R&d Operations Associate

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**:

- As an Associate / Assistant in Maintenance & Expansion you'll merge your scientific skills with technical know-how and work collaboratively across functions to expand your expertise. Embracing the opportunity to hone your leadership abilities, you’ll play an integral role in project delivery. Your influence will shape not just the products we bring to the market, but also the future trajectory of our budding leaders.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Support the development & line management to your team.
- Deliver technical projects, ensuring that activities are executed to the standards required for the relevant product classification.
- Ensure all required formulation, feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trials and dossier preparation
- Generate and approve data which supports product changes to a standard required by RB and to meet regulatory authority standards
- Support the wider Health team with respect to required activities that support operations in shared laboratories
- Develop knowledge and expertise to provide support for a given product portfolio
- Support the team the delivery of KPIs
- Support laboratory leadership to maintain working standards
- Maintain team compliance with Mead Johnson Nutrition working practices e.g. change management

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Educated to Degree level (Food/Nutritional Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or other relevant science related course), master’s degree/ PhD is an advantage (not a requirement)
- Minimum 2-3 years R&D experience with a proven track record of delivery
- Line management and people development desirable
- Understanding of nutritional and food science or similar
- Experience of generating technical documentation and reports to support product registration
- An excellent technical problem solver
- Experience of working with multiple partners to deliver success
- Experience with resource planning and prioritization desirable

**The skills for success**:
Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.

**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, eth