Associate Director - Regulatory

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

The Regulatory Affairs function has a corporate role enabling our products to be freely sold globally and is an integral part of the Global Product Stewardship (GPS) Department. The Department ensures that the portfolio of our products is developed and remains in compliance with the Cosmetic Products Regulations and any other applicable regulations in the EMEA markets with a focus on EU/UK and Sub-Saharan Africa, regarding safety, performance, and labeling.

The Associate Director role focuses on enabling efficient regulatory affairs operations for the specific markets as well as providing support to the senior leadership in identifying relevant changes in regulations concerning the finished product, chemicals/ingredients, packaging, and digital transformation. This is a pivotal role within the Global Product Stewardship Department to ensure continued improvement of processes and team development enabling delivery of results against the Department and cross-functional goals.

The successful candidate will be working across the entire portfolio of Estee Lauder Companies brands and product categories focusing on:

• Managing various regulatory related queries received from authorities and our business partners in the markets.
• Taking the leadership role in setting up a program of comprehensive procedures, training materials, and work instructions based on the internal GPS transformation and external factors like regulatory changes.
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert in the relevant field to enable the launch of new product categories e.g. Sun care products, Medical devices, Aerosols.
• Engaging with cross-functional teams within ELC and brands to support corporate initiatives in developing the next generation of prestige beauty brands across all product categories.
• Directly responsible for developing the relevant development and training plan and supervising the roll out across the team.
• Liaising with market leaders to be fully aware of upcoming brand expansion plans to ensure availability of sufficient capacity and capability to enable those goals.
• Clearly and comprehensively communicating to senior leadership regulatory changes across ingredients, product, labelling, packaging, and potential impact on business goals.
• Representing ELC key priorities and goals in various Trade Associations and stakeholders groups to mitigate the risk of any upcoming regulatory developments.

Experience in identifying direct business impact due to regulatory developments across chemicals/cosmetic ingredients like pigments, UV filters, fragrance ingredients will be an advantage. Experience in identifying regulatory risks across broad chemical regulations is highly desired.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Possesses minimum 10 years of experience in Regulatory, Safety, Toxicology, Product Development.
• Demonstrates track record of applying Cosmetic Product Regulations, CLP, REACH restrictions in the new product launches and across existing portfolio of cosmetic products, home care products, medical devices.
• Demonstrates track record of successful engagements with authorities across EU and UK, resolving complex queries or investigations across multiple product categories. Experience from any other jurisdictions is highly desired.
• Proven ability to apply judgment and risk assessment approach when implementing new regulatory obligations, policies, and industry standards.
• Desired experience of working with stakeholders across various levels of seniority.
• Proven track record of leading and developing successful teams.
• Experience within a global, multi-category organisation will be an advantage.
• Experience in successful engagement across Trade Associations or stakeholders’ groups.
• Experience in identifying direct business impact due to regulatory developments across chemicals/cosmetic ingredients like pigments, UV filters, fragrance ingredients will be an advantage.
• Desired experience in developing and launching medical devices, home care products, or chemical mixtures.
• Degree in Biology/Biochemistry/Toxicology/Chemistry preferred.

Qualifications

• Excellent project management and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong analytical skills with great attention to detail.
• Excellent problem solving, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Team player, able to build, foster, and nurture relationships with members of cross-functional teams and across external engagements.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage effectively with various levels of seniority and stakeholders.
• Applied knowledge of chemistry/biochemistry/toxicology in broad cosmetic/home care/medical devices products.
• Additional professional qualifications are desired.
• Fully proficient in Windows Office.
• Excellent team leader, able to set a clear development plan for the team members.