Consumer Safety Executive
IT, Infrastructure & CybersecurityPosted 8 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Consumer Safety Executive-PLM”
Posted 8 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Consumer Safety Executive-PLM”
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Study levelBachelor's or higher
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.
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.
• The RAS Consumer Safety, Executive PLM role is purposed to provide resource and technical support as part of the Consumer Safety function for deliverables to the PLM program.
• Specifications and formulation approval are at the heart of PLM and key to its success. Consumer Safety will be responsible for reviews and approvals at the raw material, formulation and supplier level. It will also have a key role in driving high quality standards for our data with setting specification limits where appropriate.
• You will be helping drive the simplification of our data and processes to deliver a positive change in the way in which R&D develops and delivers new products to market.
• This role will include supporting the wider Consumer Safety functions in RAS in all aspects of technical review and migration of raw material, product and supplier documentation. The establishment of data quality standards and revision processes as part of the PLM programme.
• Provide Consumer Safety input into raw material (RM) and product specifications.
• Collate, review, and validate raw material toxicological and safety data (e.g. Supplier SDS, RMQ).
• Support data migration activities for substances, raw material and formulation safety information.
• Support Consumer Safety Business Process Leaders and cross functional representatives to define processes and data quality standards and maintain accordingly.
• Ensure raw material and product specification updates all follow agreed processes and meets the respective documentation quality requirements.
• Identify and remove duplicate data to improve overall specification data quality.
• Conduct technical analysis of supplier raw material data and recommend remediation or continuous improvement actions.
• Using your knowledge of Safety, you will support testing and validation activities of the new PLM solution.
• Help deliver end user training and support PLM system queries following roll out.
• Ensure timely, high quality safety outputs in line with company standards.
• Support ongoing data governance and specification maintenance activities.
• Degree in a relevant technical discipline, higher degree preferred. Some industry experience an advantage
• Strong planning, organisational, problem solving, and self management skills.
• Effective communicator with good influencing and interpersonal skills, able to work across cultures and teams
• Ability to work to deadlines in a global, remote team environment.
• High IT literacy, including MS Office and Power BI.
• Able to prioritise and execute tasks under pressure
Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.
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.
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.