Global Category Medical Affairs Manager, IW

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 is integrated within the Intimate Wellness Global Category Medical Affairs team, responsible for medical science and evidence generation activities during the development and throughout the entire life cycle of Reckitt products.

The post-holder is responsible for all relevant medical science team activities under the guidance of the Global Category Medical Affairs Lead, working with the brand team to drive commercial success by generating and applying medical insights to deliver high quality evidence that results in safe, efficacious and meaningful innovation to consumers. 

• Drive scientific and medical advancement and knowledge within therapeutic area.

• Manage a team of medical scientists so as to ensure delivery of adequate product and project support including medical affairs and oversight of dossier writing
• Assist in the development, and drive execution of the medical and evidence strategies for assigned category area.

• Proactively support cross-functional team to deliver innovative consumer solutions; appropriate business opportunities to drive competitive advantage across the therapeutic area.

• Act as the product expert and develop in-depth understanding of the literature and current medical opinion in the relevant category area.

• Support ideation, substantiation, and defence of claims, as well as challenges against competitors' claims.

Your responsibilities

The position is accountable to the GMS Lead and finally to the CMO, working closely with others as part of the matrix. The role interacts as appropriate with other internal functions including Safety, Quality, Regulatory and Compliance (SQRC), Clinical, R&D, Marketing, Medical Marketing etc. The role also interacts with external partners including key opinion leaders.

Specific tasks and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Independently represent the Medical Science team and act as medical expert for area in cross-functional project meetings
• Manage the delivery of activities, and contribute to the career progression, of a Medical Science team
• Conduct a fair-balanced assessment of efficacy and safety data and provide advice on the best approach to drive brand growth
• Drive education and understanding of the literature, new clinical data and current medical opinion on category topics for RB products and competitors
• Partner with Medical Science team to provide strategic medical input in category development leading brand science for product innovation and claims

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably associated to healthcare or the life sciences (e.g. basic science, pharmacy, nursing or medical) is required
• Postgraduate qualifications preferred; relevant post-graduate experience is a plus
• Experience in the medical and pharmaceutical / consumer health industry knowledge/ Medical Affairs arena is required
• Experience in systematic searches, reviewing scientific data, and preparing medical or scientific documents (e.g. post graduate experience in relevant science, publications and experience in medical writing, systematic review and clinical data appraisal) to a high standard is desirable
• Knowledge of research methodology, information management and regulatory requirements and an understanding of healthcare compliance and guidelines is desirable. Proven ability to generate, analyze and interpret scientific and clinical data is required.
• Previous experience of work in New Product Development, or experience of clinical development, with examples of successful product launches is highly desirable

• Ability to manage multiple projects and products simultaneously to ensure timely, on-target and within budget accomplishment of tasks

• Demonstrated matrix management in previous roles

The skills for success

The Candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

 

• Leadership capability – demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams and develop and mentor individuals and allocate resource strategically and according to the portfolio priorities.
• Strategic Thinking – maintains competitive advantage by carefully considering the issues and competing priorities within a situation, program or portfolio and then developing a strategy that includes the strategic application of available principles, tools and systems.
• Business Acumen – Understands the implications of decisions related to human, financial, material and information resources, from a business perspective and uses this knowledge to plan, implement and manage clinical research within R&D.
• Project Management – Demonstrates the discipline of risk-based planning, organising and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives in accordance with defined quality and time-based metrics.

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.