Regional Quality Audit Senior Associate - EU - Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire

Regional Quality Audit Senior Associate – EU – 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
We\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’re in search of a proactive Quality Senior Associate to join the Reckitt team, where innovation and science converge to make a real-world impact. You\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ll contribute to the growth of our trusted product portfolio, ensuring the highest standards of quality. Your expertise will drive activities from concept to execution, fostering an environment of continuous improvement. If you thrive in a dynamic atmosphere and are looking for a role where your actions directly contribute to the company\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s success, we would love to see your application.
Hiring Manager – Amanda Baila
Closing Date – 30/6/25
Your responsibilities
– Act as a lead auditor to plan, arrange and complete new external manufacturing organisation audits, new supplier audits and ongoing routine compliance verification audits for Core Reckitt and follows up audit actions to completion.
– Ensure supplier activities are fully compliant with regulatory and Reckitt guidelines to minimise risk to consumers, company and brand.
– Write technical summaries and audit reports and issues reports within 28 days.
– Recommend approval (or rejection) of new suppliers.
– Escalate any non-standard issues through supplier QMS failures to the Corporate Audit and Vendor Quality Director and regional procurement leaders as necessary and ensure they are managed and communicated through the CEP process where appropriate.
– Propose quality improvements and training where required to suppliers to improve supplier performance.
– Develop and implement effective risk mitigation at suppliers, to reduce or mitigate risks risk to Reckitt.
– Work closely with Procurement, Factory Operations and other QA personnel of the material receiving sites to resolve quality issues with suppliers that may affect consumer safety, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction and operational performance.
– Contribute to the maintenance of the ongoing supplier assessment and re-approval programme based on risk.
The experience we\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’re looking for
– Available to undertake frequent regional travel as required. Some international travel may be required.
– Broad understanding of supplier management and quality management systems such as ICHQ7, EU GMP, ISO13485, ISO9001
– Strong leadership, partnership, and facilitation skills.
– Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience communicating to a diverse audience, at multiple layers within and outside the company.
– A continuous improvement mindset and ability to facilitate change.
– Excellent risk management skills to identify and mitigate supplier risks to the business, developing strategies and executing action plans to resolve critical issues.
– Technical and professional qualifications
– Experienced lead auditor with lead auditor qualifications.
– Degree or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline.
– Experience within a Quality organisation within a Healthcare or Nutrition environment
– Broad understanding of manufacturing and packaging operations including raw materials and packaging material manufacturing and control.
– Thorough knowledge on the regulatory requirements, rules and guidance covering the manufacture of pharmaceutical products in the geography of the role location.
– Ability to use Microsoft -Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
– Demonstrate behaviours in line with Reckitt strategic values.
– Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising on deliverables.
– Well-developed influencing skills, diplomatic and tactful in difficult situations.
– Highly motivated and confident in external environments. Organised and able to deliver concise written or oral summaries to senior management.
– Ability to work on own initiative is essential for the success of this role.
– Excellent communication skills and able to debate and negotiate with external supplier personnel.
– Well-developed influencing skills. Diplomatic and tactful in difficult supplier situations
– Able to lead improvement plans with key suppliers, requires a good manufacturing knowledge and an understanding of business processes.
– Preferred to be able to train and coach other auditors.
The skills for success
Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.
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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