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R&D PDM Associate

City: Samut Prakan

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

This role sits within the R&D PDM organisation and typically reports to an R&D PDM Senior Associate. It is designed to support the delivery of design work, risk management, and medical-device compliance activities within R&D PDM. While the primary responsibilities are outlined below, the role may also include additional tasks depending on organisational needs:

Maintaining and updating the Design History Files for the IW portfolio during base-business projects.
Coordinating and driving post‑launch reviews according to the agreed schedule.
Providing subject‑matter expertise in medical devices to the wider R&D organisation and the business.
Contributing to and executing project plans and other operational tools to ensure smooth delivery of base‑business projects.
Identifying and solving problems, and determining best practices within medical‑device projects.
Supporting the achievement and reporting of business KPIs and metrics relevant to the role

Your responsibilities

Plan, manage, and deliver project and post‑market activities to meet agreed timelines and milestones.
Provide medical‑device subject‑matter expertise to the R&D PDM team and the wider R&D organisation.
Lead a small team to ensure all deliverables meet required standards.
Support ongoing improvements in quality and efficiency across projects.
Contribute to defining functional best practices and strategy within relevant areas.
Ensure all product development and maintenance activities are completed according to agreed timelines, and promptly communicate any risks or issues to the line manager.
Work with cross‑functional internal and external teams to ensure technical milestones are achieved.
Ensure all required product specifications and internal documentation are complete, current, and fully approved prior to implementation.
Demonstrate a strong consumer mindset by understanding behaviours across different regions and applying these insights to product design and development.
Lead the preparation, approval, and distribution of design‑control and risk‑management documentation throughout the product development lifecycle.
Ensure all assigned activities comply with legislative, health, safety, and environmental requirements.
Support team operations, including shared activities such as audit preparation.
Assist the Senior Associate in measuring, tracking, and reporting team KPIs to senior management

The experience we're looking for

Minimum of an undergraduate degree in a scientific field relevant to the product technologies within the portfolio.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in either healthcare/FMCG product development or in the medical‑device industry, with focus on design control, risk management, or quality management.
Experience in line management is preferred but not essential.
- Knowledge or experience in the following areas is preferred:
- ISO 13485 – Quality management systems for medical devices, especially product realisation.
- ISO 14971 – Risk management for medical devices, or other risk‑management methodologies (e.g., FMEA).
- BS EN 62366 – Usability engineering for medical devices.
- Design controls.

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.

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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