Overview
R&D Senior Scientist, Flavors (Evansville, IN, US, 47701)
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 an R & D Flavor Senior Scientist your expertise will lead the way in creating the aromatic experiences embedded within our renowned products. By integrating quantitative research and consumer insights, you will be instrumental in orchestrating product innovations people love and trust. Through collaborative partnerships and a focus on the consumer, your work will directly influence, driving Reckitt's growth through authentic flavor experiences.
Your responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong Internal & external strategic partnerships including category R&D teams, marketing, insights & analytics, and Flavor Houses, to drive integration of Reckitt/MJN flavor expertise into our products, with emphasis on front end integration across the Nutrition product portfolio.
- A pro-active, entrepreneurial approach to engage with the cross-functional category leads, adopting an integrated, agile mindset, as a critical partner within our strategic planning and execution.
- Under guidance of Manager to advocate for innovative science and technology that deliver superior product solutions.
- Support end to end execution of the flavor portfolio which enhance front end innovation opportunities by optimizing the portfolio to deliver against consumer preferences and needs.
- Support new flavor development briefs for NPDs, ensuring best practice briefing principles are followed to deliver optimal flavor delivery from our Flavor House partners and internal teams.
- Ensure all flavor briefing and recommendations comply with latest Reckitt/MJN safety and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate within R&D to ensure best practice sensory, consumer and performance testing is utilized when developing and validating new flavors.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to build out best in class expertise, standardized ways of working and scale learning across the organization.
- Support local R&D flavor development, including evaluation and performance over the course of product stability, flavor ordering, coordination & maintenance of flavor information – including safety paperwork and  presentations, etc.
- Responsible for coaching and mentoring other team members to enable training and team engagement.
The experience we're looking for
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree in science, psychology, flavor or fragrance relevant discipline.
- 5 years + experience within a Flavor (or Fragrance) House and/or 5years + experience working within FMCG environment working on global brands, ideally with experience applying flavors for consumers across both developed and developing markets.
- 5 years + of proven project management experience within a cross-functional, international and multi-cultural environment.
- 5 years + flavor (or fragrance) evaluation experience ideally with food products
- Strong influencing, networking, partnership and communication skills
- Strong business experience including commercial/marketing strategy, consumer understanding and sensory testing
- Above average olfactive acuity
- No allergies, ability to test products of varying flavors to support business projects Experience in vendor management
- Must be self-motivated, autonomous, a natural leader, ability to work seamless with global team members, strong time management and prioritization skills, an influential business partner and ambitious.
- Fluent in English. Spanish and/or Thai is a plus.
- Being mobile or willing to travel.
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, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, Fragrance.
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.
Salary Range
USDÂ $97,000.00 – Â $145,000.00
Pay Transparency
The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve.If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
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.
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