and quality.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of providing sound advice and best‑practice guidance within technical environments.
  • Innovative, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain high scientific standards.
  • Are you able to commit to a minimum duration of 24 Months.

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.

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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