R&D Associate Liquid Electrical (LE) Devices, Essential Home City: Kingston upon Hull **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 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** We are recruiting for an An R&D Associate focusing on Aircare Liquid Electrical (LE) devices. The purpose of this role is to support and deliver successful projects from concept creation, technical development to launch. Through developing products for our leading brand Air Wick, you have the platform to become an R&D technical expert. **Your responsibilities** + Technical project leading air freshener device projects from proof of principle feasibility to successful launch into market. + Collaborating with stakeholders such as Marketing, Supply, Quality, Regulatory and Product Safety and drive to accomplish objectives. + Understanding consumer needs and be able to translate them into technical success criteria of a product after getting alignment with relevant stakeholders. + Designing and executing test plans to ensure comprehensive product validation in close collaboration with Quality, Regulatory and Product Safety requirements but also manufacturing sites. + Working closely with Project Manager to ensure the project is delivered within the agreed timeline and budget. + Working with multinational teams to deliver projects globally. **The experience we're looking for** + Strong communication skills to collaborate cross-functionally and influence key stakeholders. + Strong problem-solving skills - methodical approach to technical issues and able to present them in a logical, clear and concise manner and recommend feasible solutions. + Degree qualified in a relevant scientific discipline (Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical/Chemical Engineering.etc is desirable + Proven record of delivering technical projects in FMCG industries. + Experience in developing household electrical appliances is an added advantage but not essentialapability to manage projects, large and small, with diligence and efficiency. **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. **Job Segment:** Counseling, Healthcare