Global Quality & Regulatory Director in Goole

Global Quality & Regulatory Director role at Croda. Croda is a purpose-led FTSE100 company delivering innovative and sustainable ingredients for the Consumer Care and Life Sciences sectors, with a global presence in 37 countries and over 6,000 employees.

Reporting to the President of Operations, this role shapes and delivers Croda’s global Quality and Regulatory strategy, with a particular focus on the Pharmaceutical business. The position blends high-level strategic direction with hands-on delivery and drives a progressive and mature quality culture across all regions.

This is a role where you will be influencing, often without direct line responsibility, from shop floor to Executive committee level; prior experience leading large regional or global quality strategies in the Pharma sector is essential.

• Design, implement, and continuously evolve Croda’s global quality and regulatory strategy to position Croda as a trusted partner and drive improvements in product quality, compliance, safety, and customer experience.
• Anticipate regulatory changes in the Consumer Care and Life Sciences markets and leverage these insights to influence business strategy across the product lifecycle from innovation to end-of-life.
• Represent Croda externally with key multinational customers, government bodies, and trade associations, advocating for Croda’s interests and defending technologies and products.
• Act as the global functional figurehead, influencing across all levels from shop floor to regional leadership teams and Croda’s Executive Committee.
• Provide global leadership during product-related crises (Level 2+), including recalls and critical compliance issues.
• Lead and inspire global quality and regulatory teams, often without direct line responsibility, building a high-performance culture aligned with Croda’s values.
• Develop strong internal networks with regional leadership, fostering trust, empathy, and collaboration.
• Deliver corporate assurance for compliance with internal policies and external standards (ISO, GMP, Product Safety, Animal Testing, etc.).
• Maintain and manage corporate resources and skills, partnering with local and regional teams to build global talent pipelines in quality and regulatory expertise (GMP, toxicology, environment, regulatory).

• Prior experience in regional or global quality leadership roles, with deep knowledge of regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical sector (e.g., GMP, API).
• Resilient and collaborative, able to shape and execute strategy while embedding accountability to deliver multi-year objectives.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance commercial and technical considerations to manage risk and reward in product quality, safety, and compliance.
• High level of emotional intelligence, skilled at engaging senior leadership and local Quality/Regulatory teams to embrace group strategy.
• Authentic and compassionate in communication style, capable of articulating a compelling global strategy narrative and leading through a matrix organisation.
• Excellent people leader who can identify, coach and mentor talent across the quality and regulatory function.
• Highly adaptable, with proven ability to lead across diverse businesses and regions, respecting cross-cultural sensitivities, particularly in change environments.

The ideal candidate will be based within a reasonable commuting distance of our Head Office in Snaith, East Yorkshire. However, we are open to considering UK-based remote working arrangements for the right individual.

At Croda, we believe our people are our difference. We are people-led, driven by the desire to do good and deliver value, guided by our values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together. We are committed to building an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse organisation with innovation and customer focus underpinning all that we do.

Croda is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.