Consumer Safety Coordinator

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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.

In Research and Development, 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 Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About The Role
The Consumer Safety function within Reckitt has the responsibility to ensure consumers' safety for all of Reckitt's products. It ensures the application of human and environmental risk assessment and the communication of issues that may impact consumer safety or regulatory toxicology across the Reckitt business.

It delivers this through the mitigation of human harm & environmental safety risks through the safety and toxicological review of ingredients, product, packaging and articles across the product lifecycle.

The function maximises automated platforms and leverages toxicological and scientific expertise to facilitate innovation, drive safety by design, ensure product compliance and deliver a competitive advantage to Reckitt.

The integrated Consumer Safety team has been created to drive the strategic agenda of the Department by delivering technical safety input in guidance and partnership with the business needs of Reckitt. Success in this space depends on a robust understanding of both science and commerce, and will ensure Reckitt always has the consumer at the heart of all it does.

Hiring Manager - Naomi Jones

Your responsibilities

The role will involve being part of a team (6-8) of dedicated scientists responsible for conducting human risk (toxicology) safety assessments and environmental toxicology assessments, to ensure the delivery of high quality, safety documentation and programmes to meet Reckitt safety requirements.

Support the Technical Safety team with the delivery of technically sound and timely requests

Learn how to conduct scientific literature reviews and be able to follow scientific and regulatory development in the applicable field of product safety knowledge and standards.

• The individual will be responsible for ensuring that the Company safety standards are met for all and will help contribute to the development and maintenance of processes, policies, guidelines to drive high quality consistent deliverables.
• Ensure that any assessments are performed applying current scientific knowledge, methods and in compliance with relevant regulations and legislation. Conducting impact assessments for ingredients and products where appropriate and provide effective and timely communication to your line manager. As necessary and in compliance with Reckitt policies, help co-ordinate and manage tests required to support product registration and safety. Support the team with collation of safety documentation within our systems to support the product lifecycle and deliverables of the Consumer Safety team.

The experience we're looking for

• Alevels in science related disciplines and working towards a BSC in a relevant subject
• Ability to work in a fast-paced cross functional team environment purposed to deliver strong business results in a culturally diverse organisation
• You are self-motivated with strong initiative and drive and willingness to ensure the delivering of consistent and high-quality work to support the safety of Reckitt products
• Passion for collaboration and willingness to learn
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Capable of building strong working relationships to deliver strong results
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong time management skills

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.

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.