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

Your responsibilities

• Generate and translate product concepts to technically feasible and consumer-relevant products using information from various products testing during all phases of product development.
• Applies expertise of ingredient functionality, interactions and other fundamental food science principles for optimum product design.
• Applies knowledge of nutritional and medical science and understands implications to product design.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate various unit operations to overall product functionality for scale-up to manufacturing.
• Effectively manages elements of intellectual property of formulations
• Utilizes structured process of analysis, design, contingency planning and resolution of product development problems.
• Effectively communicates technical topics to various audiences to influence decisions.
• Effectively utilizes networking relationships with internal R&D staff and suppliers to acquire other technical knowledge and expertise.
• Utilizes all pertinent regulatory guidelines in all aspects of product formulation to ensure legal compliance and product safety.

The experience we're looking for

• Advanced degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Nutrition or related discipline. Master’s degree/PhD is an advantage (not a requirement)

• Minimum 8 years of experience in a product development environment with at least 2 years of experience in managing a team of product development scientists.
• Proven leadership, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, focusing on influencing outcomes through persuasion and impact rather than formal reporting line accountability.
• Proven interaction with external customers in order to identify and understand internal and external customer needs.
• Successfully led product innovation from ideation to commercialization, maximizing opportunities to secure intellectual property.
• Strong applied knowledge in Dairy Science, Food Science, Project Management, Nutrition, Formulation Development, interpretation of food regulations
• Knowledge of Asia Regulatory environment is an advantage
• Experience in management of projects and intellectual property with third party manufacturers is an advantage

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

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.