Raw Material Specialist - ASEAN (1-year contract)
City:
West Singapore
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.
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 R&D Raw Materials Specialist is responsible for the creation, revision and approval of raw material specifications used in Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) sites.
- As R&D Raw Materials Specialist you will be ensuring application of internal and external requirements in our Raw Material Specifications and will work in close collaboration with key functional content contributors.
- You will work as part of a cross-functional team with vast experience in R&D, Quality & Food Safety, Procurement, Regulatory, Supply Chain management and Manufacturing in the Nutrition business. You will work in an environment that is high-paced, dynamic and complex with various functional disciplines located at different sites.
- You are results focused and have a continuous improvement mindset. You have strong analytical and organizational skills and communicate effectively with colleagues from different fields.
Your responsibilities
- Create Raw Material Specifications in OPTIVA system for new and existing Raw Materials
- Assure OPTIVA users deliver upon task based on defined processes. Strive for right first-time data quality.
- Provide draft specification for cross-functional Internal Review and coordinate alignment
- Facilitate alignment on specification parameters with suppliers
- Coordinate specification external report approval and obtain report signed by supplier(s)
- Verify signed specification reports and Vendor documentation are uploaded in OPTIVA
- Build and maintain effective working relationship with internal stakeholders
- Build and maintain effective working relationship with suppliers
- Apply standardized approach on specification management – one way of working across different regions
- Support delivering on the team’s KPIs, preparing progress reports to key stakeholders
- Apply Continuous Improvement on specification process and ways of working
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree (Food Science preferable)
- Project management experience
- Good communication skill
- Proficient in Optiva, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft TEAMS
- Good presentation skills
The skills for success
Project Management, Communication skill, Presentation skill
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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