Aerosol Manager, Essential Home (Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, GB, HU1 1AA)

Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. 

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

​Research & Development​

In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Project Managers and Regulatory professionals – all working to make a house your home. 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.

About the role

The role is to lead both innovation and maintenance of the global aerosol product portfolio within Essential Home. Core responsibilities include feasibility scoping and testing of new technologies, alongside training, specialist testing and technical support of aerosol projects within global R&D category and Operations teams. Reporting to the R&D structure but offering full cross functional support for the Essential Home business.

This role acts as the key technical aerosol expert providing support internally for our global teams as well as acting as a key point of contact for our external partners.

Your responsibilities

• Lead aerosol product and packaging development, from early-stage concept through feasibility, testing, and launch, in collaboration with brand and technical teams. 
• Provide technical support to global R&D, supply chain, procurement, and marketing functions on aerosol-related projects.
• Evaluate and manage suppliers, working with procurement to assess innovation capabilities and technical support, especially for sustainable and cost-effective solutions.
• Oversee aerosol testing and pilot operations, ensuring internal standards, procedures, and facilities are maintained and improved.
• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for aerosol technologies, supporting investigations, risk assessments, and cross-functional training.
• Represent the company in trade associations, staying informed on global aerosol legislation and contributing to industry standards.
• Line manage direct reports, supporting their development and contributing to capability building across teams. 

The experience we're looking for

• Strong technical expertise in aerosol packaging, formulations, propellants, and testing methods.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects, from concept to implementation, including supplier engagement and factory scale-up.
• Knowledge of global regulations and industry standards related to aerosols, with experience in SOP development and EHS compliance.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across departments and regions, with a proactive approach to innovation and problem-solving.
• Leadership experience, including mentoring or managing team members and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, 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.