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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.
Research development
In R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.
About the role
New Growth Platforms is a start-up within the Hygiene BU, created with the objective to provide commercial products under the Reckitt Pro Solutions™ brand, as part of Global Business Solutions (GBS), and to rollout our consumer products to the under-served or unserved, as part of the Global Expansion Market (GEM).
As a Junior Associate in New Growth Platforms, you will be responsible for leading and advising on the technical aspect of products within the GEM Americas + Caribbean business.
You will support in the delivery of key projects and initiatives under the New Growth Platforms (NGP), growing your skills and building lasting relationships with world-renowned brands.
Your responsibilities
- Lead the compilation of technical data packages and complete testing to support new claims.
- Be a technical expert in projects, providing insight and making jargon digestible for non-technical colleagues.
- Define, evaluate and take balanced risks within your projects.
- Be the R&D lead on NGP initiatives, working as part of cross-functional NGP team to deliver exciting key projects (rollouts, new claims, demos, etc).
- Liaise with Marketing and Sales to expand your knowledge of their teams, as key internal collaborators.
- Join the teams at global functions as a product expert; as a Reckitt Pro Solutions™ subject specialist you will gain expertise in targeted hygiene programme, advising on protocols and cleaning industry best practises
The experience we're looking for
- A degree in a scientific field, coupled with some industry experience in an R&D function.
- Capability to manage projects, large and small, with diligence and efficiency.
- Strong communication skills, capable of providing advice, best practise guidance and effective cross-cultural communications.
- Experience working under pressure, prioritising quality while delivering on deadlines.
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.