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 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.

Your responsibilities

• Project Planning Management

Be responsible for the global device Project Plan. Ensuring that the internal and external schedules and process Milestones are synchronized so that the targets set according to global project champion and Customer can be reached.

• Project Resource Management

Be responsible for project resource management, ensure adequate & efficient human resource deployed and project budget is well controlled.

• Project Execution Management

Project Manager actuates global execution to co packer by making sure that co packer are doing right tasks and issues on right time; ensures that the project teams are following the global/local project development process principles, including milestone reviews, quality validation and production preparations. International travel will be required as part of the validation process.

• Project Quality Management

Be responsible for project quality management. Work with quality employee to validate product design, qualification and continuous improvement to ensure project quality process is well followed. Deliver quality project to meet or exceed stakeholder’s expectation.

• Risk Management

Controlling the project related risk management process and steering preventive and corrective actions. Ensure the timely and efficient problem solving. Acts accordingly as the escalation point for local Project related issues and when needed escalates the project specific issues to the Management.

• Information Management

Ensure the sharing of validated fact-based information both internally and externally across global project team, ensure that global project team members have adequate and up-to-date information. Organizing needed project resources with related resource owners. Setting practices, roles and responsibilities for information distribution and project execution.

• Technology Management

Ensure adequate attention and action to the implementation of project-related fundamental technologies, good confidential and IP sense.

• Financial Management

Integrate costing information (cost models) from co packer to procurement & finance for consolidation. Be responsible for bidding package preparation and Capex application. Provide sufficient justification to procurement team for product cost and investment to achieve product COG target.

• Supply Chain Management

Support logistic and procurement team to design an efficient project-specific and competitive Supply Chain. Ensure together with global project team that agreed capacity, competence and material flow targets are met at right time.

The experience we're looking for

• Outstanding engineering & industrial design ability
• 8+ years experience in industry, at least 5 in engineering position.

• Technical and manufacturing management.
• Project management.
• Process equipment and technology expertise with a deep appreciation of Injection Molding and Material forming technology.
• Management of relationships with international third parties (and specifically equipment, RM and OEM suppliers); understand the business objective and know how to deal with different people.
• Good background knowledge of packaging/electronics technology
• Detailed knowledge of tool-making and the key cost drivers in tool design.
• Success of the role will be measured by the successful production start up of NPD projects and by successful implementation of major cost reduction projects based on use of novel technology.

The skills for success

• Fully bilingual Chinese / English. Other languages as an advantage.

• Track record of delivery, goal oriented, sets clear priorities and meets deadlines.
• Good negotiating skills, able to align the different interests of internal parties R&D Category, Marketing, Procurement and External Manufacturers.
• Creative and positive attitude, overcomes obstacles, good at problem solving.
• Prepared to get involved, learn and apply knowledge and skills.
• Accurate, understands data, facts and figures; is able to distil complex data into useful information and conclusions.
• Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral in English. Any other languages are advantageous but not essential.
• Combines a hands-on approach with a strategic vision.
• Works effectively in multifunctional teams, promotes team effort, builds relationships, gets buy-in from colleagues.
• Has a good sense of humor, able to put matters in perspective, prepared to acknowledge own mistakes and shortcomings and ensure that he/she and others learn from them.
• Flexible. Capable of working completely independently, making independent decisions and of being trusted to do the right thing for business.
• Experience in using CAD/simulation software such as SolidWorks

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.