Analytical Assistant - 12-month FTC

City: Kingston upon Hull

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.

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.

As an R&D Category Assistant at Reckitt, you will thrive in our fast-paced environment alongside a team of expert scientists dedicated to ensuring product safety and efficacy. Your meticulous attention to detail will be crucial in supporting technical dossier management and analytical lab compliance. Working within our Category Pain team - Nurofen - you’ll help drive technical product development on key projects. Ultimately, you’ll help us create new products that solve real problems and improve the lives of millions of people globally.

This role will be split as required between the Formulation and Analytical functions in the Pain R&D team. While in analytical responsibilities will include supporting analytical testing, method development and data interpretation across multiple product formats. Conducting HPLC, wet chemistry and dissolution testing, Formulation responsibilities would be centred around new product development within the formulations laboratories. Using QBD standards to support the development of innovative solutions to consumer needs. All deliverables would be completed while maintaining high standards of compliance to established GMP and safety standards. Supporting medicinal regulatory dossier preparation for global submissions and collaborating cross-functionally across R&D and other business areas, contributing to new product development for the pain portfolio of products.

Your responsibilities:

• Working a 80/20 split between lab and office.
• You will support the analytical leads on a variety of projects.
• Day to day coordination/execution of analytical testing (in particular HPLC, wet chemistry techniques and dissolution) in conformance with all relevant safety and quality requirements.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings and contribute to the NPD process from product development through to launch.
• Communicate effectively with your line manager and manage stakeholder relationships across global R&D sites.

The experience we’re looking for:

• Degree qualified in a relevant Scientific Discipline.
• Experience in an analytical lab environment, ideally with HPLC and dissolution techniques.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Additional attributes:

• Creative and tenacious problem solver and must have a proactive mindset.
• Familiarity with analytical techniques such as HPLC analysis or dissolution would be beneficial.
• Good theoretical knowledge of analytical methodology.
• A great communicator who is confident in taking the lead on small projects.

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.

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.

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.