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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.\nJoin us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.\nResearch & Development\nIn 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.\nWe 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.\nThe 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.\nAbout the role\nAs a Formulation Associate, you will play a key role in developing and delivering innovation pipelines, transforming consumer, technical and scientific insights into successful product solutions. Working within a cross-functional R&D environment, you will lead formulation development from concept through scale-up and launch, balancing technical excellence, risk management and speed to market. You will also contribute to category expertise, intellectual property creation and continuous innovation to drive business growth.\nPlease note that this is a fixed-term contract (12-month maternity cover).\nYour responsibilities\nCreation, development and delivery of category pipeline(s)\nLeads assigned innovation projects, ensuring robust technical and consumer insights, clear product success criteria, effective risk management, and alignment of formulation development activities.\nDrives technical input into the innovation pipeline through concept development, collaboration with R&D and external innovation teams, and competitive benchmarking.\nSupports formulation development from feasibility to factory scale-up, ensuring milestone delivery, risk mitigation, technology transfer, and third-party product due diligence.\nEnsure compliance with regulations, quality and health and safety requirements for all formulation activities and team members.\nSupport creation of new ownable Intellectual Property within the category.\nTechnical leadership within the cross functional matrix\nSupport the cross functional teams to deliver the allocated projects in partnership with cross-functional team (inc. marketing) and building and justifying the product development specifications.\nPartner with category analytical team and formulation process sciences team to drive product development from TT2 through to on market launch.\nSupport the cross functional teams to build technical risk assessment and mitigation plans for R&D manager sign off.\nThe experience we're looking for\nApproximately 2 years of experience on a similar position.\nExperience of delivering development projects (experience within an OTC Healthcare environment an advantage).\nHands-on laboratory experience in formulation, product development or related scientific disciplines.\n\nThe skills for success\nDegree, preferably Science, Technology, Engineering, Chemistry, Biopharmaceutical or mathematics-based subject. \nKnowledge of OTC formulation product development process.\nThe capability to define, evaluate and communicate risks and the associated mitigation plans.\nCommunication and influencing skills.\nAbility to build strong networks across a matrix organisation.\nComfortable working independently and partnering with cross functional teams within a matrix organisation.\nWhat we offer\nWith 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.\nWe 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. 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