R&D senior associate - PLM Packaging Specification Compliance

Position: R&D senior associate - PLM Packaging Specification Compliance.
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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. ​​
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.
PLM will transform the way that Reckitt operates, across business units and across functions.  The purpose of PLM is to radically transform the way Reckitt hold and manage product data, ranging from the technological systems we will use, to how we define an item and how we use it.  PLM will bring together global R & D, Procurement, Supply, and Marketing to speak the same language, use one source of truth, aid strategic business decision making and make multi-million-pound savings.
Specifications are at the heart of PLM and key to its success. To improve ownership and accountability for packaging materials specifications a new specification management team will be set up with responsibility for managing all packaging material specifications across Core Reckitt.
About the role
This is a role at the heart of the transformation that PLM will bring to R&D and core Reckitt. You will be responsible for a portfolio of packaging material specifications in core Reckitt, pioneering the new ways of working for how Reckitt's (General) specifications are written and their relationship with supplier specifications. You will help drive the simplification of our packaging materials portfolio and deliver an enduring positive change in the way in which R&D develops and delivers new products to market.

Working within core Reckitt, you will play a lead role in executing the end-to-end business process for packaging material specifications, from their creation to their retirement.
You will also be part of a dedicated team responsible for Packaging specification management. The team is made up of a Specification Management Leader, who you will report into, 2 Specification compliance managers who will manage a pre-defined portfolio of Packaging Specifications by commodity type and a number of Regional Packaging Material specification managers across Germ Protection, Household care, Self Care and Intimate Wellness who will be responsible for the Packaging specifications created in their region.
You will work closely with the Business Process Leader for packaging materials (BPL-PM) who will own the process for specification management that you and your team will follow. You will also work closely with the BPL-PM to set the data quality standards for packaging material specifications.
Your primary role is to ensure that the writing of new packaging material specifications, and the revision of existing ones is done so following the Business Process defined by the BPL-RM, and in the process raise the quality of packaging material specifications to that defined in the data quality…