External Manufacturing Quality Auditor

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

Your responsibilities

• Delivery of Europe EMO qualification programme including audit and desk top assessment as required
• Supporting with Reckitt factory supplier audits as required
• Escalation of issues identified during audit or qualification activities
• Working closely with the EMOs and cross-functional Reckitt teams to provide support when significant quality issues are identified, by supporting the investigation and performing for-cause audits
• Supports Quality manager in critical event investigations
• Support delivery of team KPIs
• Support in the training of other team members where required and appropriate
• Support and participate (as required) in inspections by external regulatory authorities
• Propose quality improvements to suppliers and monitor implementation
• Maintaining auditor qualification and competency to the required levels

The experience we're looking for

• Trained and experienced lead auditor
• Experience and understanding of quality and regulatory requirements such as EU GMP, ISO13485, ISO22716 and ISO9001
• Experience of manufacturing operations across a broad range of therapeutic areas and product classifications
• Strong technical understanding of manufacturing processes
• Ability to critically evaluate how regulatory guidance and legislation is applied
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to work cross functionally
• Experienced in risk assessment 
   

Personal attributes

• Highly motivated and pro-active
• Driven to improve the way we work
• Strong moral ethics and drive to “do the right thing”
• Strong communication skills and able to debate and negotiate with personnel from all levels of the business
• Well-developed influencing skills
• Ability to work cross functionally and form collaborative relationships
• Diplomatic and tactful in difficult situations
• Organised and able to deliver concise written or oral summaries to senior management
• Able to train and coach others
• Persistent and driven to achieve a final solution
• Able to demonstrate behaviours in line with Reckitt core values/compass

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

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.