R&d Fragrance Development Associate

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 help in the development of new fragrances innovation, for global and local brand initiatives, providing olfactive and technical support to ensure superior fragrance solutions are delivered. You’ll support in the evaluation for all fragrance development projects and ensuring successful technical development of the fragrances and overall consumer products, for the region. Ultimately, you’ll will support the development of consumer loved fragrances, from ideation, through launch and on to product maintenance, helping us in support of our purpose, to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Support the Regional Fragrance Development Manager to develop superior fragrance and consumer experience solutions for multiple global and regional brands
- Support the olfactive and technical development of all new fragrances for the region, working closely with core internal and external partners and in conjunction with multiple cross functional business partners.

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

- Project Management experience within a cross-functional, international, and multi-cultural environment
- 2+ years Fragrance evaluation experience with above average olfactive acuity
- Expertise in development and validation of new fragrance technologies, including new product development
- Strong technical problem-solving skills, with expertise of technical R&D product development experience
- Fluent in English

**The skills for success**:
R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Consumer understanding and sensory testing, Portfolio fragrance management, External vendor 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.