GCMA Senior Manager IWPC - Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DTWe 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 R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.
About the role
As a GCMA Manager you will work on the iconic global brands, within Reckitt\\\\\\\'s intimate Wellness portfolio and be responsible for all aspects of medical affairs for the lubricants portfolio in Durex and KY. As part of a category development team within R&D, you will report to the Global Medical Science Lead.
Your responsibilities
- Participating in the development and execution of ro-bust medical strategies to deliver category plans for the relevant brand/project portfolio, including over-sight of team resource and budget.
- Driving education and understanding of the intimate wellness category in the wider business, by providing input to internal / external training, acting as an expert consultant to regional colleagues, and supporting the onboarding of new colleagues.
- Representing Medical Sciences as a subject matter ex-pert in cross-functional planning and project meetings.
- Collaboratively proposing, critiquing, and building on project ideas that can deliver meaningful science-led, consumer focused innovation.
- Leading and/or overseeing the design and conduct of systematic data reviews and generation of novel evidence as required to enable product and claims innovation and maintain the current portfolio of products.
- Managing delivery of medical aspects of regulated documents. These could include but are not limited to; clinical evaluation reports (CERs), integrated summaries of product or ingredient safety and efficacy, general briefing documents, feasibility assessments for new product development or acquisitions, switch ap-plications, and clinical documents such as investigators\\\\\\\' brochures, evidence briefs and study protocols, subject consent, or assessment forms.
- Supporting the medical science team and marketing colleagues in translating scientific data into commercially relevant consumer claims and scientific and medical content and communication.
- Planning and managing/executing the delivery of scientific communications consistent with the category strategy, including peer reviewed papers and conference abstracts.
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with relevant external stakeholder groups and key opinion leaders to enhance the company\\\\\\\'s knowledge base and enable independent advisory and advocacy work, such as running steering group or advisory board meetings.
- Contributing towards the continuous improvement of functional excellence and productivity programs within Medical Sciences; acting as a role model to colleagues in Medical Sciences and the wider R&D community.
The experience we\\\\\\\'re looking for
- Degree in Natural sciences, Pharmacy or Medicine.
- Demonstrable subject matter expertise in an aspect or aspects of sexual health, wellbeing or intimate personal care
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant health related discipline
- Significant/relevant experience in Medical Affairs, preferably in the medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic or consumer health industry.
- Experience with the clinical evaluation of medical devices and/or cosmetics regulations in at least one market or region.
- Experience of managing external KOL relationships to meet commercially relevant objectives.
- Experience as a practicing healthcare professional (HCP) or relevant allied HCP.
- Demonstrable application of scientific expertise to drive commercially relevant initiatives or innovation.
- Proven ability to generate, analyse and interpret scientific and clinical data, with knowledge and experience of scientific research methodology.
- Experience in the design of clinical studies and the regulatory requirements for the conduct of clinical research is desirable.
- Experience in preparing, reviewing and editing medical or scientific documents. (e.g., published manuscripts, regulated scientific documents, demonstrable experience in medical writing, systematic review, and clinical data reporting or appraisal)
- Profound user knowledge of all standard IS applications (MS-Office etc).
- Experience in new product development, preferably for multiple geographical regions.
- Commercially minded and able to collaborate with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders
- Good objective led communication and presentation skills, with the ability to analyse and summarise complex data into a compelling, audience-appropriate, narrative.
- Creative, self-starter, with demonstrable ability to manage multiple projects and products whilst ensuring timely delivery of medical science activities within budget and aligned to category plans.
- Resilient, open to challenge and willing to challenge others for the good of a shared goal.
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.
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