Associate Regulatory Compliance Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct regulatory compliance assessments for new product development (NPD) projects within existing category pillars, and provide support to the team on other projects as required.
• Cook up regulatory assessments and tests for our formulations.
• Create and maintain product and market specific regulatory documentation and information, liaising with suppliers and other relevant third parties as required.
• Research regulatory requirements for new products, new product categories and new markets as required, presenting summarized results and solutions to challenges to line manager.
• Review product artwork and marketing material for use in various countries and markets to ensure regulatory compliance and industry best practice.
• Lead the raw material information assessment program, obtaining key information from suppliers, assessing impact to new and existing products and ensuring raw material data is maintained.
• Support submission and recertification processes across customer specific 3rd party systems and services (eg. WERCS, UL compliance audits, etc.).
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of emerging technical and regulatory issues within the geographical areas of responsibility.
• Monitor, interpret, and communicate regulatory risks impacting products and strategies to leadership.
• Complete customer regulatory surveys and questionnaires.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a life science, regulatory affairs or related discipline.
• Experience and Background: Minimum 5 years’ experience in the consumer product regulatory discipline. Strong working knowledge of US and Canadian regulatory requirements relating to chemical-based consumer products, preferably adhesives, coatings, paints, craft, DIY and similar formulated products. Experience in other global markets would be advantageous but not essential. Experience supporting regulatory compliance for formulated chemical-based consumer products, including raw material review, product compliance documentation, and a sound understanding of hazard communication and classification principles.
• Specific Skills: Flexible, adaptable and able to quickly assimilate, interpret and apply new information. Ability to interrogate legislation and data, interpret potential business impacts and support the development of mitigation strategies. Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, with demonstrable experience of multi-project working. Attention to detail. Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present to all levels. Able to adapt to new information and new situations with confidence. IT literate with experience in the usage of the Microsoft Office suite of products.