Formulation Associate - Fixed-term contract (12 months maternity cover)

On-site in East·Added 11 days ago (last checked 19 Oct)

Reckitt

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The role

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 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

As a Formulation Associate, you will play a key role in developing and delivering innovation pipelines, transforming consumer, technical and scientific insights into successful product solutions. Working within a cross-functional R&D environment, you will lead formulation development from concept through scale-up and launch, balancing technical excellence, risk management and speed to market. You will also contribute to category expertise, intellectual property creation and continuous innovation to drive business growth.

Please note that this is a fixed-term contract (12-month maternity cover).

Your responsibilities

Creation, development and delivery of category pipeline(s)

Leads assigned innovation projects, ensuring robust technical and consumer insights, clear product success criteria, effective risk management, and alignment of formulation development activities.
Drives technical input into the innovation pipeline through concept development, collaboration with R&D and external innovation teams, and competitive benchmarking.
Supports formulation development from feasibility to factory scale-up, ensuring milestone delivery, risk mitigation, technology transfer, and third-party product due diligence.
Ensure compliance with regulations, quality and health and safety requirements for all formulation activities and team members.
Support creation of new ownable Intellectual Property within the category.

Technical leadership within the cross functional matrix

Support the cross functional teams to deliver the allocated projects in partnership with cross-functional team (inc. marketing) and building and justifying the product development specifications.
Partner with category analytical team and formulation process sciences team to drive product development from TT2 through to on market launch.
Support the cross functional teams to build technical risk assessment and mitigation plans for R&D manager sign off.

The experience we're looking for

Approximately 2 years of experience on a similar position.
Experience of delivering development projects (experience within an OTC Healthcare environment an advantage).
Hands-on laboratory experience in formulation, product development or related scientific disciplines.

The skills for success

Degree, preferably Science, Technology, Engineering, Chemistry, Biopharmaceutical or mathematics-based subject.
Knowledge of OTC formulation product development process.
The capability to define, evaluate and communicate risks and the associated mitigation plans.
Communication and influencing skills.
Ability to build strong networks across a matrix organisation.
Comfortable working independently and partnering with cross functional teams within a matrix organisation.

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.

Hiring process

3 steps3 interviews

Application
Recruiter conversation
With a recruiter · Phone call · 30 min
An informal call to talk through your background, achievements and motivations, plus practical details like salary expectations, notice period and availability.
Hiring Manager interview
With Hiring Manager and wider team
A skills-based interview with the hiring manager and wider team, focusing on your experience, strengths and how you approach real situations; using the STAR method is recommended.
Second interview (selected roles)
With stakeholders · Not every role
For some roles, a second interview such as meeting stakeholders or completing a presentation or case discussion.

Typical time from application to onboarding is up to 40 days, though timelines vary by role, location and interview scheduling.
AI may be used to research Reckitt or prepare, but application materials and interview answers should reflect the candidate; Reckitt does not use AI in candidate decision-making.
Candidates who reach a Hiring Manager interview always receive feedback from their recruiter, regardless of outcome.