R&D Assistant - Science Platforms

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.

As an Assistant within our Emerging Science & Innovation team you’ll dive into the world of creating consumer-focused, technically superior products while honing your scientific skills. This role is an opportunity to be involved with critical projects, from ideation to execution, and collaborate with a spectrum of talented professionals. In this role you will provide relevant scientific and technical knowledge to support the creation and delivery of initiatives, projects and programmes within the R&D Science Platforms team.

Your responsibilities:

• Accountable for providing R&D support to technical delivery of a designated range of Science Platforms projects and programmes.
• Ensure projects are completed compliantly, to high quality and on time.
• Perform feasibility and development work for projects and tasks that you are responsible for.
• Support identifying key technical risks and propose risk mitigation actions.
• Source suitable techniques to characterise critical product parameters.
• Responsible for any laboratory experiments or procedure within the team.
• Responsible for the completion, approval, circulation and communication of technical reports/technical data throughout development.
• Understand the relevant regulatory and/or legislative environment, safety requirements and intellectual property for project or technology work.
• Work closely with other functions when alignment is necessary for activities within the project you are responsible for.
• Ability to identify resource needed for execution/completion of assigned tasks and flag if there is a capacity concern.
• Track and highlight competitor technologies and scientific advances in the assigned area.
• Ensure all product development work adheres to relevant Reckitt or external quality, regulatory or Health and Safety standards (e.g. Reckitt Quality Manual).

The experience we’re looking for:

• Degree, MSc or PhD in chemistry, or similar relevant discipline.
• Experience in the FMCG industry is desired.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Skilled in the understanding, interpretation and communication of scientific data.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of technology and/or product due diligence is desired.
• Strong interpersonal skills such as influencing and relationship building.
• Experience of working in a matrix environment is desired.
• Clear and effective scientific writing skills.
• Project management skills (budget management, planning and milestone management, resource and risk management are desired).

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

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.

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.