Manager

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 Research and Development, 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 Safety leader, the role will focus on delivering Environmental toxicological risk assessments and communicating key safety risks to support the product pipeline. The role has global responsibilities and involves close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to fulfil the responsibilities of the RAS function and ensure the development of safe, sustainable Reckitt products throughout the product lifecycle.

The manager will be a contributor as a subject matter expert within the safety organisation providing expert guidance to R&D and support Consumer Safety (RAS) Associates to ensure robust testing strategies and high-quality risk assessments that underpin the safety of Reckitt products. It is a broad, globally connected role requiring proactive collaboration across multifunctional teams to support the development of safe, sustainable products throughout their lifecycle. The role will also 
partner with other safety managers to represent and deliver the objectives of the Global Consumer Safety function.

This role may involve representing Reckitt interests in environmental safety with internal stakeholders, and externally with industry associations and other organisations as required.

Your responsibilities

• Provide environmental safety input across all categories, including new/existing product development and external issue management.
• Ensure Environmental risk assessments (ERAs) for medicinal products are conducted in line with regulations, company policies and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain programmes to ensure environmental safety and regulatory compliance across raw materials, products, packaging, and devices.
• Stay current with evolving methodologies, scientific developments, and regulatory requirements related to Environmental Toxicology.
• Oversee (monitor) external environmental toxicity studies as required, to support product safety, registration, and compliance.
• Establish robust governance to deliver timely, high-quality safety outputs.
• Train, mentor, and build capability within the environmental toxicology team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally (R&D, Regulatory & Safety, Sustainability, Advocacy & Supply) to ensure scientifically sound and compliant environmental assessments.
• Engage internally and externally on environmental safety topics, to include representing the company with trade industry bodies, and other organisations.
• Monitor and respond proactively to emerging environmental legislation, regulatory changes, and issues impacting the product portfolio

The experience we're looking for

• BSc and preferably higher degree in Ecotoxicology, Environmental Toxicology, Toxicology or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• You will need to display excellent communication skills in both verbal and written forms, good business acumen and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information, expertise and risks related to environmental toxicology, agile work ethic to achieve timelines and program deliverables.
• Strong collaboration skills and proactive self-starter with ability to work independently following an action-oriented mindset.
• As an experienced manager, you enjoy building teams and sharing your knowledge to improve results, and are also comfortable having more difficult conversations, when required.
• Experience working in a corporate setting with Entrepreneurial mindset and commercial awareness.
• Experience writing environmental risk assessments (ERA) for human medicinal products, data interpretation, and use of tools such as, QSAR, EUSES, CHESAR, etc.
• A strong working knowledge of relevant environmental toxicology regulations.
• A proven track record of managing the successful delivery of Environmental Toxicology projects to include writing Environmental Toxicology regulatory submissions and responding to authorities' questions. 
• Experience in monitoring ecotoxicological studies.
• Results-oriented, ability to work flexibly, critical thinker and self-motivating.
• Experience in working in multi-functional and multi-cultural teams.
• Drive for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral (in English).

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

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.