Senior R&D Associate

2 months ago


Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Reckitt Full time
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 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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and dynamic team as a Senior Associate in the global Air Wick R&D team based on our Hull site. Here you'll lead new formula and fragrance developments for Essential Mist, our fastest growing product format.

Your responsibilities

- Lead the delivery of projects from initial conceptualisation to product launch, by managing technical development and validation activities

- Collaborate with cross functional teams, including Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Safety and Manufacturing to ensure all required project activities are completed effectively and efficiently

- Identify opportunities to enhance product performance and robustness and develop associated plans to validate comprehensively

- Update key stakeholders on progress, risks and status of your project and activities.

- Interpret consumer and market data to generate viable product concepts, through leveraging new or existing technologies, scientific principles or methods.

- Guide and mentor members of your team.

The experience we're looking for

- Degree held in a relevant scientific field and with strong technical curiosity to solve complex problems

- Must have a proven track record in delivering development projects from concept through to launch through collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

- Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with experience in risk management

- Knowledge of key project management principles including understanding of timeline building, prioritisation, and meeting milestone objectives.

- Understanding of key requirements of R&D validation and production success criteria.

- Strong communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to effectively translate technical information to non-technical colleagues.

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, Analysis, Lab Based, Project Delivery, Technical Delivery, Technical Lead, Project Lead, New Product Development, Existing Product Development.

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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