Senior R&D Associate

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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.

*Our Brands: https://reckitt.com/jp/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89/

About the role

The role is to primarily drive and maintain Reckitt Japan business as a key R&D representative in the responsible area(s).

- Implement R&D activities ranging from net revenue protection (compliance, quality issues, out of stock avoidance, etc), net revenue growth (NPD, EPD, BDI, etc), growth margin improvement, sustainability.

- Interface and communicate with key partners and stakeholders, including (but not limited to) Marketing, Supply, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, external 3rd parties in the global, regional and local levels on a daily basis.

Your responsibilities

• Take a lead of R&D projects in responsible categories and brands and implement them at regional/local level by ensuring all required technical activities are performed on time and to the required internal and external standards and market conditions. Technical activities include (but not limited to) formula development, product prototyping, feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trial, consumer/clinical study preparation, claim substantiation and dossier preparation, etc
• Perform project management as technical project lead (TPL), including prepare a project plan with timeline for all technical activities, play as the key R&D contact for all stakeholders (global and local) involved in the initiative, manage and allocate resources to complete the tasks as per plan, keep a good track of the activities versus the plan, keep the key stakeholders informed about the progress and issues, and manage changes to preserve the commitment.
• Take a role as SPOC (Sing Point of Contact) for Japan business (Health) to identify and address the gaps in project, resource and portfolio management by closely liaising with respective R&D functions based regionally and globally.  
• Collaborate with local commercial organizations in relation to consumer complaints and quality issues, competitor challenges and legal / regulatory inquiries concerning technical matters relating to products marketed within the country and/or region.
• Collaborate with Supply function regarding technology and product expertise, for production start-up and scale-up, quality and process improvements and cost savings projects.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing organizations (local / regional) to provide technical expertise and required business support to ideation, evaluation and execution of commercial initiatives and projects
• Ensure and maintain all the required documentations along with global and local quality management system (QMS) and standard operating procedures (SOPs). Be a subject matter expertize (SME) in the responsible projects/areas for internal and external audits.
• Provide support and coach to team to develop them to be future leadership and/or successor of the organization by placing proper career development plan, objectives and devel

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum five-year R&D experience with a proven track record of delivery
• Experience of working in the FMCG industry (personal care, home care categories) is preferred
• Experience of working in a Healthcare environment with a basic Regulatory knowledge (USP, EurP, JP, etc.) is plus
• Proven project management skill with a consistent ownership under pressure
• Experience of problem solving by showing logical thinking
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience of influencing others
• Experience of working in global companies with global colleagues/stakeholders on a regular basis
• People management and team development experience

The skills for success

Leadership, influencing, motivational and interpersonal skills.

• Capable of building strong working relationships and partnerships with various stakeholders
• Motivating teams to deliver outstanding results to outperform.
• Strong communication and negotiating skills

Analytical skills

• Ability to anticipate, plan and realise significant projects involving multiple technical and scientific hurdles.
• Ability to perform solid logical thinking into action.

Intellectual curiosity

• Appetite for exploring new and previously uncharted territories and challenges.
• Openness to change and ability to think out of the box and execute.

Career aspiration

• Appetite for developing self by ensuring self-awareness, developing plan and implementing actions to aim at career goal.
• Ability to implement the same for team development.

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.