Supplier Quality Associate City: Eure-et-Loir **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 ! **Our Chartres plant** For over 60 years, the Reckitt Chartres industrial site has been dedicated to the production of Personale care and Skin care products. Today, the Chartres site has 9 manufacturing processes, 19 packaging lines, sales in nearly 50 countries and 140 million units produced each year, across our 1,000 product references. **About the role** Reporting to the Quality Director, Corporate Audit and Vendor Management (EU). The role of the Supplier Quality Associate is to ensure the quality compliance of suppliers who supply Reckitt with materials or products for the Chartres site and to support the audit network for the EU. The scope includes existing and new suppliers, as well as external manufacturing organisations. **Your responsibilities** + Act as lead auditor to plan, organise and carry out new external audits of manufacturing organisations, audits of new suppliers and routine compliance audits of materials for the Chartres site (raw materials, semi-finished products, components, finished products) and monitor audit actions through to completion. + Organise formal meetings with suppliers + Summarise the data required to obtain an overall view of the site's supplier performance and the most critical points by gathering information from the various production groups. + Leading meetings, taking minutes, following up corrective actions, informing the various parties involved (production, purchasing, etc.) + Participate in risk assessment studies (Amdec, etc.) and change control for all new packaging and raw materials projects. + Support audits of the Chartres site (external and internal) when questions arise about the quality of supplier management. + Draw up Technical Agreements for suppliers of raw materials and components, as well as audit reports, and publish them on time. + Ensure that supplier activities are fully compliant with regulatory and Reckitt guidelines to minimise risks to consumers, the business and the brand. + Ensure that all local supplier management procedures comply with Reckitt's global procedures and policies. + Complete monthly supplier quality KPIs. + Suggest quality improvements and training to suppliers, where necessary, to improve their performance. + Work closely with Purchasing, Plant Operations and other site QA teams to resolve quality issues with suppliers that may affect consumer safety, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction and operational performance. + Support the wider audit network and carry out local audits across the EU + Ensure that specific supplier controls are implemented where necessary and carry out supplier audits. **The experience we're looking for** You have a master’s degree in quality with experience in supplier management and auditing in an industrial environment. Preferred Lead Auditor qualified to perform industrial audits You will be familiar with the regulatory requirements, rules and directives of a cosmetics production site in terms of control, manufacturing and packaging. Fluent English and French required - Frequent business travel within the EU. Job location in Chartres. **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. **Job Segment:** Counseling, Nutrition, Healthcare