R&D Associate PLM Packaging Specification Compliance in 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. 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.

Your primary role is to ensure that the writing of new packaging material specifications/ packaging assembly specifications/ finished goods specifications and the revision of existing ones is done so following the Business Process defined by Business Process Leader- Packaging Materials and in the process raise the quality of packaging material specifications to that defined in the data quality standard for the commodities which are in your portfolio. This will be a collaborative activity, working with the Core PLM Packaging process and Deployment site SME’s and taking inputs from key functions such as Quality, Regulatory, Consumer Safety, Procurement and Manufacturing and using your judgement and experience to strike the optimum balance when some of these requirements are in conflict and through providing governance and KPI reporting to enable continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities:

• Help transform our packaging material specification portfolio with focus on the assigned Packaging commodities.
• Consolidate our packaging material specification portfolio, removing duplicates, increasing the number of cross-site PM specs where applicable, and broadening the range of our PM specs where appropriate, at all times ensuring they meet the holistic needs of our business.
• Maintain and improve data quality standards for our Packaging material specification portfolio.
• Support audit programme against agreed KPI’s.
• Providing technical analysis of cross regional specification data and making recommendations for remediation and Continuous improvement opportunities.
• Working with the BPL-PM for guidance follow the process for PM specification management that is defined in our new operating model.
• Work with Procurement and Specification management team to ensure that our PM spec portfolio is developed whilst being mindful of the packaging materials and associated suppliers that our procurement organization is guiding us to.
• Collaborate with and nurture good working relationships with our partner organizations who will provide input into specifications, namely regulatory, safety, quality, procurement, manufacturing and of course R&D Packaging development teams to ensure General Specification templates remain fit for purpose.

The experience we're looking for:

• Qualification in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Team player with good collaboration skills and able to demonstrate attention to detail.
• Good communication, influencing and interpersonal skills with the ability to operate successfully in various team capacities, a multi-cultural environment, at senior levels and with external partners.
• Proficiency in the use of the MS Office product suite and familiar with Microsoft Power BI data analysis tools.
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks under pressure.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of corporate codes of conduct.
• Willingness to improve understanding of the product lifecycle and of regulations impacting the FMCG sector.
• Working knowledge of, procurement of packaging materials, identification of fit for purpose packaging material from suppliers, Packaging development, Specification Management, Packaging Material portfolio management, complexity reduction, Handover to Manufacturing, Regulatory and Safety assessment as they apply to Packaging materials e.g. Reach, Data management & reporting.

The skills for success:

• Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

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.

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 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.