Regulatory Operations Senior Associate - Ingredient Compliance

Reckitt; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company in hygiene, health, and nutrition is seeking a Senior Associate in Regulatory Operations. You will ensure compliance of ingredient classifications and manage projects essential for regulatory standards. The role offers growth through exposure to various disciplines and access to a dedicated development academy.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program for mental health

Parental benefits

Global life insurance

Short-term incentives for outstanding results

Global share plans

Qualifications

• Significant prior experience in regulatory affairs with successful project delivery.
• Knowledge of creating multiple classification Regulatory Dossiers.
• Strong scientific credentials in Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, or Pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency in ingredient compliance projects and oversee implementation.
• Review and assess regulatory requirements across multiple markets.
• Collaborate with technical functions to define safety documentation requirements.

Skills

Business Strategy

Task Execution Under Pressure

Relationship Management

Innovation Processes

Education

Bachelor of Science (BSc) or Master of Science (MS) degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Job description

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

As Senior Associate Regulatory Operations Ingredient Compliance, you will be responsible for operational impact assessment on the business of ingredient classification changes driven by several initiatives, from harmonised classification changes to self-classification changes and RSL driven restrictions and bans. You will be working as a single point of contact for the projects assigned to you, for example any labelling manual changes, RAC opinion adoption via ATP process.

Execution of Ingredient Compliance is a critical and integral part of Regulatory Operations and the wider Regulatory and Safety organization and, you will be single point of contact when the projects are initiated and have oversite through the execution and end to end implementation of the changes.

As a key member of the Ingredients Compliance team within our Global Regulatory Operations Team, you will the single point of contact for conducting the impact assessment, finalising the regulatory scope and strategy for transitioning to execution teams within the RAS operations team. You’ll have oversight to ensure that all changes to Reckitt products for the assigned projects are completed in appropriate timeframes, in collaboration with the operations and local regulatory teams where necessary.

You will ensure operational excellence of your area of responsibility and will align on priorities and resourcing with the Manager Ingredients Compliance.

You will be a critical partner of cross-functional colleagues across the Regulatory Strategy and Operations and Consumer Safety and Risk Management/Vigilance, R&D, Supply, Sustainability, and Quality across Reckitt to ensure on time and ingredient compliance changes.

Hiring Manager - Munish Vohra

Closing Date - 15th July 2025

Your responsibilities

- Responsible for driving consistency in your projects and to ensure expertise is applied in line with the agreed regulatory strategy to achieve in market ingredient compliance as per planned timings.

- Reviewing and assessing a complex and diverse set of regulatory requirements and landscape overview across multiple markets to enable ingredient compliance and resiliency for all Reckitt business units.

- Ensuring you work in collaboration with other X-functional technical functions like Safety, Quality and R&D as well as other RAS areas and local teams to define safety documentation requirements and data gathering.

- Driving efficiency to deliver on Reckitt business ambitions.

- Ensuring through your professional work ethics that ingredient compliance changes to formulations and artworks are delivered as per plans and that appropriate and aligned prioritization is implemented. This includes any relevant variation or dossier and artwork updates.

You will be ensuring you:

- Provide regulatory input into data to deliver ingredient resiliency strategy through the ISG according to regulatory requirements (this applies to NPD, roll outs and post-launch product ingredients)
- Oversee implementation by operational and local regulatory teams for ingredient classification change projects, and documentation where it applies.
- Monitor ingredient classification changes, track and raise with appropriate RAS strategy and operational leads
- Build and develop relationships with key ingredient suppliers for example fragrance and flour houses

As an expert in Ingredient applications and registration activities, you will be up to date on external regulatory requirements and will work with Policy and Advocacy department to influence externally where appropriate industry led regulatory reviews and initiatives of direct relevance to Reckitt, in-line with Reckitt’s strategic vision.

The experience we're looking for

- You bring significant prior experience in regulatory affairs, with a strong track record of successful projects delivered.
- Knowledge or experience in creating multiple classification Regulatory Dossiers, through the entire portfolio and product lifecycle.
- You have the knowledge and understanding of global product development and maintenance for Reckitt products, rules, regulations, and guidelines current and emerging impacting ingredient compliance.
- You have high scientific credentials with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) / Master of Science (MS) degree in a relevant scientific discipline – such as Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Pharmacy, alongside significant applied industry experience. A PhD degree is a benefit but not a requirement.
- You are a creative, results focused, built on technical credibility, trust and strong relationships. Bias towards strategic vision, views & articulation with a credible foundation of delivery.
- Ability to consistently deliver to time, cost and quality standards in a high-pressure environment.
- Demonstrate courage and empathy and work collaborative cross-functional, through change by adopting a growth and compliance mindset.
- Strategic mindset with demonstrated ability to anticipate future trends accurately and has a broad knowledge and perspective on regulatory implications on ingredients used within formulation and fragrance and flavour portfolio’s used within Reckitt and can adapt them to regulatory operations linked with dossier generation and product development.
- Ability to translate complex regulatory information into a compelling stakeholder friendly language.
- You have strong intellectual curiosity with an appetite for exploring new and previously unchartered territories and an openness to change with ability to think out of the box
- You are passionate about sustainability, have a sustainable growth mindset and will drive solutions around Reckitt’s sustainability goals.

The skills for success Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing. 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.