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Manager, Consumer Safety Selfcare

City: Shanghai

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

• The Manager of Consumer Safety, China is part of the Regulatory and Safety function (RAS) within R&D and will serve as a Safety (Toxicology) leader within RAS and for key stakeholders within Reckitt, with regards to the assessment of toxicology and safety trends that may impact Reckitt products in China.
• The role is purposed to focus specifically on providing management support to our R&D innovation pipeline intended for market in China. This role will also have global responsibilities and provide management support to teams of toxicologists/safety assessors whilst supporting the wider Consumer Safety functions in RAS in all aspects of safety assessment.
• The Manager will ensure toxicological and risk assessment input to support the product development of Reckitt projects and brands marketed in China such as Durex, Dettol and Move Free.
• The Manager will proactively work alongside multidisciplinary functions to contribute to the development of safe sustainable Reckitt Products throughout their product development lifecycle.
• To succeed within this role, you will be able to effectively communicate safety issues and concerns impacting Reckitt innovation products marketed in China. This will include representation within Reckitt RAS pods.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring the toxicological input to products intended for market in China. Working as a team with other managers and toxicologists to ensure all Reckitt products developed for the China market meet local requirements and company standards.
• Serve as a point of contact for the Consumer Safety team to ensure the escalation of issues to the appropriate project representative in the Global Consumer Safety Department.
• Ensure any nonclinical testing (to include animal testing) is conducted in full compliance with the Reckitt Corporate office and may involve supporting external audit visits to Contract Research Organisations.
• To be part of the management team within the RAS Department, to provide appropriate governance and oversight to ensure delivery of timely, high quality safety output from your team.
• To ensure that the Company safety standards are met for all new (and existing) company products
• To be a credible subject matter expert within the safety organisation with strong business acumen and an in-depth technical knowledge of consumer healthcare products
• As a manager, you enjoy working with and building teams and sharing your knowledge to improve results, but are also comfortable having more difficult conversations, when required.
• To follow scientific and regulatory development in the field of product safety by active participation in relevant external bodies and meetings as appropriate to pro-actively address and implement new knowledge and standards particularly those specific for China
• To contribute actively to the development and training of policies, guidelines and working instructions to colleagues both within the Global team and with specific focus on R&D China.

The experience we're looking for

• BSc with preferably a higher qualification in toxicology or related discipline. A local Toxicology certification or affiliation with an industry association will be a plus.
• Strong experience in serving as a regulatory toxicologist and/or safety representative with experience in consumer product safety assessment
• You will need to display excellent communication skills in both verbal and written forms, good business acumen and interpersonal skills, to deliver the appropriate safety expertise
• Strong knowledge and understanding of nonclinical drug development requirements from a safety and regulatory toxicology perspective, with an appreciation and understanding of the development of Consumer products, particularly China market requirements
• Experienced in technical leadership with proven ability to lead and motivate others
• Proven experience of leadership and communication in an environment of creativity and innovation
• Working knowledge of the principles of generating safety language labelling

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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