Senior Product Stewardship – Regulatory Specialist

Role Overview

• Monitoring regulatory environment for implementation of new legislation in areas of sale and ensuring maintained compliance with any changes.
• Auditing compliance of existing formulations against regulations of countries of current sale.
• Anticipating potential future regulatory action that could impact the business to aid planning.
• Act as company expert on consumer regulations and advise the business on measures necessary for compliance with these.
• Act as company expert on EMEA packaging regulations and advise the business on measures necessary for compliance with these.
• Assessing regulatory conditions of new markets prior to entry with focus on car repair.
• Monitoring impact of raw material classification changes and formulation updates on product SDS and labels.
• Providing input to the artwork generation process to ensure that product labels and technical literature meet legal minimum standards from a regulatory perspective and that technical claims can be justified by data.
• Responding to formulation disclosure requests, e.g. to government competent authorities.

Requirements

• Ideally around five years’ experience in a role involving regulatory compliance in a chemical manufacturing organisation preferably in the coatings industry.
• Knowledge of key regulatory drivers of the global chemical industry, e.g. REACH and VOC regulations for both industrial and consumer markets
• Degree qualified in a relevant subject or with comparable industrial experience: numerate, analytical and IT literate.
• Good team player with strong interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft Office products, numerate, analytical and IT literate capable to work with database systems.
• Good English communication skills.