R&D Manager, Dettol Personal Care

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 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

The role of R&D Manager is to lead a technical team with global responsibility to support the development of new products and technologies and enhance current products in line with the category strategy for the global PC liquids vertical.

He/she will be responsible for development of his/her team, management of resources, project planning & stakeholder management.

Your responsibilities

• Lead a technical team with global responsibility to deliver product development projects for the Liquids format (new and enhancements to current products) to market in line with Category Strategy.
• Work closely with Marketing, Manufacturing, and key functional groups to advance initiatives successfully through the product development process.
• Contribute to the Category Innovation process and support the implementation of a technology strategy to underpin long term Category pipeline development.
• Work with Category Management to develop clear Project Development Briefs.
• Following approval of Project Briefs, to be accountable for:
• the achievement of project development milestones and objectives.
• liaison and motivation of the appropriate RB functions and external resources to ensure completion of all activities to plan.
• the timely completion of specifications, support data and generation of the Technical Dossiers for project handover.
• The management the interface with Regional Laboratories/Supply to ensure “seamless” project handover to manufacturing, launch to the market and subsequent roll out.
• Allocation of resources within the team to meet agreed project objectives and timelines within the Category strategy.
• Develop sound commercial knowledge and a close relationship with the Category Team(s) to understand needs ensuring the development team is responsive to business needs.
• Build a cohesive, motivated, and professional team within a results-oriented culture, where personal responsibility/initiative, teamwork, and mutual respect are key.
• Be responsible for the development of his/her team members to enable them to achieve their full potential.
• Recruit team members to ensure strengthening of the bench.
• Responsible for ensuring that all development activity within the team conforms with legislative, Health and Safety and environmental requirements.
• Provide support to other internal functions as required.
• Proactively track and respond to competitor threats by:
• understanding their development activities.
• advising Category Team(s) and the business of competitor threats.
• identifying technical solutions in response to such threats.

The experience we're looking for

• 10+ years’ experience within FMCG company running a small development team and technical expertise in Personal Care liquids formulations.
• Experience with recruitment, management, and development of people.
• Results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with solid planning and organisational capabilities, a bias for action, and the capability to define, evaluate and take risks.
• Good leadership, motivational and interpersonal skills.
• Global mindset, commercial understanding of corporate and 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.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong intellectual curiosity with an appetite for exploring new and previously uncharted territories and an openness to change and ability to think out of the box.
• Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising on deliverables.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Adaptability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Change Leadership, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Collaborator, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Product vision and strategy development, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, 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.