Reckitt Essential Home - who we are
Home to the world's best loved and trusted household brands like Air Wick, Cillit Bang or Calgon. Essential Home is an exciting, agile and entrepreneurial business, truly focused upon delivering great results and value creation. We ‘Make a House Your Home’, through trusted products that transform people’s homes into clean, fresh and inviting spaces. Each day, we strive to make the highest quality air care, laundry, surface and pest products for our customers.
Our culture is built on action, accountability, local ownership and care for each other. We are a flat and effective organization, well connected for faster decision making, leveraging our global scale and resourced in the Markets to win with consumers and customers. Our structure is agile, leveraging shared services to take on transactional tasks freeing up our expertise to focus on the impactful opportunities. We have a shared passion for delivery, a strong sense of ownership as we will all be founders of this business. Importantly, we will care for each other as there will be challenges every day, but we will all be exceptionally proud of what we create together.
Regulatory
Driving innovation and protecting our customers, our Regulatory team is critical to ensure we keep up with complex legislation across multiple categories. Ultimately this allows us to continue making people’s lives better.
About the role
As a Regulatory Affairs Associate within the Essential Home organization, you’ll be at the forefront of our innovation and compliance efforts. You’ll grow your career in a role that provides a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on experience within a dynamic, collaborative environment. The Regulatory Affairs and Safety Associate DACH & Nordics is responsible for the smooth launch of new products of its brands and provides appropriate regulatory support for new projects, including global enquiries, as well as for ensuring compliance throughout the whole product life cycle.
Your responsibilities
* Responsible for all aspects of filing registrations, maintaining compliance throughout the product lifecycle and performing related invoicing tasks
* Collaborate with relevant local and global teams and the commercial teams in the German speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to establish and implement regulatory strategies, within the agreed timeframes to execute the business plan for the commercialization of household cleaning and care products
* Executing global strategies locally, incl. artwork and advertising review from a regulatory perspective
* Safety Data Sheet plausibility review
* Review labels according to guidelines
* R eview that regulated claims are appropriately supported and provide guidance from a regulatory perspective
* Represent the regulatory function as a leading and knowledgeable partner in business development and support the brand development from a regulatory perspective
* Collaborate with external partners to ensure that regulatory issues are properly managed and resolved
* Coordinate the resolution of regulatory issues affecting household cleaning and care products
* Maintenance of internal regulatory administrative data
* Perform tasks related to trade association activities
* Interpret and implement regulations and guidelines
* Participation in change control procedures
The experience we're looking for
Experience
* Proven track record with at least 1 year in chemical regulatory affairs
Education:
* University degree, preferably in Chemistry or related life science disciplines
Language Skills:
* Fluency (native-speaker level) in German
* Fluency in English (at least B2)
Personal Skills:
* High attention to detail
* Reliability and ownership
* Proficient in multitasking, executing tasks under pressure, and making objective decisions when faced with complex issues
* Knowledge of regulatory environment and processes in local markets that apply for Essential Home products (incl. biocides)
* Results-oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivated hands-on spirit
* Acute business acumen accompanied by commercial awareness
The skills for success
Task Execution Under Pressure, Attention to detail, Commercial Awareness, Accountability, Collaboration and Partnership Building, Ability to translate regulatory requirements into relevant actions, Adaptability, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement
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.