R & D Associate - Veet - Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom - Reckitt

Reckitt
Reckitt
Verified Company
Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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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 R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.


About the role:

R&D Associate - Veet

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits

  • As an R & D Category Associate at Reckitt, you will thrive in our fastpaced 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. With responsibility for new product development for the Veet brand, working with other business functions to develop consumer preferred products. Providing detailed technical input into all aspects of support for the Veet portfolio, supporting technical projects across a range of product formats, ensuring they are progressed to the required standard and agreed timelines.

Your responsibilities:


  • New product development for the Veet brand across multiple product formats (creams, waxes, gels etc)
  • Leading, organising and performing developmental Lab work and supervising sample testing
  • Providing detailed technical input into all aspects of support for the portfolio, you will support/lead technical projects across a range of product formats.
  • Leading projects and independently leading larger aspects of projects
  • Lead and coordinate meetings
  • Communicating and feeding back project updates to senior management as well as presenting new ideas for ways of working

The experience we're looking for:


  • A degree in a Scientific Discipline
  • Experience of working within a laboratory environment
  • Experience or knowledge from a cosmetic or healthcare FMCG background
  • An understanding of Scientific Documentation related to New Product Development
  • Knowledge of theoretical and practical aspects of formulation/analytical science
  • Experience of leading/supporting technical aspects of projects
  • Strong communication skills and the willingness to put forward ideas and opinions
  • A proactive attitude toward tasks and are action orientated as well as being a self starter

The skills for success:


R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry, Entreprenurial.


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 carin
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