R&D Associate - Product and Pack Transfers (FTC)

Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Research & Development

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 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 Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

This position is 24 month FTC

As R&D Associate – Product and Pack Transfers, you will lead and support technical product transfers between manufacturing sites, ensuring product integrity, compliance, and timely execution. This role requires strong technical expertise, project management skills, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver seamless factory transitions while maintaining quality and regulatory standards.

Your responsibilities

The R&D Associate will work with the R&D Manager – Product and Pack Transfers on all technology transfers for Essential Home:

Lead technical transfer of products between factories, ensuring consistency in formulation, performance, and compliance.

Develop and execute transition plans, including technical assessments and validation plans

Coordinate factory line trials, with travel to support as required

Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, and R&D teams to meet project milestones.

Ensure all technical documentation, batch records, and validation protocols are updated and accurate.

Uphold safety and good housekeeping practices in lab

The experience we're looking for

Degree held in a relevant scientific field and with strong technical curiosity to solve complex problems

Proven track record of successful technical project delivery in FMCG or similar industry with understanding of requirements of R&D validation and product success criteria.

Strong understanding of factory transfer processes.

Good formulation knowledge and understanding of chemical interactions.

Excellent organisational and project management skills.

Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with experience in risk management

Strong intellectual curiosity, with the ability to work independently and proactively.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Ability to adapt to change and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Proficient in MS Office and project tracking tools.

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.

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.