Quality Project Senior Associate

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 Reckitt we are full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Quality, 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 Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About The Role
Quality Project Senior Associate
Hybrid Working, Hull
Competative Salaey & Benefits Package
Closing Date: 10th November 2025
You'll contribute to the growth of our trusted product portfolio, ensuring the highest standards of quality. Your expertise will drive activities from concept to execution, fostering an environment of continuous improvement. If you thrive in a dynamic atmosphere and are looking for a role where your actions directly contribute to the company's success.

The main responsibilities of the Quality Project Senior Associate are to provide leadership for excellence in Quality and Compliance in the disentanglement of Essential Home to Core Reckitt External Manufacturing Organizations in Europe, acting as the Reckitt Quality contact, by working directly with EMOs responsible their assessment, qualification and monitoring against approved Reckitt and Regulatory standards and guidelines, supporting technology transfers between Reckitt and EMOs & partnership with cross functional teams for the successful delivery of the project

Your responsibilities

• Act as a lead auditor to assess and approve external manufacturers based on the disentanglement portfolio plan, to ensure compliance to the company standard and regulatory requirements.
• Provide support through leading root cause analysis investigations and generate effective CAPA to enhance quality robustness, influencing the process of continuous improvement at EMOs.
• Ensure implementation of appropriate controls to ensure consistent product quality.
• Identity and implement process improvements to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance service levels.
• Recommend approval (or rejection) of new EMOs.
• Provide quality/technical input during all technical transfers & project stages to voice quality risks, actions and priorities, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with the business goals
• Consult on process development, trials, and validation to drive category growth and protect base business supply plan.
• Master manufacturing process to ensure high-quality production.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing among the team and stakeholders.
• Impact assesses change controls to capture quality/technical considerations
• Create/Review/approval of Quality Technical Agreements to ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and that product meets with Reckitt requirements.
• Support of activities associated with EMOs for the disentanglement projects (DD, TT, IDB, CC, PCS, BOM, MOM, CPBOM, QTA, TM, Global Manual & GFS).
• Refers major non-standard and product quality issues to External Quality Manager.

The experience we're looking for

• Excellent risk management skills to identify and mitigate supplier risks to the business, developing strategies and executing action plans to resolve critical issues.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of manufacturing technology.
• Technical and professional qualifications, including experienced lead auditor with lead auditor qualifications.
• Project manage base business initiative.
• Thorough knowledge on the regulatory requirements, rules and guidance covering the QMS and GMP in Europe.
• Good knowledge and experience in Microsoft applications and office 365.
• Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Pharmaceutics.
• Experience of working in a quality and/or technical function in Pharmaceutical or related industry with at least 1 year participating as a lead auditor role.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

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.