Overview

Position Title: R & D Flavour Associate

Company: Reckitt

Location: Slough, UK

Job Description:

Want a role with real-world impact? As an R & D Flavour Associate/Scientist – Health & Nutrition (Part Time) at Reckitt, you’ll have the freedom to help develop products that touch millions of lives. Worldwide.

Responsibilities:

  • This role sits within our Sensory & Consumer Science Excellence team; a product experience research team within R&D challenged with developing and delivering innovation focused on embedding consumer insight, preference and appeal into product solutions throughout the NPD process.
  • Working with both internal stakeholders such as R & D, Category Development, Marketing and the Regulatory teams as well as external flavour and fragrance suppliers, you’ll coordinate all the activities to support the flavour and fragrance aspect of project prioritisation and delivery.

Requirements:

  • You’ve already gained some experience in delivering consumer experience and have a passion for flavour and fragrance, and its impact on the human experience.
  • Project management experience would be highly desirable, although not essential, along with a scientific degree/equivalent and ideally some work experience in flavour and/or fragrance development, evaluation and profiling or have worked in an NPD/lab-based role within a FMCG environment.
  • Strong organisational skills will be essential to enable you to achieve results in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment as you will be supporting the flavour team in new flavour and flavour library product developments, as well as providing oversight and tracking of the team’s portfolio, budget, and resource.
  • Your well-developed communication and influencing skills will enable you to liaise effectively with both external and internal stakeholders such as core flavour suppliers, product developers, category marketing teams, regulatory, safety, and sustainability teams, ensuring compliance across our Health & Nutrition flavour portfolio and to manage and deliver product and flavour requests.

About Reckitt

Every day, in everything we do, our purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. And we have a fight on our hands. A fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right and not a privilege.