R&D Formulation Associate - Local heroes

As an R & D Category Associate at Reckitt, you will thrive in our fast-paced 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.

This role is to manage NPD/EPD projects for pain and respiratory local heroes brands (Including Delsym/Mucinex, Lemsip, Reflex, Tempra and Naldecon), to ensure they are progressed to the required standard and agreed timelines, by leading all the formulation related activities e.g. formulation development and evaluation, process scale up and validation, stability technical assessment, technical trouble shooting as well as writing dossier sections along with providing answers to the regulatory questions and ensuring any resource issues are dealt with in a timely manner.

Your responsibilities

- Formulate products to meet the product brief providing formulation development data to support Global regulatory applications (formula and material justification, in line with QbD principles)

- Solve complex technical problems using experience, knowledge, research and advice from peers/seniors.

- Take ownership of assigned projects

- Plan formulation project activities and recommend resources requirements to the management

- Support all NPD/EPD projects, ensuring formulation aspects are effectively managed and any issues highlighted to key stakeholders in a timely manner

- Liaise closely with medical, regulatory, QA, Supply, marketing and other relevant functions in order to deliver projects.

Educated to degree level such as chemistry, pharmacy, chemical engineering or other relevant science

- Experience of working within a laboratory environment

- Experience of delivering development projects (experience with different formats such as Tablets, Lozenges, sprays etc an advantage)

- Knowledge of formulation product development process

- Knowledge and awareness of GMP requirements

- The capability to define, evaluate and communicate risks and the associated mitigation plans

- Strong communication and influencing skills

- Able to build effective relationships with stakeholders and manage expectations accordingly

The skills for success

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

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.