Head of Consumer Safety, Essential Home (Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT)
1 day ago
Hounslow
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. 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 Research and Development, 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. The Consumer Safety function within Essential Home has the responsibility to ensure consumers’ safety for all Essential Home’s products. It ensures the application of human and environmental risk assessment and the communication of issues that may impact consumer safety or regulatory toxicology across the Essential Home business. It delivers this through the mitigation of human harm & environmental safety risks through the safety and toxicological review of ingredients, product, packaging and articles across the product lifecycle. The function maximises and leverages toxicological and scientific expertise to facilitate innovation, drive safety by design, ensure product compliance and deliver a competitive advantage to Essential Home. The integrated Consumer Safety team has been created to drive the strategic agenda of the Department by delivering technical safety input in guidance and partnership with the business needs of Essential Home. Success in this space depends on a robust understanding of both science and commerce and will ensure Essential Home always has the consumer at the heart of all it does. • Responsible for day-to-day management of a dedicated team of hazard and exposure toxicologists and experts in toxicological risk assessment and GHS., • Provide appropriate governance and oversight to ensure delivery of timely, high quality safety output from the team., • Provide timely communications to internal teams and external agencies in relation to safety issues related to Essential Home marketed products., • As an experienced manager, you enjoy building teams and sharing your knowledge to improve results, but are also comfortable having more difficult conversations, when required. You will be accountable and responsible for the training and mentoring of toxicologists to continuously develop their technical expertise and Essential Home safety led competencies., • Will be a contributor and a subject matter expert within the safety organisation with strong business acumen and an in-depth technical knowledge of consumer FMCG products., • Follow scientific and regulatory development in the field of product safety by active participation in relevant external bodies and meetings as appropriate to pro-actively address and implement new knowledge and standards where applicable., • The individual will be responsible for ensuring that the Company safety standards are met for all existing Company products and will actively contribute to the development and maintenance of processes, policies, guidelines to drive high quality consistent deliverables., • BSc or higher degree preferred in Toxicology, Pharmacology, Chemistry, Biochemistry and/or a related science, • 15+ years extensive industry and/or regulatory experience in product stewardship, REACh, the creation of GHS documentation or, preferably, Poison Centre Notifications., • Product safety leadership experience in relevant FMCG product category(ies) (e.g. detergents, fragrances, raw materials, pesticides, biocides, cosmetics)., • Good working knowledge of the principles of GHS, Annex VIII of CLP, REACh, the creation of safety language labelling and associated guidelines., • Strong understanding of inhalation toxicology assessments and/or systems and processes used to produce PCNs and classification and labelling of, preferably, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)., • Good analytical and interpersonal skills., • Good understanding of commercial company systems and processes., • You will need to display excellent communication skills in both verbal and written forms, good business acumen and interpersonal skills, to deliver the appropriate safety expertise and competencies to support innovation of the maintenance of Essential Home products., • Ability to understand stakeholders’ timelines and objectives and a strong appreciation and understanding of the business impact of product safety., • Proven experience in conducting hazard and product safety risk assessment., • Ability to analyse and interpret data and document within a formal risk assessment. 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, 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. 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. 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.
