Overview

R&D Quality Manager, Compliance – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, GB, HU1 1AA) 

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

The R&D Quality Manager Audit Lead leads the R&D vendor approval for the clinical and quality compliance pillar within the Europe Vendor Quality Team.  The role manages all activities associated with the audit programme and related documentation for GxPs (GCP, GVP, GMP) within R&D.  The audit team provides support to global R&D colleagues, providing SME audit support when required.
The role may also be required to support supplier qualification and audit activities for the wider European Vendor Quality Team, Corporate Audits and related compliance activities for R&D Hull.

Hiring Manager – Jo Hodges
Closing Date – 9th February 2026

Location – Hybrid role, based in Hull with regular site presence.

Your responsibilities

  • Management of External Compliance activities for R&D for all GxP and Core Reckitt products.
  • Ability to collaborate with the global audit network to deliver the external audit programme and approve new vendors/ suppliers to R&D.
  • Acts as an audit subject matter expert and support global R&D audit teams.
  • Provide quality support for compliance activities including deviations, change controls and risk management relating to vendor quality management.
  • Actively participates in quality culture and continuous improvement activities.
  • Support the technology transfer process from R&D to commercial manufacture.
  • Proactively monitors and responds to changes in guidance and legislation issued by Regulatory Authorities.
  • Provides data and information to communicate supplier and supplier quality management performance at Quality Management reviews
  • Requires travel to global Reckitt sites and 3rd party vendors.
  • Ensure data integrity compliance.
  • Support and ensure GxP systems are compliant to global policy and procedures and regulatory standards.

The experience we're looking for

  • Trained and experienced lead auditor.
  • Degree in a scientific discipline is required.
  • Experience of working in a Quality environment for product development is essential.
  • An appreciation and understanding of global medicines regulations is required.
  • Previous line management experience is required.
  • Ability to work cross functionally with global R&D teams and form collaborative relationships.
  • Experience across a broad range of therapeutic areas and product classifications is desired.
  • Ability to critically apprise Quality impacting regulatory guidance and legislation for internal action.
  • Strong project management and organisational skills.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

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.

 

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