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R&D assistant - PLM Packaging Specification Compliance

Kingston upon Hull, East
Posted 3 months ago
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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

Hiring Manager: Hasan Ejaz
TA: Julian Kolodziej

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

Your responsibilities

  • Support our packaging material specification portfolio with focus on the assigned Packaging commodities.
  • Help consolidate our packaging material specification portfolio, removing duplicates, increasing the number of cross-site PM specs where applicable, and broadening the range of our PM specs where appropriate, at all times ensuring they meet the holistic needs of our business.
  • Maintain and improve data quality standards for our Packaging material specification portfolio
  • Support audit programme against agreed KPI’s
  • Providing technical analysis of cross regional specification data and making recommendations for remediation and Continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Working with the BPL-PM for guidance follow the process for PM specification management that is defined in our new operating model.
  • Work with Procurement and Specification management team to ensure that our PM spec portfolio is developed whilst being mindful of the packaging materials and associated suppliers that our procurement organization is guiding us to.
  • Collaborate with and nurture good working relationships with our partner organizations who will provide input into specifications, namely regulatory, safety, quality, procurement, manufacturing and of course R&D Packaging development teams to ensure General Specification templates remain fit for purpose.

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The experience we're looking for

  • Packaging Development
  • Technical Documentation
  • Packaging Specification
  • Material Science
  • Project Management

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

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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.

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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.

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Skills

Packaging development
Technical documentation
Packaging specification
Material science
Project management
Business strategy
Task execution
Business acumen
Commercial awareness
Accountability
Consumer insight
Creative direction
R&D
Change leadership
Product lifecycle management
Collaboration

Location

Lowgate, Hull HU1 1HP, UK

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