R&d Manager Laundry-mira

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**:
You’ll work closely with all R&D functions around the globe as well as supply, procurement, regional/category marketing/commercial teams and external partners on innovation and maintenance of laundry detergent categories. The team deliver projects to drive business results that outperform the market and maintain or achieve brand leadership within the category while maximising profitability. This is a role which focuses on developing in-depth technical knowledge, project leadership, team development and communication skills.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Successfully lead and manage a Team Interfaces at a project / technology / method and data interpretation level on a regular basis with R&D Matrix organisation, Supply, Procurement, Quality, Category/Commercial, External - Suppliers, Technology partners
- Accountable for delivering projects / method and data interpretation and strategies to agreed targets within assigned portfolio / scope of responsibility and in accordance with agreed innovation pipeline, budget, resources and timing
- Management, supervision and development of assigned team members (direct and indirect reports)
- Technical development of themselves and their team members, sharing of this knowledge with partners to maximise the business benefit for Reckitt
- Interaction with other R&D Managers to develop and share best practice
- Stimulates a work environment that promotes intellectual curiosity with commitment to the highest quality standards and an intense drive for achievement to outperform
- Ensures that facilities and processes operate efficiently with a prioritization on Health, Safety and compliance to legal and our policies.

**The experience we're looking for**:

- BS/BA/MS degree, ideally in a related science or engineering
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with product development within a FMCG environment, with a proven track record of delivery
- Strong multi-cultural leadership, influencing, motivational and interpersonal skills
- Strong end-to-end technical depth in FMCGs from innovation to industrialisation, combined with a strong business drive. Experience in laundry products is a plus
- Ability to anticipate, plan and realize significant projects / activities involving multiple technical and scientific hurdles
- Ability to identify consumer unmet needs, understand motivations and behaviours by effective input into the selection and implementation of consumer research methods
- Ability to select appropriate scale-up strategies, equipment and process parameters
- Ability to manage, control and optimize budgets for teams and projects
- People management and development skills

**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, 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 fo