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R&D PDM Assistant

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

R&D PDM Assistant is 1st level of technical project leader role to lead product development / maintenance and compliance activities on projects in one or more platforms of the Durex portfolio. The role is ensuring the delivery for independent project activities and managing cross function team (supply, quality, regulatory) as well as R&D internal stakeholders.

Involves responsible for managing diverse development activities in the medium to long term to protect base business, implementation of product improvement and defence of net revenue through supply initiatives and compliance projects. The role needs to manage all given tasks independently and ensuring all key milestones as per committed timeline through wider cross functional supports.

The role needs to ensure the quality compliance against all given internal and external quality requirements along with project delivery and needs to highlight any issues / risks to relevant level of stakeholders and functions.

The role also requires strong technical ownership and leadership to manage medium to high complex technical challenges from given net revenue protects, gross margin improvement or compliance projects. Work scope is not limited to manage projects within Reckitt’s inhouse manufacturing site and involves 3rd party manufacturing sites for materials and products.

Your responsibilities

General:

Ensure all technical aspects of the product development, maintenance and roll out are carried out as per the agreed timings, with any issues or risks clearly highlighted to line manager in a timely manner.
Manage own projects as well as deliver projects through direct reporting team. Need to give guidance where it requires.
Ensure all relevant product specifications and internal documentation is in place and fully approved prior to full production start-up.
To be quality mined to manage projects and lead trials on lab scale, pilot scale and commercial scale trials. Should try to optimize process without compromising a quality of products and keep consistency across different projects.
Responsible for the compilation, review, approval and circulation of technical reports throughout the lifecycle of products and projects.
All assigned development activity must conform to legislative, health & safety and environmental requirements.
Resourcefulness to the team and other function and open mind to listen others.
Keep individual records and collaborate with internal/external partners to meet the goal of individual and team.

Quality:

Be aware, accountable and follow GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) rules & regulations.
Enforce quality mind & awareness for working in area by following documented procedures & follow good documentation practice.
Be compliance to requirements of ISO13485 and other relevant regulatory requirements as required based on role & function responsibility.
Always think “Quality is my responsibility”.

Safety, Health & Environment:

Be aware, accountable for safety, health and environment in workplace all time to ensure free-accident and good environment area of working.
Follow which support the safety, health and environment regulations, company policies by working safely, reporting unsafe condition / unsafe action / near miss accident to supervisor as well as suggest for any improvement.
Be compliance to requirements of ISO14001, ISO45001, other relevant EHS regulatory and company EHS requirements as required based on role & function responsibility.
Always think "Safety, Health and Environmental is my responsibility".

The experience we're looking for

Minimum bachelor’s degree on Chemical Engineer / Science, Polymer Engineer / Science, Pharmacy or any relevant Technical background in preferred.
Ability to work or experience in laboratory, pilot or commercial production area
A minimum of 1-2 years working experience in product / process technology of personal or pharmaceutical or medical devices.
Good communication of written and spoken in English
Results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with solid planning and organisational capabilities.
Open mind to challenge status quo and challenge new things
Team player

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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