Senior Compliance Leader
About the role
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.
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 Senior Compliance Leader, you will play a critical role in ensuring manufacturing operations meet the highest standards of quality, regulatory compliance, and Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP). Working within the Quality function, you will lead compliance activities across the site, drive continuous improvement of the Quality Management System, and support regulatory inspections, customer audits, and internal audit programmes. This is a highly influential role requiring strong cross-functional leadership, helping to minimise business risk while ensuring products are manufactured safely, compliantly, and in line with both regulatory requirements and company standards.
Your responsibilities
- Lead and maintain site compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards
- Manage the site's internal audit programme and compliance risk assessment activities
- Coordinate external regulatory inspections and third-party customer audits
- Identify compliance gaps, quality risks, and areas of non-conformance, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
- Drive the completion of Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) across operational functions
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality Control, Engineering and Supply teams to embed a strong compliance culture
- Provide expert compliance data and documentation to regulatory authorities and global stakeholders
- Deliver coaching and training on cGMP requirements, audit readiness, and quality problem solving tool
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of the Quality Management System
- Support the development and performance of compliance team members and deputise for the Compliance Manager when required
The experience we're looking for
- Significant experience within a regulated pharmaceutical, healthcare, FMCG, or medical device manufacturing environment
- Strong working knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements
- Experience leading or participating in regulatory inspections and customer audits
- Demonstrated expertise in Quality Management Systems and compliance frameworks
- Proven experience conducting audits, risk assessments, and compliance investigations
- Knowledge of European and international regulatory requirements governing pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Experience managing CAPA processes and driving sustainable compliance improvements
- Ability to analyse quality and compliance data to identify trends and mitigate risk
- Previous experience leading, mentoring, or managing compliance and quality teams.Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across multiple business functions
The skills for success
Regulatory Compliance, GMP ExpertiseInternal, External Audit Management Risk Assessment, Risk Management CAPA Management Quality Management Systems (QMS)Root Cause Analysis & Problem SolvingLeadership & Team DevelopmentStakeholder Influencing & CommunicationRegulatory Inspection ReadinessContinuous Improvement & Change 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.