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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
As a R&D Lab based Assistant at Reckitt, this role is fast-paced and requires a high-performing scientist with an eye for technical detail to join an R&D team supporting across compliance testing in an analytical lab and authoring technical documentation to support registrations. you are on the frontline of transforming ideas into reality.
Your responsibilities
- Analytical chemistry – Own and execute testing for stability studies in support of existing products currently on market globally. Be responsible for data processing, interpretation and report writing. There is also potential for to be involved in analytical method development and validation.
- Technical dossier – Author technical documents relating to chemistry, manufacturing and controls to support regulatory submissions across a multitude of products in the global market.
- Formulation and raw material management – There is the 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 Wellness laboratory area.
The experience were looking for
- A good degree in a relevant scientific discipline
- Ideally, but not essential, would be previous experience / understanding of Good Manufacturing and Laboratory Practices (GMP, GLP)
- Achievement - Results orientated, dynamic and self-motivated with an ability to evaluate and take calculated risks
- Ability to think strategically, develop tactics and transform ideas into reality so projects are delivered
- Partnership and Collaboration - Excellent communication skills and the ability to positively interact and communicate within a diverse team
- Entrepreneurial - Innovative approach, intellectual curiosity and ability to think outside the box to generate ideas for new and efficient ways of working
- Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising quality and delivery
The skills for success
Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, 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, Analytical, Science.
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.
