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Area Quality Leader

City: Wilson

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

As an Area Quality Leader at Reckitt, you play a critical role in safeguarding the integrity of some of the world’s most trusted health brands. You are the champion of quality on the manufacturing floor—driving compliance, elevating performance, and ensuring every product leaving our Wilson facility meets the highest standards of safety, reliability, and consumer confidence.

In this role, you oversee day‑to‑day Quality System operations across the entire site, spanning warehouse, incoming goods, manufacturing, packaging, and laboratory environments. You shape and execute quality improvement initiatives, embed robust quality systems, and ensure operational teams are fully aligned with regulatory expectations and best practices.

You serve as a hands‑on partner to both Quality and Operations teams, providing real‑time feedback, guiding performance against quality requirements, and leading the remediation of issues through proactive and corrective actions. Your leadership helps prevent problems before they arise—and ensures swift, effective response when they do.

Your responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day Quality System activities across warehouse, incoming goods, manufacturing, packaging, and laboratory areas to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards.
Lead the planning, implementation, and embedding of quality improvement initiatives and system enhancements across the Wilson facility.
Partner closely with Quality and Operations teams to monitor performance against quality requirements and provide timely, actionable feedback.
Guide the remediation of quality issues by driving proactive and reactive CAPA activities that address root causes and strengthen operational reliability.
Support continuous compliance by maintaining robust quality processes, fostering cross-functional alignment, and ensuring quality expectations are met throughout the product lifecycle.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or technical discipline (e.g., Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering).
3–5 years of experience in quality assurance within the pharmaceutical or medical device industry, including work with oral solid dosage manufacturing processes.
Direct experience applying quality management systems, Title 21 CFR requirements, and industry best practices in a regulated manufacturing environment.
Hands‑on experience supporting regulatory audits and working with governmental agencies, external partners, and internal cross‑functional teams.
Practical experience using electronic quality management systems and industry‑standard quality tools such as SPC, Advanced Quality Planning, Control Plans, FMEA, root‑cause analysis, Six Sigma methodologies, and cross‑functional problem‑solving approaches.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership Building, Ability to Challenge the Status Quo, Propose Improvements, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

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.

US salary ranges

USD $85,000.00 - $127,000.00

Hiring range up to $105K

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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.

Nearest Major Market: Raleigh
Nearest Secondary Market: Rocky Mount
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