Stability Assistant

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**:
The Stability Expert Group are accountable for the highly efficient delivery of pivotal stability studies and associated data for our product shelf-life assignment and dossier registrations.
Based in the busy fast paced analytical laboratory, which is designed for up to 175 analysts providing expert analytical support in the delivery of world-class innovation and continued maintenance of company health brands. Utilising modern technology and capabilities you will support the delivery of effective future proof data to support our product shelf-life assignments and dossier registrations
Reporting to the R&D Stability Senior Associate, the R&D Stability Assistant is responsible for the generation, review, and reporting of stability data for their projects.

**Closing Date 27th July**

**Your responsibilities**:

- 100% laboratory based focusing on Analytical Testing
- Be responsible for the compliant generation and reporting of Reckitt’s long term / pivotal stability studies that are allocated to you
- Contribute to the delivery of continuous improvement across your team.
- Daily, fast-paced problem solving
- Contributing to simplification of ways of working, maintaining compliance but recognising business specificities when required
- Maintain audit readiness, contributing to audits as required
- Coach and mentor other assistants and/or apprentices within the Stability Expert team
- Working on brands across the Reckitt portfolio which will include Nurofen & Mucinex, as well as the opportunity to work on Gaviscon, Local Heroes and other pain brands

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Degree in a relevant scientific (typically chemistry, life-sciences, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences,)
- Understanding of laboratory processes and procedures and stability/product development,
- Some experience from within a working laboratory
- Understanding and knowledge of HPLC & Wet Technique
- Able to deal with multiple projects with agreed deadlines
- A practical scientific person, who enjoys being hands on
- Understanding of regulatory, cGMP and Health and Safety

**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, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry.

**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 conditi