Category Activation Medical Affairs Senior Associate

City: Kingston upon Hull

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

As a Category Activation Medical Affairs Senior Associate, you will act as the key medical partner for the Pain category, supporting activation across the African region. Working at the intersection of Medical Affairs and Commercial teams, you will ensure scientific evidence is translated into relevant, impactful medical education, HCP engagement, and market activation initiatives. This newly created role offers the opportunity to shape how Medical Affairs supports a growing region while partnering closely with Global Medical Affairs, Category Activation teams and regional stakeholders.

Your responsibilities

• Serve as the primary medical liaison between regional stakeholders, e.g. Africa and Global Medical Affairs teams.

• Adapt and amplify global scientific evidence, medical content and activation plans to meet regional needs.

• Provide medical insight and scientific guidance to Category Activation, Professional Marketing and regional teams.

• Support the creation, review and approval of scientific and educational materials for healthcare professionals.

• Respond to medical and scientific enquiries from internal and external stakeholders.

• Gather regional insights and feed them into global evidence generation and medical strategy discussions.

• Collaborate with global teams on evidence dissemination, publications, congress activities and medical education initiatives.

• Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, healthcare professionals, KOLs and third-party vendors.

• Support regional training and capability-building initiatives.

• Ensure medical activities comply with relevant scientific, regulatory and compliance standards.

The experience we're looking for

• Degree in Life Sciences, Biosciences, Pharmacy, Medical Sciences or a related scientific discipline.

• Experience in Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Commercial Medical or a related healthcare or pharmaceutical function.

• Experience bridging scientific and commercial teams to support market activation and business objectives.

• Demonstrated experience developing, adapting or communicating scientific content for different audiences.

• Experience managing relationships with healthcare professionals, KOLs or external stakeholders.

• Strong scientific communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear and relevant messages.

• Experience supporting regional or international markets is advantageous.

• Experience within OTC, consumer health or pharmaceutical environments is preferred.

• PhD is a strong advantage.

• Fluent English required.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Accumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Adaptability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, Consumer Needs, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Change Leadership, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Collaborator, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Product vision and strategy development, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Predictive Analytics, 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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