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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 and 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
This is a unique opportunity to work in the Global Reference Standards (GRS) team within Reckitt’s R&D Health Function in Hull.
Reference standards have unique attributes and are developed as part of the analytical control strategy for medicinal products. They play a central role in assuring the quality of medicines for patients during pharmaceutical development and cGMP manufacturing activities. In addition, they are also key to the assessment of dossiers submitted by Reckitt to regulatory authorities in medicinal products license applications, and post-marketing GMP surveillance by regulatory authorities.
Reckitt Reference Standard Quality Systems are designed to line with regulatory guidelines and with this intended use in mind. The Global Reference Standards team has been tasked to meet the needs of Global R&D Health activities and operations including product development, technology transfers and regulatory authority requests. The GRS team adds value to Reckitt by ensuring site-to-site consistency by driving global standards and approaches across global Reckitt operations.
Your responsibilities
- Give support for quantification and supply of qualified analytical reference standards to Global R&D Health activities and operations; This -includes product development, technology transfers and those requested by regulatory authorities for new product registration, license renewal and drug surveillance.
- Work cross-functionally with teams in R&D, Regulatory, Supply, 3rd party laboratories and Quality Control laboratories, to provide qualified reference standards.
- Qualify analytical reference standards using a variety of analytical equipment (HPLC, GC, FTIR etc.).
- Characterise new compounds intended for use as standards for NPD/EDP
- Develop and validate methods required for standard quantification.
- Work to cGMP and internal procedures and pharmacopoeia guidelines.
- Participate in periodic quality audits and author Certificate of Analysis.
- Maintain laboratory equipment and execute laboratory work according to required safety and quality standards, as defined in the company’s SOP’s.
- Document all work in laboratory workbooks as per GMP.
- Stock management and control for reference standards.
- Arrange shipment of ordered reference standards (National and International) and ensure that reference standards classed as dangerous goods, are shipped with strict compliance with regulation for transport by road, air or sea.
- Replying to queries from recipients of reference standards.
The experience we're looking for
- A degree in scientific discipline.
- Working knowledge of method development and validation.
- Experience in the use of analytical techniques.
- Experience within an R&D Heath / pharmaceutical and/or FMCG environment.
- Proficient with common software, including MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Understand reference standard program development process.
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.
