Research&Development

We continue to make significant investments in R&D to deliver innovations that satisfy or anticipate consumer preferences and generate growth for the business across all categories. The main focus of this investment is in new category products, but we also conduct R&D into our conventional cigarette innovations.

It's a world we can explore together.

We have an extensive scientific research programme in a broad spectrum of scientific fields including molecular biology, toxicology and chemistry. Our main R&D Centre is based in Southampton in the UK, supported by R&D teams based in many locations around the world. The research you conduct could be undertaken in collaboration with global third parties.

You could be using a wide range of analytical techniques and specialised laboratory technology to test our products to ensure high standards of consumer safety and product quality. Or developing a framework of scientific tests to assess the reduced-risk potential of NGPs relative to smoking cigarettes. This might include testing everything from how consumers use a product and the content of the vapour it produces, to the biological impact of the vapour on cells in laboratory tests and, ultimately, the likely impact of the availability of that product on consumer health.

We'll place real value on your robust, evidence-based and independent scientific findings so your work has a positive impact. But it's not just what you do that counts, but how you do it. We will always be transparent about our science. We publish details of our scientific research and submit the results of our research to peer-reviewed scientific journals, irrespective of the findings. We also contribute to debates around tobacco harm reduction at conferences and in publications and reports.

Whatever your professional focus, we'll offer you all the support and development you need – from the very first day you join us.