Science jobs in Kingston upon Hull

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.

About the role

This role sits within a dynamic and high-performing team responsible for delivering compliance projects across the Sore Throat Portfolio. The successful candidate will coordinate and support a range of R&D activities required to implement net revenue protection projects, including raw material changes, manufacturing process changes, analytical method development and validation, and medicinal licence maintenance.

This position offers a broad development opportunity for an early-career scientist to gain hands-on experience across multiple R&D disciplines. The role includes significant laboratory-based work, exposure to formulation development, analytical sciences, technical project leadership and regulatory dossier authoring. The associate will have the opportunity to build both technical expertise and project management skills while working within a cross-functional environment.

Your responsibilities

• Provide technical and analytical support for net revenue protection projects on medicinal products
• Plan, execute, and interpret laboratory studies to support product and process changes, method development, validation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement activities.
• Develop and validate analytical methods in line with ICH Q2(R2), ICH Q14, internal procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Support formulation and product development activities, including generating and interpreting data to support project decisions.
• Support technical workstreams and project activities to ensure delivery against agreed timelines and quality standards.
• Author and review technical protocols, reports, regulatory dossiers, and supporting documentation in accordance with current scientific, regulatory, and company requirements.
• Collaborate with global R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Supply, and Manufacturing teams to successfully deliver projects.
• Support investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution of technical challenges arising during project execution.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and support compliance, health & safety, and audit readiness activities across the wider team.

The experience we're looking for

• Degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biological Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
• Experience within an R&D, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or FMCG environment
• Strong scientific curiosity and a willingness to learn across multiple technical disciplines.
• Ability to analyse data, solve problems, and apply scientific reasoning to technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented with a focus on quality and compliance.

The skills for success

R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry.

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.