R&D Assistant Veet Kingston upon Hull 2024

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 R & D Category Assistant at Reckitt, you will thrive in our fast-paced environment alongside a team of expert scientists dedicated to ensuring product safety and efficacy. Your meticulous attention to detail will be crucial in supporting technical dossier management and analytical lab compliance.

Focusing on the Veet brand - you’ll help drive technical product development on key projects. Working with experts from different teams, you’ll be involved in the formulation development of products from feasibility to launch. Ultimately, you’ll help us create new products, products that solve real problems and improve the lives of millions of people.

Your responsibilities

• Playing a pivotal role in supporting development and transfer project(s). To be responsible for the assigned laboratory activities ensuring all required formulation development, feasibility, analytical testing, manufacturing process validation, are performed on time and to the required standards. This includes Organising and completing product stability studies in compliance with standards of Good Laboratory Practices, keeping accurate records and communicating results as well as managing raw material documentation.
• Support in the creation of technical dossiers such as stability report, claims documentation, consumer testing and manufacturing scale up
• Build technical knowledge of respective areas of the product portfolio/ technologies and leverage this within day-to-day activities.
• Being proactive with technical input at both theoretical and practical levels, using technical skills and knowledge to solve project associated problems.
• 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 (report writing, notebook updates etc.)

The experience were looking for

• Educated to Degree level in a Scientific Discipline
• You have a strong ability to interact with the wider team with good influencing skills
• You are creative, proactive and a problem solver.
• You’re able to communicate effectively with colleagues from different fields.
• You have strong organisational skills and are able to prioritise tasks according to projects needs.
• You are independently minded, with a healthy curiosity and will actively seek out additional information when you need it.
• You have the proven ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary project team, with good partnership skills.
• You have experience of working within a laboratory environment (preferably within the cosmetic or healthcare industry but this is not essential)

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.