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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
As an Assistant at Reckitt, you are on the frontline of transforming ideas into reality. Your scientific talent will be crucial in driving our operations across various pillars, ensuring that our products not only meet but exceed our rigorous standards. Your work will contribute to the resilience and advancement of our ambitious portfolio, within an environment that values growth and learning.
Your responsibilities
- Support in the creation of technical dossiers such as stability report, claims documentation, and manufacturing trials. Relating to medicinal product dossiers, medical device technical files and cosmetic product information files to support regulatory licence variations across a multitude of products in the global market.
- Build technical knowledge of respective areas of the product portfolio/ technologies and leverage this within day-to-day activities.
- Responsible for the assigned laboratory activities in compliance with standards of Good Laboratory Practices, keeping accurate records and in conformance with all relevant safety and quality requirements. Collaborate and be responsible for data processing, interpretation and report writing. Own and execute testing for stability studies in support of existing products currently on market globally.
- Formulation and raw material management – Potential to be trained and apply your new knowledge and skills to facilitate with the support of formulation activities in the team and maintain required documentation for control and use of raw materials within the formulation laboratory.
- Take ownership of R&D actions ensuring day to day functional work associated with specified actions is implemented and delivery of project specific objectives to agreed timelines.
- Contribute towards continuous improvement of R&D laboratory procedures and best practices.
- Work with other teams globally across R&D, supply, quality and regulatory to ensure compliance projects are delivered on time and to a high quality, and any issues highlighted to key stakeholders in a timely manner.
The experience we're looking for
- Degree Qualified in a Scientific discipline. Preferably Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Results orientated, dynamic and self-motivated with an ability to evaluate and take calculated risks.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills and the ability to positively interact and communicate within a diverse team.
- Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising quality and delivery.
- Self-starter and motivated to learn. The role is fast-paced, and the candidate must be comfortable with changing priorities based on business needs.
The skills for success
Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.
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.
