Senior Product Regulatory Affairs Director

4 weeks ago


Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom VRS Regulatory Full time
Job Description

A unique opportunity to lead a global chemical product regulatory affairs team at a leading chemical manufacturing business. We are seeking a commercially and strategically minded leader who has a passion for regulation and legislation governing chemical products.

Your remit is to create and drive the strategy for product safety and regulatory compliance across the business. You will:

  • Develop and implement a strategy for the defence of the product portfolio globally.
  • Oversee the product safety testing program for all products/components to ensure regulators receive the necessary data.
  • Ensure the product portfolio is correctly registered with all chemical safety frameworks, including REACH, in the UK, EU, Turkey, Korea, India, Taiwan, and US.
  • Deliver responsibilities as lead registrant for REACH.
  • Manage large-scale programs of scientific testing and access chemical databases and registration licenses.
  • Represent the company in external regulatory organisations.
  • Monitor global developments in chemicals regulation, including hazard classification in the EU, USA, and APAC.
  • Provide guidance and direction to leadership teams on product regulatory and safety issues.
  • Grow and develop the Regulatory/Product Stewardship team to ensure they have the necessary expertise.
  • Provide leadership, advice, guidance, and strategic input to all key team decisions.

We are looking for an experienced chemical industry leader with knowledge and passion for chemical regulation and legislation. You are likely to be from a technical, regulatory, or legal background with specific knowledge of global chemical regulations/legislation. You must be commercially and strategically minded, able to guide and lead a highly experienced team of regulatory experts.

You must be an excellent communicator, have strong influencing skills, good relationship-building skills, and be able to constructively challenge and effectively lead and implement the business regulatory strategy.

Key Skills: Management, leadership, chemical regulatory affairs, chemical legislation, sustainability, registrations, hazard communication, product defence, representations, trade associations, consortia, strategy, commercial thinking.

VRS Regulatory is the Regulatory Affairs and Risk Assessment division of specialist scientific recruiter VRS. We focus on recruitment in Regulatory Affairs, Registrations, REACH, CLP, SDS Authoring, Product Safety, Compliance, Risk Assessment, Regulatory Toxicology, Regulatory Ecotoxicology, and Environmental Fate in the chemicals, agrochemicals, and biocides sectors.



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