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Research & Development

The Raw Materials Assistant / Junior Associate will be part of the R&D Operations Raw Materials Governance team, Health & Hygiene. You will lead activities that are focused on ingredient resiliency and compliance on a global basis, with the aim of keeping our products compliant and future proofed.

About the role

• Deliver proactive ingredient reviews by providing data analysis and generate impact assessments of ingredients used in Health & Hygiene Products on the market.
• Monitor progress of Hygiene ingredient compliance projects to ensure successful completion.
• Identify gaps while performing reviews and suggest resolution options with corrective action plans, collaborating effectively with wider RM and R&D Operations teams for successful implementation of the overall plans.
• Deal effectively with complexity and ambiguity when interfacing with cross-functional partners, understanding and adjusting to changing situations and problems as they arise.
• Timely escalate issues that would impact agreed plans.
• Demonstrate quality mind with \xe2\x80\x98Right First Time\xe2\x80\x99 practice by following documented procedures and good documentation practice.
• Actively contribute to process improvements/ways of working and elevate our compliance standards.

The experience we\'re looking for

• Science-based degree, with experience in an R&D or Regulatory environment, working with data systems (TDS, databases)
• Effective communication & interpersonal skills - good influencing & networking
• Results oriented and self-motivated, with planning and organizational capabilities and good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to display a degree of flexibility and adapt effectively to change.

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.

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.