Process Compliance Senior Associate - Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire

Process Compliance Senior Associate – Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, GB, HU1 1AA

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.
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
As a Process Compliance Senior Associate within Delivery & Improvement, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance of processes within Regulatory Affairs & Safety (RAS). You will lead and drive priority / cross functional process improvement initiatives from design stage onwards, building customer requirements and driving departmental efficiency. The role will use the appropriate continuous improvement methodologies and tools to deliver at the right pace and ensuring outcomes are clear, delivered, measured, and embedded into BAU.
Hiring Manager – Andrew Quigley
Closing Date – 7th August 2025
Your responsibilities
– Map RAS processes, ensuring harmonisation, simplification and effectiveness across the RAS Operating Model
– Ensuring processes are compliant with process documentation, including oversight and support of updates to RAS SOPs
– Design, document, implement and communicate new processes and procedures across RAS/Reckitt
– Manage execution of prioritised cross-team end to end process improvement initiatives, reporting the status of projects to D&I Management, RAS SMEs and Key Stakeholders and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
– Lead the facilitation of workshops and project meetings, ensuring the right balance of engagement and pace
– Utilise Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies to define activities that are aligned with business objectives. Promote use of Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools within RAS.
– Scope process improvement initiatives and identify the resources (people and other) to achieve successful execution
– Execute complex end to end process improvement initiatives with limited supervision and guidance and the ability to influence other cross functional teams without direct authority
– Data gathering and manipulation and able to pull multiple sources of data to understand end to end process capability and performance
– Develop control plans and monitor process capability, performance and improvement in key metrics, operational improvement and business benefits
– Assess change readiness and prepare plans for helping stakeholders through change
The experience we\’re looking for
– Proficiency in Lean Six Sigma tools and methodology and appropriate use, including ability to coach others
– Project management and organisational skills including scoping, action planning, benefits measurement and deployment considerations
– Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesise large amount of information to quickly understand complex processes
– Data collection, analysis and key metric development and monitoring to track process capability and process improvements
– Able to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies within a process and remove waste / automate process steps
– Preparing and facilitating workshop, driving progress towards the desired outcome while keeping attendees motivated and energised-
– Able to simplify and present complex information/processes to communicate to and achieve buy in from stakeholders
– Influence, negotiation and conflict resolution
– Cross-functional leadership skills and ability to manage improvement through others
– Strong enquiring mind and a ready to challenge attitude
– Prioritise multiple simultaneous issues while retaining high attention to detail
– Strong communication with a pro-active approach to business partnering
The skills for success
Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, 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. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt\’s pay for performance philosophy.
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.
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