R&D PDM Associate
Reckitt
Samut Sakhon, Thailand
Posted on Nov 20, 2025
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.
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.
About the role
The position will be based in Bangplee reporting into a Senior R&D Operations Associate. The role will be to provide technical and documentation support to the current maintenance and development projects on Reckitt portfolio working independently to represent the R&D Operations department as part of a cross functional team. An essential requirement of the role as is an ability to take ownership of key aspects of the project.
Your responsibilities
- Ensure all technical aspects of the product development, maintenance are carried out as per the agreed timings, with any issues or risks clearly highlighted to line manager in a timely manner.
- Liaise with the cross functional internal and external team to ensure technical milestones are met.
- Responsible to lead the project for projects, ensuring that these are executed to the standards required for registered products.
- Ensure all relevant product specifications and internal documentation is in place and fully approved prior to full production start-up.
- All assigned development activity must conform to legislative, health & safety and environmental requirements.
- Assure all document for material change or qualification meeting HALAL regulation requirement.
- Support to R&D laboratory and stability management in order to comply with the requirements including maintenance activities, audit preparations, etc.
- Support line manager in measuring and reporting KPIs to senior management.
- Responsible for ensuring all required formulation, feasibility work, validation, stability testing,industrial trials, claim support and dossier preparation are performed on time and to the required standards.
- Responsible for the compilation, approval and circulation of technical reports throughout the product development process.
The experience we're looking for
- Educated to Degree level (Chemistry, pharmacy, chemical engineering or other relevant scientific discipline).
- The minimum 1 year of relevant experience will be more preferable.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse data and solve technical problems.
- Experience of working in a healthcare/OTC (or medical device) environment is desirable.
- Experience of prioritization and problem solving.
- Knowledge of basic cGMP, GLP or HALAL requirement.
- Relevant experience within product development role within FMCG environment.
The skills for success
- Questions/challenges conventional approaches; uses new information to offer realistic alternatives.
- Is able to set objectives and targets and define milestones that enable the delivery of results and works diligently towards achieving these results.
- Are able to interpret and see the opportunities to incorporate in innovation.
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.