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Job Description

We are Reckitt

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 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

You'll help in the development of new fragrances innovation, for global and local brand initiatives, providing olfactive and technical support to ensure superior fragrance solutions are delivered

Your responsibilities

You'll support and lead the evaluation for all fragrance development projects and ensuring successful technical development of the fragrances and overall consumer products, for the region.

Ultimately, you'll will support the development of consumer loved fragrances, from ideation, through launch and on to product maintenance, helping us in support of our purpose, to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.

The experience we're looking for

- Minimum of Bachelors / Master's degree in a relevant scientific discipline with 9 years + experience in Fragrance development / product development and application in a FMCG environment.
- Experience in being an interface between Reckitt R&D team and core

suppliers, including leading the briefing/debriefing and evaluation of fragrances to guide the development process.

- Fragrance evaluation experience with above average olfactive acuity
- Strong technical problem-solving skills, with 5+ years of proven Project Management experience within a cross-functional, international and multi-cultural environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to handle the stakeholders and align on the development activities with specified timeline.
- Experience in consumer understanding and sensory testing methodologies
- Experience in coordinating with R&D team and external vendor management
- Product sensory evaluation and report generation and stability sample assessment.
- Support the exploration of fragrance related technologies within the Innovation community.

The skills for success

Fragrance, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, Fragrance.

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.