R&D Associate, Dettol

About the Position

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best-loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose is to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

R&D Associate, Dettol

City: Gurugram, India

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 flair, and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

Responsibilities

• Work with matrix teams to identify relevant consumer insights and ensure they are at the forefront to develop formulas, new products, and technologies in support of brand initiatives.
• Lead key projects through the feasibility process as R&D representative.
• Work cross-functionally and be the R&D lead on project teams to achieve key milestones and objectives.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Packaging, and Consumer Insights teams to develop, define, and design studies to help progress projects to build out our portfolio.
• Lead and advance multiple projects through front-end product development.
• Foster strategic growth in innovation processes and systems across the team and organization.
• Develop consumer-focused technical product strategies to support product development and short-term and long-term innovation.
• Foster personal development growth with continuous coaching and feedback on career development as per the Corporate Core Values.
• Deliver projects to launch on time, budget, and to the appropriate performance standards, quality, and cost.
• Ensure all required technical work is performed on time and according to the required standards, performing the required lab work and providing guidance to assistants/technicians if applicable.
• Build detailed consumer & technical knowledge of respective areas of the product portfolio/technologies and leverage this within day-to-day activities.
• Work with outside suppliers/teams to help deliver pipeline needs.

Requirements

• Educated to Masters/Degree level (Chemistry, pharmacy, chemical engineering, cosmetics, or other relevant science).
• Minimum 5-10 years R&D experience with a proven track record of R&D projects delivery.
• Experience of working in a cosmetic formulation environment is desirable.
• Strong technical background in Personal care formulation, surfactants, and processing.
• Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to work in a cross-functional environment including marketing, supply, procurement, regulatory, clinical, and legal teams.
• Oral & written communication skills to effectively provide feedback to the reporting manager and cross-functional team members.
• Global mindset, commercial understanding of corporate & operational business issues.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to think strategically, develop tactics and measurable implementation plans, and able to transform solid thinking into action.

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.

• Parental benefits
• Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health
• Life insurance for all employees globally
• Range of other benefits in line with the local market
• Global share plans offering the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes
• Short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward your work for delivering outstanding results

About the Company

We recognize 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; color, 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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