R&D Stability Associate City: Kingston upon Hull **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 Stability Expert Group are accountable for the highly efficient delivery of pivotal stability studies and associated data for our product shelf-life assignment and dossier registrations. Based in the busy fast paced analytical laboratory, which is designed for up to 175 analysts providing expert analytical support in the delivery of world-class innovation and continued maintenance of company health brands. Utilising modern technology and capabilities you will support the delivery of effective future proof data to support our product shelf-life assignments and dossier registrations Reporting to the R&D Stability Senior Associate, the R&D Stability Associate is responsible for the generation, review, and reporting of stability data for their specialised team. **Your responsibilities** - Prioritise your workload to ensure an effective delivery of the stability trials with a focus on ensuring trials are completed, reviewed, and reported in an efficient manner in line with agreed timelines. - 100% laboratory based focusing on Analytical Testing - Maintain appropriate Health and safety, Regulatory, Data Integrity and cGMP compliance. Contribute to compliance e.g., input into OOT/OOS investigations in partnership with Stability Senior Associate, Category colleagues and Quality - Perform other required testing e.g., E&L - Contribute to the delivery of continuous improvement across your team. - Daily, fast-paced problem solving - Contributing to simplification of ways of working, maintaining compliance but recognising business specificities when required - Maintain audit readiness, contributing to audits as required - Coach and mentor assistants and/or apprentices within the Stability Expert team - Working on brands across the Reckitt portfolio which will include Gaviscon & Local Heroes as well as the opportunity to work on Nurofen, Mucinex and other pain brands **The experience we're looking for** - Degree in a relevant scientific (typically chemistry, life-sciences, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences,) - Experience of working within a Laboratory environment (ideally GMP) - Experience of stability/product development, including direct experience of conducting stability studies. - Experience of using HPLC & Wet Technique - A practical scientific person, who enjoys being hands on and developing products and processes - Understanding of regulatory, cGMP and Health and Safety - Proactive, Resilient and Motivated - Skilled in terms of innovation and problem solving - Good communication skills - Drive and Motivation to work within a fast paced role managing multiple projects **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, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Healthcare