City: Kingston upon Hull
With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.
With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang and Calgon, this is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, offering a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.
Research & Development
In Research and Development, we have 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 out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and 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 of the highest quality.
The size of our organisation means you can learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving 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 organisation.
About the role
As an R&D Assistant, you will thrive in a 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. This is a fast-paced and dynamic role to assist and drive implementing assigned delivery projects and initiatives from proof of principle feasibility to successful launch into market. In this role, ownership, agility to learn and a strong scientific background are strongly required.
Your responsibilities
* Assume ownership for R&D projects by implementing formulation/device feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trials and dossier preparation, ensuring they are performed on time and to the required internal and external standards and market conditions
* Maintain good communication with Marketing, Supply and other functions to accomplish objectives
* Knowledgeable with basic laboratory techniques for working at the bench
* Understand the Product Development Process within the team
* Read, understand and apply SOP/GLP protocols with regard to:
o Proper operation, standardization & maintenance of lab equipment
o Maintaining accurate laboratory notebooks
o Following Safety and Good Housekeeping requirements
o Ensuring that all activities conform to legislative, Health and Safety and Environmental requirements, including the adoption and tracking of laboratory best practices
* Able to manage implementation of NPDs/EPDs under the supervision of R&D associate or manager
* Ensure that the Project development elements are carried out for each project, in collaboration with the team for example:
o Production of lab samples and samples for consumer testing
o Performance tests
o Stability tests
o Claim support for marketing claims
o Support cost-saving initiatives
The experience we\'re looking for
* Self-starting and capable of working independently
* Good formulation knowledge and understanding of chemical interactions
* Ability to interpret results from lab tests through statistical analysis of testing data
* Good negotiating and interpersonal skills
* Good organizational and problem-solving skills
* Ability to identify and communicate risks
* Capable of building strong working relationships and networking skills
* Good analytical skills
* Strong intellectual curiosity and appetite for exploring new and previously uncharted territories
* Good communication skills both written and oral in English and good presentation skills
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, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, Fragrance.
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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