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 organisation, 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.

​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. We 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

We're in search of a Commercial Quality Senior Associate (DACH & Nordics) to join the team – where innovation and science converge to make a real-world impact. Based in Heidelberg, you'll contribute to the growth of our trusted product portfolio, ensuring the highest standards of quality. If you thrive in a dynamic atmosphere, speak German and English fluently and are looking for a role where your actions directly contribute to the company's success, we would love to see your application.

Your responsibilities

• Support culture of continuous improvement in quality and compliance activities through proactive communication, partnering and training in DACH and Nordics Commercial Unit
• Tracking of non-conformities, complaints and CAPA
• Tracking and trending of KPIs and regular reporting with improvement plans
• Support deployment of the Global SOPs and manage local QMS
• Providing training, education and guidance on Quality requirements to the BUs and 3PLs
• Responsible to self-assess or audit the Reckitt Quality Manual annually in order to ensure compliance and risks.
• Support in audit planning, audit performance and follow up of actions for internal, external, and third-party audits.
• Prepare technical agreements and support review.
• Support in quality projects and global deployments
• To be the first contact for 3PLs for any Quality or Supply Related topics
• Supporting day to day quality activities and issues

The experience we're looking for

Personal skills:

• Understanding of Regulatory, Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Distribution Practice and ISO requirements
• Results-oriented, entrepreneurial, and self-motivating personality
• Adaptable and collaborative nature, eager to work with cross-functional partners and multiple stakeholders
• Influencing skills in areas with no direct reporting authority
• Strong analytical ability
• Strong tracking and reporting ability
• Strong Relationship builder and ability to communication effectively across all functions
• Ability to challenge constructively and confidently
• Commercial understanding of marketing strategy, planning issues, budgeting, priority setting, project management
• Good presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload
• Openness to change and ability to think out of the box

Education and professional experience:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a quality compliance function

Software skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Knowledge of Veeva Vault is considered as a plus

Language skills:

• Both English and German fluently (minimum C1 proficiency)

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator

What we offer

Equality