Analytical Associate

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 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**:
Step into the forefront of innovation as an R&D Category Analytical Associate for Gaviscon. In this pivotal role, you’ll be part of a team of high-performing analytical scientists, leveraging your scientific expertise and consumer insights to shape and execute cutting-edge product development strategies. Your work will have a global impact, ensuring the integrity and success of our products.

**Closing Date - 25th July**

**Your responsibilities**:

- Takes ownership of allocated projects within the category innovation pipeline, working in close partnership with R&D capability teams, ensuring the projects have strong technical, consumer and or medical insights, Consumer and product performance success criteria (PDC), Aligned analytical development milestone with an understanding of technical risk throughout the development route, R&D analytical knowledge and resources needed to succeed
- Supports technical seeding of the innovation pipeline through supporting ideation and concept development, proactive partnership with R&D Category, R&D capability, Outside Innovation & Science and Technology teams (e.g. Smart Release), supporting competitive intelligence & benchmarking in order to identify threats and opportunities
- Supports the analytical feasibility stage of product development cycle for all agreed projects through to factory scale up working with the R&D matrix organisation to ensure Analytical Product Development milestones are delivered to agreed timelines and to suitable standards, technical risks on projects are understood and working with analytical lead appropriate mitigation actions agreed and reviewed with the cross functional team, Factory scale-up and Technology Transfer using a QbD approach, due diligence on 3rd party products is completed with alignment from the cross functional teams
- Ensure compliance with regulations, quality and health and safety requirements for all analytical activities and team members
- Support creation of new ownable Intellectual Property within the category

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

- Experience of delivering development projects (experience within an OTC Healthcare environment an advantage)
- Knowledge of OTC analytical product development process
- The capability to define, evaluate and communicate risks and the associated mitigation plans
- Communication and influencing skills
- Ability to build strong networks across a matrix organisation
- Comfortable working independently and partnering with cross functional teams within a matrix organisation

**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 r