Reckitt
Manager, Environmental Tox
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Safety Leader (Environmental Toxicology) – Research & Development at Reckitt
Reckitt empowers healthier lives in every home by protecting, healing, and nurturing with trusted brands. Our purpose drives us to make hygiene, wellness, and nutrition a right, not a privilege. We’re a global team dedicated to innovation, responsibility, and ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety and quality.
About the Role
In Research & Development, we combine science, entrepreneurship, and bold innovation to advance Reckitt’s portfolio—for business success and societal impact. Our centres of excellence stand at the heart of this mission: accelerating solutions rooted in sound science, sustainable practices, and compliance.
This global leadership role is for a Safety Leader in Environmental Toxicology, reporting into the Consumer Safety (RAS) team. As a subject matter expert, you’ll:
- Drive environmental safety across product lifecycles—supporting new development, external issues, and existing portfolios.
- Collaborate globally with cross-functional teams (Sustainability, R&D, Regulatory, etc.) and external stakeholders, including industry bodies.
- Set direction for the RAS function, ensuring Reckitt delivers safe, high-quality, and compliant products that are both performant and sustainable.
- Represent Reckitt externally, aligning environmental safety objectives with strategy and regulatory agendas.
You’ll thrive in a leadership role where safety, sustainability, and innovation intersect to improve lives worldwide.
Responsibilities
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Strategic Risk & Regulatory Leadership
- Provide environmental toxicology expertise for new/existing medicinal and non-medicinal product development, and external issue management.
- Oversee drafting Environmental Risk Assessments (ERAs) in compliance with IECSC, OECD, EMA, EPA and local regulations, ensuring data integrity and timing.
- Manage external ecotoxicity studies, ensuring cost-effective, timely, and scientifically valid results to support all regulatory filings.
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Compliance & Programme Management
- Drive regulatory quality standards and FAIR principles, by safeguarding data and documentation across regulatory lifecycles.
- Monitor regulatory changes (local and global), assessing impact and advising on mitigation, Fitzgerald et al., ensuring the Company remains objective and proactive.
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Team & Leadership Development
- Train, mentor, and build capability within the global Environmental Toxicology team, fostering growth through the R&D Academy programme.
- Foster a culture of change leadership, innovation, and operational excellence across environmental safety initiatives.
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Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy
- Engage internally with R&D, Sustainability, Regulatory, and Supply teams to align environmental safety with broader business strategy.
- Represent Reckitt externally (e.g., national authorities, trade associations) to promote global environmental safety standards.
Requirements
Essential
- Education & Expertise: A BSc or equivalent, with an advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in Ecotoxicology, Environmental Health or Toxicology-related fields. +5 years’ experience in a highly regulated and fast-paced environment.
- Technical Proficiency: Hands-on expertise in QSAR tools (e.g., QSAR models, EUSES, CHESAR), ecotox databases (e.g., EcoSARTOX, OECD Corpus) and Statistical evaluation of known/experimental endpoints. Familiarity with OECD test guidelines (e.g., TG201, TG203, TG206, etc.) is essential.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Deep understanding of molecular, environmental health, and consumer safety risks, including exposure assessment and worst-case scenarios.
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management: And proven director or senior manager-level experience within Occupation Hygiene, Environmental Health, Sustainability, and/or Under Writing. Experience in R&D, pharma or cosmetics with Medicinal Product registration experience is a plus.
Desired
- Global experience, spanning public, scientific/academic, industry, or regulatory sectors.
- Current or installed حذيف collaboration with clinical detox/pharmacology/bioanalysis teams—guiding and applying environmental safety to product strategies.
- Competency in STATIN settings and occupational hygiene in industrial settings.
- Broad/open license to work in multiple countries, enabling flexible assignment between sites.
- Interest in occupational/regulatory health safety.
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The skills for success
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Scientific leadership (
- **Application of QSAR methodologies,
- Scientific regulatory communication,
- Proficiency with high-level risk assessments,
- Regulatory affairs,
- Scientific research & development).
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Team-building & Agile Leadership (
- **Coaching and collaboration,
- Results-driven (achieving targets),
- Continuous improvement.**
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Commercial Awareness (
- **Aligning safety with business,
- Standpoint alignment with legal, production, R&D teams**).**
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Change Readiness & Repair (
- **Effective change management,
- Resilience**.)
Free skills: Earth-performing under pressure, working flexibly, cross-functional partnership-building, goal-deadline attaining, proactive problem-solving, clarity and flexibility—both in workplace realities and as a component for evolving the function. Offering added personal value comes from your curricula & genuine passion.
Benefits
We empower you to bring your full self to work, driven by Inclusion and Belonging. Here’s what you gain:
- Career Growth: Support through mentoring, training, and development programmes like our R&D Academy.
- Wellbeing: Global parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental wellness, Life Insurance, and flexible work options.
- Financial Rewards:
- Equity plans for long-term alignment with Reckitt’s global success.
- Short-term incentives for outstanding contributions—recognizing your impact in real time.
- Pay platforms aligned with market rewards, rooted in fairness, targets, compensation, and contribution transparency.
- Global Opportunities: Cultural diversity ensures your career path transcends borders and disciplines.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We’re a global corporation diversity, celebrating talent in all its forms. If you demonstrate potential—and passion for our purpose—we’ll consider you whole. All qualified applicants, regardless of background, receive equal consideration under the law. Dismissing any bias in hiring ensures that we elevate brilliant minds for the world they build.
Join us. Together, we safeguard for better health.
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