Senior Product Regulatory Affairs Leader

4 weeks ago


Middlesbrough UK, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom VRS Regulatory Full time

A rare opportunity to take a Senior Management role and head up a global chemical product regulatory affairs team at a global chemical manufacturing business. We are looking for a commercially and strategically minded leader who has a passion for regulation and legislation governing chemical products.


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

  • Create and deliver strategy for the defence of product portfolio globally.
  • Create and manage the product safety testing program for all products/components that ensures regulators get the data they need
  • Ensure the product portfolio is correctly registered with all chemical safety frameworks (eg 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 buy access to chemical databases and registration licenses.
  • Represent the company in external regulatory organisations
  • Track 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 are equipped with the necessary expertise.
  • Provide leadership, advice, guidance and strategic input to all key team decisions.


We are looking for an experienced chemical industry leader who has 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 able to constructively challenge and to 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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