Senior 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 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**:
**Senior Associate - NGP**

**Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire**

**Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package including bonus, 10% pension contributions and healthcare.**

New Growth Platforms is a start-up within the Hygiene BU, created with the objective to provide commercial products under the Reckitt Pro Solutions brand, as part of Global Business Solutions (GBS), and to rollout our consumer products to the under-served or unserved, as part of the Global Expansion Market (GEM).

This role will be responsible for leading the rollouts of products within the GEM Americas + Caribbean business. You will be the lead for the delivery of key projects and initiatives under the New Growth Platforms (NGP).

**Your responsibilities**:

- Lead as the R&D expert on GEM Americas + Caribbean initiatives, working as part of cross-functional GEM team to deliver key projects (rollouts, new claims, demos, etc).
- Work cross functionally in partnership with internal collaborators, e.g. Regulatory, sales and marketing.
- Lead the compilation of technical data packages as part of regulatory dossiers.
- Complete testing to support new claims, benchmarking, etc, within the Hull laboratories or through internal or external partnerships.
- Liaise with external partners when needed.
- Work extremely closely with commercial functions offering direct technical advice to our sales team and directly to our customers at events.

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

- Educated to degree level in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- Leading projects in a technical capacity.
- Mid-level R&D professional, (or experience in a related function or industry) with an agile, start-up mindset.
- Ability to build strong networks and stakeholder management skills.
- Good attention to detail, with solid written and oral communication skills.
- Able to prioritise projects and tasks whilst maintaining good quality of work and achieve deadlines.
- The capability to define, evaluate and manage risks.
- Have a truly global mindset with the role covering the various territories and countries.

**The skills for success**:
Organisational skills, communication skills, influencing skills, evaluation skills, analysis skills, technical lead skills, laboratory skills.

**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**:
At Reckitt, 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. Come and join a team whose purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.

All qualified applicants to Reckitt will receive consideration for employment wi