We are Reckitt
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 Research and Development, we house highly skilled talents including Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and fearless innovation to develop and enhance our 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 Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.
About The Role
This role leads the development and delivery of innovation pipelines within a category, owning projects from concept through scale-up by ensuring strong technical, consumer, and analytical foundations while managing risks and timelines. It partners cross‑functionally (R&D, marketing, external teams) to define product attributes, ensure regulatory and quality compliance, and drive data‑led decision making.
Your responsibilities
* Takes ownership of allocated projects within the category innovation pipeline, working in close partnership with R&D capability teams to ensure the projects have:
o Strong technical, consumer and or medical insights
o Consumer and product performance success criteria (PDC)
o Aligned analytical development milestones with an understanding of technical risk throughout the development route.
o R&D analytical knowledge and resources needed to succeed
* Supports technical seeding of the innovation pipeline through:
o Supporting ideation and concept development
o Proactive partnership with R&D Category, R&D capability, Outside Innovation & Science and Technology teams (e.g. Smart Release)
o Supporting competitive intelligence & benchmarking to identify threats and opportunities
* Supports the analytical feasibility stage of product development cycle for all agreed projects through to factory scale up, working with the R&D matrix organisation to ensure:
o Analytical Product Development milestones delivered to agreed timelines and suitable standards
o Technical risks on projects understood and, with analytical lead, appropriate mitigation actions agreed and reviewed with the cross‑functional team
o Factory scale‑up and Technology Transfer using a QbD/DoE approach
o Due diligence on third‑party products completed with alignment from the cross‑functional teams
* Ensure compliance with regulations, quality and health and safety requirements for all analytical activities and team members
* Support creation of new ownable Intellectual Property within the category
Technical leadership within the cross functional matrix
* Support the cross functional teams to deliver the allocated projects:
o From TT0 through to TT2, collaborate with Cat. R&D Formulation to define the desired product attributes (QTPP etc.) for robust product development and in partnership with cross‑functional team (inc. marketing) and build and justify the product development specifications
o Ensure all internal and ICH guidelines, cGMP, cGDP and cGLP requirements are met
o Support decision making on technical path forward, balancing risk vs speed vs CoS
o Ensure all products developed in line with Reckitt global quality manuals
o Support the cross functional teams to build technical risk assessment and mitigation plans for R&D manager sign off
* Proactive involvement in relevant cross functional initiatives
Responsible for team development
Supports development within the team of technical category knowledge.
The experience we're looking for
* Knowledge of OTC analytical product development.
* Understanding of the approach to define, evaluate and communicate technical risk.
* Knowledge of Technology Transfer using a QbD approach.
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.
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