Ingredients Governance Manager

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team's purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action-oriented. With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

In Research and Development, we’re full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals – all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. We continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance. We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality. The size of our organisation means you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be the Regulatory Advocacy lead on API legislation and scrutiny globally, combining with providing Management leadership for Regulatory Intelligence (RI) – one of the core Regulatory capabilities critical to Essential Home business. Your role will be to develop the EH position and external advocacy strategy, by anticipating and responding to (i) new/revised legislation proposals impacting our medicines and APIs, and (ii) Regulator/NGO/HCP/Academic scrutiny of API safety (human and environmental), that can lead onto changes in legislation, industry guidelines and/or HCP and consumer trust. You will need to be able to quickly evaluate the potential impact on EH products, by working closely RAS Category Leads and x-functional partners, for currently marketed products, as well as the ongoing and future product innovations. You will also help x-functional teams (e.g. Pods) with scenario planning (possible routes of regulation) to aid choice of APIs and route-to-market strategies.

This position plays an essential role in leading and delivering advocacy strategies for EH policy priorities, and in building new regulatory capabilities:

• Develop and execute advocacy strategies for EH RAS Policy Priorities.
• Develop Global advocacy strategies in partnership with RAS Category Strategy and IMEX teams.
• Lead x-functional advocacy task forces.
• Participate in Category POD teams on relevant projects.
• Influence external stakeholders and policy makers through compelling and well-defined advocacy strategies, to fight for proportionate regulation, based on robust and risk-based science.
• Ensure Policy Priority Heatmaps, Summary Sheets, Position Papers and Advocacy Masterplans are in place for all policy priorities, as well as readily available to all RAS IMEX teams.
• Lead ISG to develop and execute advocacy strategies on EH APIs.
• Coordinate to ensure that the appropriate SMEs are included in Category PODs, and represent EH in industry association committees, to influence and build credibility externally, in line with business strategies.
• Become a trainer for the "Advocacy Fundamentals Training Programme" developed by our team, develop and maintain up-to-date advocacy toolkits, facilitate cross-country / regional best practices and ensure compliance to relevant, internal processes/SOPs.
• Provide management leadership and work closely within the wider Regulatory, Quality, R&D, Supply and Commercial functions to ensure accurate impact-assessment of external regulatory changes, and timely implementation of those changes.
• Be accountable to establish robust tracking processes, systems and fit-for-purpose KPIs that will effectively and efficiently facilitate the impact assessment and implementation of external regulatory changes by the cross-functional teams.

Qualifications:

• Educated to honours degree level in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of regulatory experience.
• A solid track record of Regulatory Affairs experience with strategic and operational regulatory experience.
• Strong skillsets and experience in project management are highly desirable.
• Able to manage multiple activities simultaneously whilst maintaining good quality of work and achieve deadlines.
• Good attention to detail, with excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to digest and translate regulatory/technical requirements for the business.

Skills for Success:

• Portfolio Management
• Commercial Awareness
• Business Partnership
• Collaboration
• Partnership building
• Collaborator
• R&D
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Ability to challenge the status quo
• Propose improvement
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Business Strategy
• Objective Setting
• Consumer Needs
• Change Leadership
• Task Execution Under Pressure
• Makes strategic Business Decisions
• Adapt to changes in technological development plans
• Creative Direction
• Business Acumen
• Relationship Management